SQL Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

SQL Developer
England > North of England

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the North of England is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 147 175
Rank change year-on-year -53 +28 +27
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 6 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.50% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.55% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile - £328 £350
25th Percentile £313 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £489 £431
Median % change year-on-year -35.55% +13.33% -4.17%
75th Percentile £388 £578 £488
90th Percentile £395 £651 £504
England median daily rate £475 £494 £538
% change year-on-year -3.80% -8.14% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,226 3,485 4,420
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 92.00% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 1,960 2,985
10th Percentile £213 £239 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 195 205
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.36 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.76 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -9.96% +30.95%
75th Percentile £53.44 £44.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £67.91 £61.19
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SQL Developer job vacancies in the North of England

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
North West -27 4 £314 -35.75% 4
Yorkshire -41 2 £375 -30.23%
SQL Developer
England

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) WebFOCUS
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Database Security
5 1 (16.67%) Databricks
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) MongoDB

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) WebFOCUS
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Database Security
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle