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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 16 2
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 21 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 14.58% 7.53% 20.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.81% 25.58% 77.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 22
10th Percentile £269 £356 £231
25th Percentile £335 £358 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £374 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -6.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £390 £399 £421
90th Percentile £468 £433 £498
Northamptonshire median daily rate £367 £388 £400
% change year-on-year -5.29% -3.13% +0.63%

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 64 43 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 44.44% 29.45% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 29
10th Percentile £268 £356 £231
25th Percentile £319 £359 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +11.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £432 £513 £408
90th Percentile £488 £593 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £367 £435 £375
% change year-on-year -15.63% +16.00% -6.25%

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 9 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (9.52%) Apache
3 2 (9.52%) SAS
3 2 (9.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.76%) CICS
4 1 (4.76%) JBoss
4 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (9.52%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Asana
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) HTTP
2 3 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 3 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Hadoop
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) DB2
3 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Flink
3 2 (9.52%) Parquet
4 1 (4.76%) Impala
4 1 (4.76%) Looker
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) Git
3 4 (19.05%) JIRA
4 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 3 (14.29%) Maven
4 3 (14.29%) Selenium
5 2 (9.52%) GitLab
5 2 (9.52%) JUnit
5 2 (9.52%) Mockito
5 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.76%) IntelliJ
6 1 (4.76%) Introscope
6 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Scala Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) HTML
2 5 (23.81%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) JPA
2 5 (23.81%) RAML
2 5 (23.81%) React
2 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
2 5 (23.81%) Web Services
3 4 (19.05%) Kafka
3 4 (19.05%) REST
4 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 3 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) Spring Batch
5 2 (9.52%) Apache Avro
5 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
5 2 (9.52%) Jest
5 2 (9.52%) JSON
5 2 (9.52%) Node.js
5 2 (9.52%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 3 (14.29%) State Machine
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) PMI
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) AIX
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) ETL
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) API Development
4 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
4 4 (19.05%) KYC
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Scrum
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) C
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL
4 1 (4.76%) JCL
4 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Basel III
2 1 (4.76%) IFRS
2 1 (4.76%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
2 2 (9.52%) Veracode
3 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware