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

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 7 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 20 26 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.22% 13.98% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.85% 43.33% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 9
10th Percentile £407 £416 £466
25th Percentile £416 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -20.83% +12.15%
75th Percentile £479 £497 £650
90th Percentile £560 £500 £708
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -5.21%

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 67 60 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 30.88% 32.26% 44.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 25 86
10th Percentile £326 £355 £400
25th Percentile £380 £383 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £517 £501 £700
90th Percentile £575 £580 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £565
% change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
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 June 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 (15.00%) OpenEdge
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) Kong
4 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) Azure
5 2 (10.00%) dbt
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Stitch
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MySQL
2 7 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (30.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (25.00%) Power BI
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (15.00%) Tableau
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (5.00%) Big Data
8 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (5.00%) Metadata
8 1 (5.00%) Power Query
8 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) gulp
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Maven
2 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) ERwin
4 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Node.js
1 6 (30.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (20.00%) Apache CXF
3 4 (20.00%) Dropwizard
3 4 (20.00%) Express.js
3 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (20.00%) JAX-RS
3 4 (20.00%) Kafka
3 4 (20.00%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (20.00%) MERN Stack
3 4 (20.00%) Mongoose
3 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (20.00%) React
3 4 (20.00%) Sequelize
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) boto
5 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Open Source
3 4 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle