SQL Contracts in Leeds

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 72 166 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 9.02% 12.47% 9.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.51% 39.90% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 112 107
10th Percentile £275 £401 £329
25th Percentile £416 £447 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £673 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £511 £475
% change year-on-year -11.98% +7.63% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £26.00
75th Percentile £21.97 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.71 - £26.00

All Programming Languages
Leeds

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 236 416 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 29.57% 31.25% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 305 389
10th Percentile £300 £412 £381
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £646
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £57.55 £19.87
25th Percentile £19.44 £61.25 £22.67
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.42% +169.23% +0.15%
75th Percentile £21.97 - £28.35
90th Percentile - £74.00 £31.69
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -70.42% +169.23% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 9 (12.50%) Apache
2 4 (5.56%) IIS
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.39%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Chatbot
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) Azure
2 11 (15.28%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.89%) AWS
4 6 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.39%) Serverless
8 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.28%) Power BI
2 11 (15.28%) Tableau
3 9 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (8.33%) Big Data
5 6 (8.33%) Flink
6 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.78%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.78%) Ingres
9 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.78%) Power Query
9 2 (2.78%) QlikView
9 2 (2.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Finance
2 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Marketing
3 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.56%) Retail
4 2 (2.78%) Automotive
5 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Analyst
3 12 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 7 (9.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) SQL BI Developer
6 5 (6.94%) SQL Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Database Marketing Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) DBA
7 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.56%) Marketing Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) HTML
2 6 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 6 (8.33%) Flask
3 4 (5.56%) Spring
3 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.17%) .NET
4 3 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.17%) Blazor
5 2 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (1.39%) CSS
6 1 (1.39%) Express.js
6 1 (1.39%) React
6 1 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (1.39%) Sass
6 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) NHS
2 4 (5.56%) Clustering
2 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Windows
2 5 (6.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.56%) VMS
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (2.78%) HPUX
4 2 (2.78%) Solaris
4 2 (2.78%) Unix
5 1 (1.39%) CentOS
5 1 (1.39%) Fedora
5 1 (1.39%) Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) Rocky
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Data Modelling
2 16 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 12 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 11 (15.28%) Analytics
5 11 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (15.28%) Code Quality
5 11 (15.28%) Conversational UI
5 11 (15.28%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (13.89%) Data Engineering
6 10 (13.89%) TDD
7 9 (12.50%) Migration
8 8 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.72%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (9.72%) Data Governance
9 7 (9.72%) DevOps
9 7 (9.72%) ETL
9 7 (9.72%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Python
2 12 (16.67%) C#
2 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) Bash
4 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.78%) Scala
4 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.39%) PHP
5 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) HDFS
4 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Graylog
2 1 (1.39%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.39%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.39%) Rsyslog
2 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) PayPal
3 4 (5.56%) Databricks
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Brio
5 2 (2.78%) IBM
5 2 (2.78%) Sun
6 1 (1.39%) Ariba
6 1 (1.39%) Concur
6 1 (1.39%) iManage
6 1 (1.39%) Intapp
6 1 (1.39%) Intel
6 1 (1.39%) JDA
6 1 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (1.39%) Snowplow
6 1 (1.39%) VMware