SQL Contracts in the North East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 8 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 25 35 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 7.89% 10.29% 6.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.41% 41.18% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 19
10th Percentile £360 £381 £356
25th Percentile £407 £437 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £476 £497 £575
90th Percentile £531 £623 £651
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 88 85 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.76% 25.00% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 34 152
10th Percentile £326 £354 £382
25th Percentile £359 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £465 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £523 £651
90th Percentile £574 £635 £760
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - £20.77 £32.98
25th Percentile - £46.18 £35.56
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile - £68.75 £47.93
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the North East.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North East over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Tyne and Wear -8 23 £450 -5.26% 63
Durham +2 2 £525 -19.23% 2
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (12.00%) OpenEdge
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Kong
6 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (8.00%) dbt
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MySQL
2 5 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) Power BI
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (12.00%) Big Data
4 3 (12.00%) Tableau
5 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.00%) Metadata
5 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.00%) Power Query
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (16.00%) gulp
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
2 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (12.00%) ERwin
4 2 (8.00%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Data Modeller
6 2 (8.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) PySpark
2 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (16.00%) Apache CXF
2 4 (16.00%) Dropwizard
2 4 (16.00%) Express.js
2 4 (16.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (16.00%) JAX-RS
2 4 (16.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.00%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (16.00%) MERN Stack
2 4 (16.00%) Mongoose
2 4 (16.00%) Node.js
2 4 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (16.00%) React
2 4 (16.00%) Sequelize
2 4 (16.00%) Spring
2 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) API Integration
3 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 5 (20.00%) ERP
3 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (16.00%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) Open Source
4 4 (16.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.00%) ETL
5 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Java
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle