SQL Contracts in Northamptonshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 8 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 20 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.70% 8.16% 14.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.09% 36.36% 72.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 29
10th Percentile £269 £374 £205
25th Percentile £346 £381 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £410 £350
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +17.14% -11.95%
75th Percentile £438 £519 £400
90th Percentile £470 £523 £460
East Midlands median daily rate £423 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +5.63% - +3.23%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 57 44 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 39.04% 22.45% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 40
10th Percentile £269 £356 £212
25th Percentile £322 £381 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £435 £313
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +39.20% -21.88%
75th Percentile £440 £500 £400
90th Percentile £499 £521 £500
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -64.29%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northamptonshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Northampton +4 15 £371 -8.40% 84
Daventry +2 3 £425 +9.68%
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (15.00%) Confluence
1 3 (15.00%) SAS
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Asana
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Big Data
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (10.00%) Flink
4 2 (10.00%) Parquet
4 2 (10.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.00%) HBase
5 1 (5.00%) Impala
5 1 (5.00%) Looker
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) Mockito
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) Introscope
3 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) IT Support
5 1 (5.00%) Java Web Developer
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SAS Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (10.00%) Jest
3 2 (10.00%) JPA
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) Redux
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) J2EE
4 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) KYC
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (10.00%) Data Security
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) TDD
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
1 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Scala
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Basel III
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (5.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Veracode
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk