SQL Contracts in Northampton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 15 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 12.20% 5.51% 21.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 21.21% 76.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 24
10th Percentile £268 £364 -
25th Percentile £327 £379 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +1.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £450 £496 £402
90th Percentile £485 £581 £485
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £410 £350
% change year-on-year -4.63% +17.14% -11.95%

All Programming Languages
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 33 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 40.65% 25.98% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 32
10th Percentile £268 £356 -
25th Percentile £322 £377 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £445 £325
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +36.92% -20.00%
75th Percentile £447 £500 £400
90th Percentile £525 £551 £495
Northamptonshire median daily rate £383 £435 £313
% change year-on-year -11.95% +39.20% -21.88%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Northampton.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) SAS
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Asana
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Flink
3 2 (13.33%) Parquet
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.67%) HBase
4 1 (6.67%) Impala
4 1 (6.67%) Looker
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) Mockito
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Introscope
3 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) Jest
3 2 (13.33%) JPA
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Redux
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) J2EE
4 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) AIX
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) KYC
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Data Security
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Basel III
2 1 (6.67%) IFRS
2 1 (6.67%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
1 2 (13.33%) Veracode
2 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware