SQL Contracts in the North West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 235 343 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.74% 10.99% 13.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.34% 37.36% 38.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 258 372
10th Percentile £293 £325 £313
25th Percentile £386 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £563
90th Percentile £610 £657 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
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 £49.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £59.28 £62.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.73% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 665 918 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.72% 29.41% 34.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 686 1,074
10th Percentile £326 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £588
90th Percentile £614 £658 £663
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 30
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £16.83
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% +21.16% +11.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £54.69 £55.63
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.90 £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the North West

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the North West

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the North West

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 SQL within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Manchester -2 122 £453 +0.56% 139
Cheshire -4 72 £500 - 43
Merseyside 0 25 £375 -25.00% 24
Lancashire -8 7 £600 +34.83% 20
Cumbria -19 3 £470 -6.00% 2
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.83%) SAS
3 8 (3.40%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.98%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (2.98%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (2.55%) Apache
6 5 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (10.64%) Chatbot
2 16 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.40%) CATIA
4 5 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.40%) DELMIA
1 8 (3.40%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.28%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.68%) Power Platform
2 40 (17.02%) Azure
3 27 (11.49%) AWS
4 26 (11.06%) Snowflake
5 12 (5.11%) Power Automate
6 11 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (4.68%) GCP
7 10 (4.26%) Serverless
8 9 (3.83%) Google Analytics
9 8 (3.40%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.55%) Amazon ELB
11 6 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.55%) Collibra
11 6 (2.55%) GitHub
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.13%) FTP
2 4 (1.70%) Firewall
3 3 (1.28%) DNS
3 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.43%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) NAS
5 1 (0.43%) Network Security
5 1 (0.43%) SAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.68%) Power BI
2 46 (19.57%) SQL Server
3 33 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (10.64%) Data Lake
5 18 (7.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (6.81%) Tableau
7 11 (4.68%) Big Data
7 11 (4.68%) Metadata
8 10 (4.26%) MySQL
8 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (3.83%) BigQuery
9 9 (3.83%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.40%) PowerPivot
10 8 (3.40%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.55%) Ataccama
11 6 (2.55%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Power View
11 6 (2.55%) Qlik Sense
12 5 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 19 (8.09%) Git
2 14 (5.96%) JIRA
3 7 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.55%) SonarQube
4 6 (2.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.70%) Jasmine
5 4 (1.70%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (1.70%) Mocha
5 4 (1.70%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.70%) webpack
6 3 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.85%) JMeter
7 2 (0.85%) Selenium
7 2 (0.85%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.43%) RStudio
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (8.09%) Finance
3 19 (8.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 13 (5.53%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.83%) Retail
6 7 (2.98%) Banking
6 7 (2.98%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.55%) Legal
7 6 (2.55%) Publishing
8 5 (2.13%) Marketing
9 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) German Language
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (34.89%) Developer
2 44 (18.72%) Analyst
3 34 (14.47%) Data Analyst
4 28 (11.91%) Software Developer
5 19 (8.09%) Data Engineer
6 17 (7.23%) Senior
7 14 (5.96%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (5.53%) Lead
9 12 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (4.26%) .NET Developer
10 10 (4.26%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.83%) Architect
11 9 (3.83%) Data Quality Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) QA Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) Quality Analyst
12 8 (3.40%) Power BI Developer
12 8 (3.40%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
12 8 (3.40%) Senior QA Analyst
12 8 (3.40%) Senior Quality Analyst
12 8 (3.40%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.32%) HTML
2 21 (8.94%) .NET
3 11 (4.68%) CSS
4 10 (4.26%) .NET Framework
4 10 (4.26%) XML
5 8 (3.40%) AngularJS
5 8 (3.40%) RESTful
6 7 (2.98%) .NET Core
6 7 (2.98%) Kafka
6 7 (2.98%) React
7 6 (2.55%) Node.js
7 6 (2.55%) Web Services
8 5 (2.13%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.13%) JSON
9 4 (1.70%) REST
10 3 (1.28%) PySpark
11 2 (0.85%) ODBC
11 2 (0.85%) SOAP
12 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
12 1 (0.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
1 6 (2.55%) Life Science
1 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
1 6 (2.55%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.13%) Algorithms
2 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (1.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.28%) Smartphone
5 2 (0.85%) Clustering
5 2 (0.85%) CMDB
5 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
5 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.98%) Windows
2 6 (2.55%) Unix
3 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.28%) Linux
5 2 (0.85%) VMS
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.85%) zOS
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (25.96%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (18.72%) Analytics
3 43 (18.30%) Agile
4 41 (17.45%) Software Engineering
5 39 (16.60%) ETL
6 31 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (12.77%) Visualisation
8 28 (11.91%) Code Quality
9 25 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (10.64%) CI/CD
9 25 (10.64%) Conversational UI
9 25 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (9.79%) Data Management
11 22 (9.36%) Data Modelling
12 21 (8.94%) DevOps
12 21 (8.94%) Migration
13 18 (7.66%) Data Analysis
13 18 (7.66%) Data Visualisation
14 17 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (7.23%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.49%) Python
2 52 (22.13%) C#
3 43 (18.30%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.53%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.11%) Java
6 11 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.68%) PL/SQL
7 9 (3.83%) Go
7 9 (3.83%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.98%) Bash
9 5 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.70%) R
10 4 (1.70%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.85%) C++
11 2 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) Bicep
12 1 (0.43%) Julia
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (16.17%) Degree
2 10 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.40%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.43%) CCNA
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.23%) QA
3 5 (2.13%) GAMP
3 5 (2.13%) GxP
4 4 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.28%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (4.68%) Docker
2 8 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.83%) Terraform
3 6 (2.55%) Ansible
3 6 (2.55%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.43%) Control-M
4 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.43%) Nagios
4 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.43%) VxRail
4 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.64%) PayPal
3 18 (7.66%) Oracle
4 14 (5.96%) Google
5 12 (5.11%) SAP
5 12 (5.11%) Splunk
6 10 (4.26%) Databricks
7 9 (3.83%) VMware
8 8 (3.40%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.40%) Siemens
9 7 (2.98%) Alteryx
9 7 (2.98%) Avaloq
10 6 (2.55%) Dataiku
10 6 (2.55%) Trillium
11 5 (2.13%) Informatica
11 5 (2.13%) Talend
12 3 (1.28%) Aareon
13 2 (0.85%) F5
13 2 (0.85%) HP
13 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud