PROC SQL Contract Job Trends in the North West

SAS SQL Procedure (PROC SQL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring PROC SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PROC SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.029% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
England median daily rate £402 £400 -
% change year-on-year +0.50% - -

All Programming Languages
North West

PROC 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 855 531 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.07% 26.98% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 404 479
10th Percentile £344 £356 £325
25th Percentile £406 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £537 £546
90th Percentile £630 £620 £614
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.29% -2.87% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 5 38
10th Percentile £37.03 £68.50 £37.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £79.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% +63.12% +4.87%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £71.78
90th Percentile £87.20 £92.50 £79.72
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -

PROC SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PROC SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

PROC SQL job vacancy trend in the North West

PROC SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PROC SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PROC SQL

PROC SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PROC SQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 6 June 2026. 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
Manchester - 1 £402 -
PROC SQL
England

PROC SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA