SQL Contracts in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 9 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL 116 122 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 12.53% 8.04% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.28% 27.11% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 96 129
10th Percentile £375 £291 £310
25th Percentile £406 £386 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £654 £600 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +47.60%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Manchester 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
Stockport -5 2 - - 53
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.59%) Apache
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Kondor
2 10 (8.62%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.31%) Azure
2 20 (17.24%) AWS
3 15 (12.93%) Power Platform
4 11 (9.48%) GCP
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.17%) Serverless
7 5 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.31%) dbt
7 5 (4.31%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.59%) Apigee
9 3 (2.59%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.72%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.86%) DHCP
2 1 (0.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.38%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (13.79%) Relational Database
4 14 (12.07%) Power BI
5 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.76%) MongoDB
6 9 (7.76%) MySQL
6 9 (7.76%) Tableau
7 7 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.03%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.17%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.31%) Metadata
10 4 (3.45%) Big Data
10 4 (3.45%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.59%) Data Mining
11 3 (2.59%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.34%) JUnit
3 11 (9.48%) Liquibase
4 10 (8.62%) Git
4 10 (8.62%) Gradle
4 10 (8.62%) Mockito
5 9 (7.76%) GitLab
6 7 (6.03%) JIRA
7 5 (4.31%) ERwin
7 5 (4.31%) Visual Studio
8 4 (3.45%) JMeter
8 4 (3.45%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.45%) Selenium
9 3 (2.59%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.72%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.72%) Subversion
11 1 (0.86%) Hudson
11 1 (0.86%) Maven
11 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.10%) Finance
4 17 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.48%) Manufacturing
5 11 (9.48%) Marketing
6 10 (8.62%) Electronics
6 10 (8.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.17%) Banking
9 5 (4.31%) Law
10 3 (2.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.86%) Automotive
11 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Developer
2 25 (21.55%) Data Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Senior
4 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Analyst
5 10 (8.62%) Migration Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.90%) Data Migration Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Applications Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Applications Support Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) React Developer
8 7 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Integration Developer
9 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Systems Support
9 5 (4.31%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) Kafka
2 15 (12.93%) Spring
2 15 (12.93%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.07%) OpenAPI
3 14 (12.07%) Swagger
4 12 (10.34%) React
5 10 (8.62%) RESTful
6 5 (4.31%) REST
6 5 (4.31%) SOAP
7 4 (3.45%) .NET
7 4 (3.45%) PySpark
8 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.59%) ADO
8 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.59%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.59%) OAuth
8 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.59%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.72%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.31%) Derivative
3 5 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.86%) CMDB
5 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.07%) Unix
2 12 (10.34%) Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.90%) CI/CD
2 31 (26.72%) ETL
3 28 (24.14%) Data Modelling
3 28 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.28%) DevOps
4 27 (23.28%) Migration
5 25 (21.55%) Agile
5 25 (21.55%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (21.55%) Containerisation
6 24 (20.69%) Software Engineering
7 23 (19.83%) Microservices
8 19 (16.38%) Validation
9 17 (14.66%) Data Migration
10 15 (12.93%) TDD
11 14 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 14 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (10.34%) Analytics
12 12 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (9.48%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.17%) Python
2 20 (17.24%) Java
3 18 (15.52%) TypeScript
4 14 (12.07%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) Bash
6 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.59%) R
7 2 (1.72%) C#
7 2 (1.72%) C++
7 2 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) Degree
4 4 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) CCNA
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.17%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) Basel III
3 5 (4.31%) HL7
3 5 (4.31%) MiFID
4 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (21.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Terraform
3 2 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.86%) Nagios
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Oracle
2 20 (17.24%) Databricks
3 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.34%) Sybase
5 10 (8.62%) SAP
6 9 (7.76%) Informatica
7 7 (6.03%) Bloomberg
7 7 (6.03%) Refinitiv
8 5 (4.31%) Google
9 4 (3.45%) Talend
10 2 (1.72%) Brio
11 1 (0.86%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.86%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.86%) IBM
11 1 (0.86%) Moogsoft
11 1 (0.86%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.86%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.86%) Splunk