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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 110 131 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 12.28% 9.10% 9.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.73% 30.97% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 101 133
10th Percentile £375 £306 £315
25th Percentile £406 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33.60
25th Percentile £67.50 - £39.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - £57.00
90th Percentile - - £62.40
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +175.19%

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 284 423 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 31.70% 29.40% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 324 422
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £400 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £588
90th Percentile £612 £625 £662
North West median daily rate £454 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 3
10th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £33.25
25th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £38.13
Median hourly rate £79.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +47.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £88.75 £77.75 £57.38
90th Percentile £92.50 £82.80 £62.55
North West median hourly rate £80.75 £48.43 £46.18
% change year-on-year +66.74% +4.87% -10.07%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 2 - - 114
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 3 (2.73%) Apache
1 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.82%) SAS
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Kondor
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.91%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.91%) Azure
2 20 (18.18%) AWS
3 12 (10.91%) GCP
4 11 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.45%) Serverless
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.64%) Apigee
7 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.73%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.73%) GitHub
8 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.91%) DHCP
2 1 (0.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 19 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (11.82%) NoSQL
5 10 (9.09%) Power BI
6 9 (8.18%) MongoDB
7 8 (7.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.36%) Tableau
9 6 (5.45%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.45%) Delta Lake
9 6 (5.45%) MySQL
10 5 (4.55%) Metadata
11 4 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (3.64%) Big Data
11 4 (3.64%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (1.82%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.00%) Liquibase
3 10 (9.09%) GitLab
3 10 (9.09%) Gradle
3 10 (9.09%) JUnit
3 10 (9.09%) Mockito
4 7 (6.36%) Git
5 5 (4.55%) ERwin
6 4 (3.64%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.64%) JIRA
6 4 (3.64%) JMeter
6 4 (3.64%) LoadRunner
6 4 (3.64%) Selenium
7 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.82%) Subversion
9 1 (0.91%) Hudson
9 1 (0.91%) Maven
9 1 (0.91%) Postman
9 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Finance
3 19 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 11 (10.00%) Marketing
6 10 (9.09%) Electronics
6 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
7 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (5.45%) Banking
9 5 (4.55%) Law
10 4 (3.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.82%) Back Office
11 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.91%) Automotive
12 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (20.91%) Developer
2 21 (19.09%) Data Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) Senior
5 10 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Analyst
6 8 (7.27%) Data Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.36%) Applications Support Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Java Developer
7 7 (6.36%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) React Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Integration Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Lead
9 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.55%) Kafka
2 15 (13.64%) React
3 13 (11.82%) Spring
3 13 (11.82%) Spring Boot
4 12 (10.91%) OpenAPI
4 12 (10.91%) Swagger
5 7 (6.36%) REST
5 7 (6.36%) SOAP
6 6 (5.45%) .NET
6 6 (5.45%) RESTful
7 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.64%) OAuth
7 4 (3.64%) PySpark
8 3 (2.73%) ADO
8 3 (2.73%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.73%) Node.js
8 3 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.82%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.36%) Derivative
2 7 (6.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (6.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (1.82%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.82%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.91%) CMDB
4 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.91%) IoT
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Unix
2 12 (10.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) CI/CD
2 28 (25.45%) DevOps
2 28 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (24.55%) Migration
4 26 (23.64%) Agile
4 26 (23.64%) Data Modelling
4 26 (23.64%) ETL
5 24 (21.82%) Software Engineering
6 23 (20.91%) Containerisation
7 21 (19.09%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (18.18%) Microservices
9 19 (17.27%) Validation
10 16 (14.55%) Data Migration
11 14 (12.73%) TDD
11 14 (12.73%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (10.91%) Knowledge Transfer
14 11 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
15 10 (9.09%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) Java
3 16 (14.55%) TypeScript
4 14 (12.73%) PL/SQL
5 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.73%) C#
7 2 (1.82%) Bash
7 2 (1.82%) C++
7 2 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.82%) R
8 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.64%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) CCNA
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.36%) Basel III
2 7 (6.36%) MiFID
3 5 (4.55%) HL7
3 5 (4.55%) QA
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.36%) Terraform
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.91%) Nagios
4 1 (0.91%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (20.91%) Oracle
2 19 (17.27%) Microsoft
3 18 (16.36%) Databricks
4 14 (12.73%) Sybase
5 10 (9.09%) SAP
6 9 (8.18%) Informatica
7 7 (6.36%) Bloomberg
7 7 (6.36%) Refinitiv
8 6 (5.45%) Google
9 4 (3.64%) Talend
10 2 (1.82%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.91%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.91%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds