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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 4.40% 5.16% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 34.21% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £413 £348 £368
25th Percentile £438 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £450 £500
90th Percentile £575 £540 £540
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £37.63 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £45.08
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +163.28%
75th Percentile - - £53.84
90th Percentile - - £55.38
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +175.19%

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 19 38 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.44% 15.08% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 19
10th Percentile £438 £351 £331
25th Percentile £472 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £575
90th Percentile - £650 £615
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 10
10th Percentile - £37.55 £35.43
25th Percentile - £37.63 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £46.03 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year - -2.77% +37.22%
75th Percentile - £48.11 £55.55
90th Percentile - £51.44 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +52.04% +6.11% -8.01%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Lancashire over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 26 June 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
Blackburn - 2 £488 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (25.00%) DB2
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (12.50%) Looker
4 1 (12.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Python Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Maximo Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) CAFM
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Facilities Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Google