SQL Contracts in the North East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 31 26
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL 35 28 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 10.29% 6.60% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% 14.66% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 21
10th Percentile £381 £356 £331
25th Percentile £437 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £497 £575 £500
90th Percentile £623 £651 £540
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +36.54%

All Programming Languages
North East

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 85 191 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 25.00% 45.05% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 152 96
10th Percentile £354 £382 £354
25th Percentile £403 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% +13.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £523 £651 £555
90th Percentile £635 £760 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile £20.77 £32.98 £16.02
25th Percentile £46.18 £35.56 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% -4.12% +174.19%
75th Percentile £48.75 £45.56 £49.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £47.93 £53.35
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +27 32 £475 -5.00% 36
Durham -4 2 £650 +47.73% 6
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 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.86%) Site Server
Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) BrowserStack
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
3 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.71%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) AMQP
1 4 (11.43%) MQTT
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Modbus
3 2 (5.71%) DMZ
4 1 (2.86%) NAS
4 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 3 (8.57%) Tableau
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.86%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 6 (17.14%) DBA
4 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Build Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Build Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Server Build Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Build Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) HTML
2 4 (11.43%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (8.57%) JSON
3 3 (8.57%) Next.js
3 3 (8.57%) React
3 3 (8.57%) RESTful
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
3 3 (8.57%) XML
3 3 (8.57%) XSLT
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) PKI
2 3 (8.57%) Clustering
2 3 (8.57%) IoT
3 2 (5.71%) BBC
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Software Engineering
2 14 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 14 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 4 (11.43%) Agile
3 4 (11.43%) Migration
3 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
4 3 (8.57%) Analytics
4 3 (8.57%) BDD
4 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.57%) CRUD
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis
4 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.57%) High Availability
4 3 (8.57%) Microservices
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) SDLC
4 3 (8.57%) Server Patching
4 3 (8.57%) TDD
4 3 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 18 (51.43%) C#
3 17 (48.57%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (17.14%) Java
6 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) MCSE
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) PayPal
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) AVEVA
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) VMware