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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 38 26 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 18.63% 10.53% 12.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.78% 41.94% 63.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 24
10th Percentile £263 £358 £205
25th Percentile £317 £373 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +0.63%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £402
90th Percentile £476 £450 £493
East Midlands median daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 98 62 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 48.04% 25.10% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 51 39
10th Percentile £264 £356 £211
25th Percentile £313 £378 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.40% +8.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £430 £495 £488
90th Percentile £488 £588 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £406 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -4.47% -2.86% +2.94%
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 £19.00 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% -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

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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 29 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 29 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 +6 33 £363 -7.64% 143
Daventry +2 3 £425 +4.62%
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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (7.89%) SAS
3 2 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.63%) CICS
4 1 (2.63%) JBoss
4 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) GCP
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Asana
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) HTTP
2 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
2 3 (7.89%) SSL
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) DHCP
4 1 (2.63%) DNS
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) Hadoop
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.89%) Big Data
4 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.26%) Apache Hudi
5 2 (5.26%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.26%) DB2
5 2 (5.26%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.26%) Flink
5 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.26%) MySQL
5 2 (5.26%) Parquet
5 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (2.63%) Looker
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) JIRA
4 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.89%) Maven
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (7.89%) Selenium
5 2 (5.26%) GitLab
5 2 (5.26%) JUnit
5 2 (5.26%) Mockito
5 2 (5.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.63%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.63%) Introscope
6 1 (2.63%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Automotive
6 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Automation Tester
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Junior
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Automation Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Tester
6 2 (5.26%) Scala Developer
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Finance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) HTML
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 7 (18.42%) CSS
3 5 (13.16%) JPA
3 5 (13.16%) Kafka
3 5 (13.16%) LDAP
3 5 (13.16%) RAML
3 5 (13.16%) React
3 5 (13.16%) RESTful
3 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
3 5 (13.16%) Web Services
4 4 (10.53%) Spring
5 3 (7.89%) .NET
5 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.89%) JSON
5 3 (7.89%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (7.89%) Spring Batch
6 2 (5.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
1 3 (7.89%) State Machine
2 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.63%) PMI
3 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) AIX
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Agile
2 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 8 (21.05%) Microservices
4 8 (21.05%) SDLC
5 7 (18.42%) Scrum
6 6 (15.79%) API Development
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) ETL
6 6 (15.79%) KYC
7 5 (13.16%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 5 (13.16%) Biometrics
7 5 (13.16%) Clean Code
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.16%) Digital Identity
7 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (13.16%) Project Management
7 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 5 (13.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.05%) Python
4 7 (18.42%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.53%) Scala
6 2 (5.26%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) COBOL
7 1 (2.63%) JCL
7 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) Basel III
4 1 (2.63%) IFRS
4 1 (2.63%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (5.26%) Databricks
2 2 (5.26%) Veracode
2 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.63%) Solace
3 1 (2.63%) Splunk