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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 398 547 812
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.56% 9.78% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.45% 33.93% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 399 579
10th Percentile £300 £331 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £553 £591 £550
90th Percentile £614 £651 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 17
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.69 £14.15
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +110.91% -15.35%
75th Percentile £45.57 £53.84 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £59.28 £55.85
England median hourly rate £44.25 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.21% +40.81% +34.62%

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 1,190 1,612 2,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.60% 28.82% 31.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 1,181 1,729
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 51
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.57 £39.45 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.29 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +15.96% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

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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 17 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 17 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 -3 242 £475 - 239
Yorkshire -8 124 £488 -2.50% 154
North East +18 32 £475 -5.00% 45
SQL
England

SQL
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 21 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.77%) Apache
3 11 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.26%) SAS
5 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.76%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (1.76%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.01%) IIS
9 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.50%) CMS
10 1 (0.25%) Confluence
10 1 (0.25%) Kentico
10 1 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.25%) Site Server
10 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 61 (15.33%) Chatbot
2 22 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.01%) CATIA
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) DELMIA
1 8 (2.01%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.75%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.50%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (21.61%) Azure
2 80 (20.10%) Power Platform
3 52 (13.07%) AWS
4 31 (7.79%) Snowflake
5 24 (6.03%) GCP
6 22 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (5.28%) Serverless
8 18 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.02%) GitHub
11 12 (3.02%) Power Automate
12 10 (2.51%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.76%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.51%) Collibra
14 6 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) Firewall
2 6 (1.51%) DNS
3 5 (1.26%) DHCP
3 5 (1.26%) FTP
3 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.75%) AMQP
4 3 (0.75%) MQTT
4 3 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.50%) LAN
5 2 (0.50%) Modbus
5 2 (0.50%) NAS
5 2 (0.50%) Network Security
5 2 (0.50%) SAN
5 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.25%) DMZ
6 1 (0.25%) Internet
6 1 (0.25%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.25%) VLAN
6 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (20.10%) Power BI
2 71 (17.84%) SQL Server
3 46 (11.56%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (10.05%) Data Lake
5 35 (8.79%) Tableau
6 27 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 24 (6.03%) Big Data
8 22 (5.53%) BigQuery
8 22 (5.53%) MySQL
8 22 (5.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (4.77%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.02%) NoSQL
11 14 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.76%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.76%) Metadata
14 10 (2.51%) MongoDB
14 10 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (2.51%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 38 (9.55%) Git
2 22 (5.53%) JIRA
3 17 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.51%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.01%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.01%) Mocha
6 4 (1.01%) webpack
7 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.50%) JMeter
8 2 (0.50%) Selenium
8 2 (0.50%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (17.59%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (8.04%) Finance
4 17 (4.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 16 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.52%) Retail
8 11 (2.76%) Banking
9 9 (2.26%) Marketing
10 6 (1.51%) Legal
10 6 (1.51%) Publishing
11 5 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.01%) Automotive
12 4 (1.01%) Law
13 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) German Language
14 2 (0.50%) Local Government
14 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (39.45%) Developer
2 65 (16.33%) Software Developer
3 59 (14.82%) Analyst
4 38 (9.55%) Data Analyst
5 30 (7.54%) Data Engineer
6 26 (6.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 22 (5.53%) Senior
8 21 (5.28%) Architect
9 19 (4.77%) Lead
10 18 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (4.27%) DBA
12 16 (4.02%) .NET Developer
13 13 (3.27%) SQL Developer
14 12 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) Power BI Developer
15 11 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (2.51%) Project Manager
16 10 (2.51%) SQL DBA
17 9 (2.26%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (20.10%) HTML
2 33 (8.29%) .NET
3 17 (4.27%) CSS
4 16 (4.02%) Kafka
4 16 (4.02%) XML
5 15 (3.77%) AngularJS
6 14 (3.52%) React
7 12 (3.02%) .NET Core
7 12 (3.02%) RESTful
8 10 (2.51%) .NET Framework
8 10 (2.51%) Web Services
9 7 (1.76%) JSON
9 7 (1.76%) Node.js
10 6 (1.51%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.51%) Flask
11 5 (1.26%) Blazor
11 5 (1.26%) Entity Framework
12 4 (1.01%) PySpark
12 4 (1.01%) REST
12 4 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.26%) Clustering
1 9 (2.26%) NHS
2 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
3 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.76%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.51%) Life Science
4 6 (1.51%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.26%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.75%) CMDB
7 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.75%) PKI
7 3 (0.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.78%) Windows
2 16 (4.02%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.51%) Unix
4 7 (1.76%) VMS
4 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.51%) Linux
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.50%) Android
7 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.50%) HPUX
7 2 (0.50%) Solaris
7 2 (0.50%) zOS
8 1 (0.25%) CentOS
8 1 (0.25%) Fedora
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.25%) Rocky
8 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (21.86%) Software Engineering
3 66 (16.58%) ETL
4 65 (16.33%) Analytics
5 64 (16.08%) Code Quality
6 61 (15.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 61 (15.33%) Conversational UI
6 61 (15.33%) Data Modelling
7 58 (14.57%) Agile
8 47 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (11.56%) Migration
9 46 (11.56%) Visualisation
10 43 (10.80%) CI/CD
11 40 (10.05%) DevOps
12 32 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (7.79%) Data Integration
14 29 (7.29%) Data Visualisation
15 27 (6.78%) Data Engineering
15 27 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (6.53%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 143 (35.93%) Python
2 95 (23.87%) C#
3 93 (23.37%) JavaScript
4 32 (8.04%) Java
5 25 (6.28%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (3.27%) PL/SQL
8 12 (3.02%) Bash
9 10 (2.51%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.26%) Go
10 9 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.26%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (1.26%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.01%) C++
12 4 (1.01%) PHP
12 4 (1.01%) R
13 3 (0.75%) Scala
14 2 (0.50%) Bicep
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (21.61%) Degree
2 18 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.75%) PMP
8 2 (0.50%) CCNA
8 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.50%) MCSE
8 2 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.77%) QA
3 7 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.26%) GAMP
4 5 (1.26%) GxP
5 3 (0.75%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (6.28%) Docker
2 12 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.50%) HDFS
5 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) ACF2
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.25%) IAG
6 1 (0.25%) RACF
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.03%) Terraform
3 8 (2.01%) Ansible
4 6 (1.51%) Grafana
4 6 (1.51%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.25%) Control-M
7 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.25%) Graylog
7 1 (0.25%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.25%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.25%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.25%) VxRail
7 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 61 (15.33%) PayPal
3 25 (6.28%) Oracle
4 23 (5.78%) Google
5 13 (3.27%) Splunk
5 13 (3.27%) VMware
6 12 (3.02%) Databricks
7 10 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.51%) SAP
8 8 (2.01%) Informatica
8 8 (2.01%) Siemens
9 7 (1.76%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.76%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.51%) Dataiku
10 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.51%) Trillium
11 5 (1.26%) Talend
12 3 (0.75%) Aareon
12 3 (0.75%) HP
13 2 (0.50%) Sun