SQL Contracts in Merseyside

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 14 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 15 25 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.38% 11.79% 15.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.88% 55.56% 66.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 40
10th Percentile £454 £285 £317
25th Percentile £463 £304 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £375 £490
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -23.47% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £492 £650
90th Percentile £745 £494 £693
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
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 - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +64.71% +4.71% +175.19%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 32 45 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.00% 21.23% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 61
10th Percentile £419 £285 £325
25th Percentile £450 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.02% -1.22%
75th Percentile £625 £494 £610
90th Percentile £671 £550 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
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 - - -
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 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
Liverpool -8 12 £550 +46.67% 163
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (13.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) dbt
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Siebel Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Applications Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) E-Business Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Siebel Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JMS
1 6 (40.00%) SOAP
1 6 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
1 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Solaris
2 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (53.33%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) EAI
3 6 (40.00%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PL/SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Korn
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) MCSE
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 6 (40.00%) Siebel
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Google