SQL Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 14 5 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 22 27 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.87% 12.86% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.21% 42.19% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £359 £429 £393
25th Percentile £390 £460 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £475 £491 £600
90th Percentile £479 £500 £654
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +17.65%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 78 64 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.98% 30.48% 50.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 28 135
10th Percentile £325 £359 £400
25th Percentile £359 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £465 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% -17.79% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £508 £675
90th Percentile £598 £565 £760
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £420 £452 £565
% change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +9.47% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (13.64%) OpenEdge
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (18.18%) Kong
5 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
5 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) dbt
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.55%) Stitch
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) MySQL
2 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
2 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Power BI
3 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.64%) Big Data
4 3 (13.64%) Tableau
5 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
6 1 (4.55%) Power Query
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 4 (18.18%) Git
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) gulp
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 4 (18.18%) Maven
1 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
1 4 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (13.64%) ERwin
3 2 (9.09%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) PySpark
2 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 4 (18.18%) Apache CXF
2 4 (18.18%) Dropwizard
2 4 (18.18%) Express.js
2 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 4 (18.18%) JAX-RS
2 4 (18.18%) Kafka
2 4 (18.18%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (18.18%) MERN Stack
2 4 (18.18%) Mongoose
2 4 (18.18%) Node.js
2 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (18.18%) React
2 4 (18.18%) Sequelize
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
2 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
2 5 (22.73%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) API Integration
2 5 (22.73%) Data Transformation
2 5 (22.73%) ERP
2 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
2 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
3 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
3 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (18.18%) Microservices
3 4 (18.18%) Open Source
3 4 (18.18%) Operational Stability
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
5 2 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.55%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle