SQL Contracts in Lancashire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.29% 3.59% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 24.14% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile - - £381
25th Percentile £413 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £445
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +34.83% -6.32%
75th Percentile £463 - £498
90th Percentile £478 - £600
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - - £26.89
25th Percentile - £37.63 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +13.77% +2.16%
75th Percentile - - £52.99
90th Percentile - - £55.03
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +47.60%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 29 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 17.14% 14.87% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 25
10th Percentile £453 £506 £269
25th Percentile £511 £534 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +11.36% +15.79%
75th Percentile £601 £644 £600
90th Percentile £615 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 6
10th Percentile £46.25 £39.28 £17.09
25th Percentile £53.38 £45.88 £24.16
Median hourly rate £65.50 £46.18 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% +13.77% -4.49%
75th Percentile £65.75 £48.43 £50.59
90th Percentile - £49.69 £54.69
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Lancashire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Blackpool - 1 - - 4
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python