SQL Contracts in Liverpool

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 12 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 9.16% 14.72% 13.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 58.54% 61.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 29
10th Percentile £450 - £310
25th Percentile £463 £285 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £463
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -18.92% -11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £494 £545
90th Percentile £775 - £650
Merseyside median daily rate £538 £375 £490
% change year-on-year +43.33% -23.47% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.10
Median hourly rate - - £27.20
75th Percentile - - £27.30
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median hourly rate - - £27.20

All Programming Languages
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 41 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 21.37% 25.15% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 47
10th Percentile £404 £285 £300
25th Percentile £450 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £634 £494 £538
90th Percentile £685 £550 £636
Merseyside median daily rate £500 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.02% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.10
Median hourly rate - - £27.20
75th Percentile - - £27.30
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median hourly rate - - £27.20

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Liverpool

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Liverpool

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Liverpool over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Liverpool

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Liverpool

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Siebel Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) E-Business Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Siebel Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) JMS
1 6 (50.00%) SOAP
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Solaris
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) EAI
3 6 (50.00%) SDLC
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) MCSA
2 1 (8.33%) MCSE
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 6 (50.00%) Siebel
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft