SQL Contracts in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 381 561 821
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.12% 9.68% 11.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.83% 33.14% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 408 578
10th Percentile £288 £331 £313
25th Percentile £386 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £461
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +5.01% +15.31%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £545
90th Percentile £614 £650 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 22
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.12 £14.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +56.12% +10.89%
75th Percentile £45.57 £53.84 £42.62
90th Percentile £46.18 £59.28 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.57 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.26% +40.62% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,197 1,693 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.50% 29.22% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,252 1,735
10th Percentile £316 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 43
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £38.50 £19.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +24.36% +50.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the North of England

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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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
North West -4 233 £475 - 211
Yorkshire -8 113 £450 -10.00% 127
North East +22 35 £475 -5.00% 43
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (4.46%) Apache
2 14 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.36%) SAS
5 8 (2.10%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.84%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (1.84%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.05%) IIS
9 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.52%) CMS
10 1 (0.26%) Kentico
10 1 (0.26%) nginx
10 1 (0.26%) Site Server
10 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 61 (16.01%) Chatbot
2 22 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.10%) CATIA
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.10%) DELMIA
1 8 (2.10%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.79%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (20.21%) Azure
2 76 (19.95%) Power Platform
3 46 (12.07%) AWS
4 32 (8.40%) Snowflake
5 19 (4.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (3.94%) GCP
7 14 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (3.67%) Serverless
8 12 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (3.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (3.15%) Power Automate
9 11 (2.89%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.89%) Google Analytics
10 10 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.62%) GitHub
11 7 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.57%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.10%) Firewall
2 5 (1.31%) FTP
3 4 (1.05%) AMQP
3 4 (1.05%) DNS
3 4 (1.05%) MQTT
4 3 (0.79%) DHCP
4 3 (0.79%) Modbus
4 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.52%) DMZ
5 2 (0.52%) LAN
5 2 (0.52%) NAS
5 2 (0.52%) SAN
5 2 (0.52%) WAN
5 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.26%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.26%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (19.95%) Power BI
2 67 (17.59%) SQL Server
3 44 (11.55%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (9.45%) Tableau
5 31 (8.14%) Data Lake
6 23 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (5.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (4.72%) Big Data
9 17 (4.46%) MySQL
10 16 (4.20%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.94%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.41%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.89%) Metadata
14 8 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (2.10%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.84%) MongoDB
15 7 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
16 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 30 (7.87%) Git
2 21 (5.51%) JIRA
3 9 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.57%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.05%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.05%) Mocha
6 4 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.05%) webpack
7 3 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.52%) JMeter
8 2 (0.52%) Selenium
8 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 65 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 37 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.92%) Finance
4 19 (4.99%) Pharmaceutical
5 17 (4.46%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.67%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.67%) Retail
7 9 (2.36%) Marketing
8 7 (1.84%) Banking
8 7 (1.84%) Publishing
9 6 (1.57%) Legal
10 5 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.05%) Automotive
11 4 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.05%) Law
12 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) German Language
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
13 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.26%) French Language
Job Titles
1 154 (40.42%) Developer
2 65 (17.06%) Software Developer
3 61 (16.01%) Analyst
4 42 (11.02%) Data Analyst
5 30 (7.87%) Data Engineer
6 24 (6.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 21 (5.51%) Senior
8 18 (4.72%) Lead
9 17 (4.46%) DBA
10 16 (4.20%) .NET Developer
10 16 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.67%) SQL Developer
12 13 (3.41%) Architect
13 11 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 10 (2.62%) Power BI Developer
14 10 (2.62%) SQL DBA
15 9 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (2.36%) QA Analyst
15 9 (2.36%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (19.69%) HTML
2 30 (7.87%) .NET
3 13 (3.41%) RESTful
3 13 (3.41%) XML
4 12 (3.15%) .NET Core
4 12 (3.15%) CSS
4 12 (3.15%) React
5 11 (2.89%) Web Services
6 10 (2.62%) .NET Framework
6 10 (2.62%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.36%) Kafka
8 8 (2.10%) JSON
9 6 (1.57%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.57%) Flask
10 5 (1.31%) Blazor
10 5 (1.31%) Entity Framework
10 5 (1.31%) Node.js
10 5 (1.31%) REST
11 4 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.36%) Clustering
2 8 (2.10%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.10%) Product Ownership
3 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.84%) NHS
3 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.57%) Life Science
4 6 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.05%) IoT
6 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.05%) PKI
7 3 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.25%) Windows
2 16 (4.20%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.10%) Unix
4 7 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.57%) Linux
5 6 (1.57%) VMS
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.52%) HPUX
7 2 (0.52%) Solaris
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Fedora
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Rocky
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (23.10%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (22.05%) Software Engineering
3 64 (16.80%) Code Quality
4 62 (16.27%) Analytics
4 62 (16.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 61 (16.01%) Conversational UI
6 58 (15.22%) Agile
7 57 (14.96%) ETL
8 49 (12.86%) Data Modelling
9 46 (12.07%) Visualisation
10 45 (11.81%) Migration
11 44 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (10.76%) CI/CD
13 32 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (8.14%) DevOps
15 30 (7.87%) Data Visualisation
16 29 (7.61%) Data Analysis
17 28 (7.35%) Data Pipeline
18 26 (6.82%) Data Engineering
19 25 (6.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (36.22%) Python
2 93 (24.41%) C#
3 89 (23.36%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 22 (5.77%) Java
6 14 (3.67%) PL/SQL
7 13 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (3.15%) Bash
9 9 (2.36%) Go
9 9 (2.36%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.84%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.31%) PHP
11 5 (1.31%) R
11 5 (1.31%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (1.31%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.79%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) VB
14 1 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (21.52%) Degree
2 17 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
4 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.52%) MCSE
6 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.26%) CCNA
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.25%) QA
3 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.31%) GAMP
4 5 (1.31%) GxP
5 3 (0.79%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (6.82%) Docker
2 11 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.36%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) HDFS
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) ACF2
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) IAG
6 1 (0.26%) RACF
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.89%) Terraform
3 8 (2.10%) Ansible
4 7 (1.84%) Grafana
5 6 (1.57%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.26%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.26%) Graylog
7 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.26%) Nagios
7 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.26%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.26%) VxRail
7 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (16.01%) PayPal
2 53 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.04%) Oracle
4 18 (4.72%) Google
5 13 (3.41%) Databricks
5 13 (3.41%) SAP
5 13 (3.41%) Splunk
6 12 (3.15%) VMware
7 10 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.10%) Informatica
8 8 (2.10%) Siemens
9 7 (1.84%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.84%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.57%) Dataiku
10 6 (1.57%) Trillium
11 5 (1.31%) Talend
12 3 (0.79%) Aareon
12 3 (0.79%) HP
12 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.52%) Sun