SQL Contracts in Northern Ireland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 19 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 12.84% 13.93% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.29% 46.67% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 12
10th Percentile £318 £400 £266
25th Percentile £328 £409 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £446
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +3.48%
75th Percentile £453 £481 £488
90th Percentile £506 £537 £499
UK median daily rate £536 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -0.28% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £37.06
% change year-on-year -15.00% +34.92% +37.36%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 60 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.65% 29.85% 36.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 40
10th Percentile £318 - £346
25th Percentile £375 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.22% +12.53%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £500
90th Percentile £553 £615 £551
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.02 - -
25th Percentile £23.37 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
County Antrim -1 19 £413 -8.33% 22
SQL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (26.32%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Tableau
2 5 (26.32%) Apache Hive
2 5 (26.32%) Big Data
3 4 (21.05%) Impala
4 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
General
1 5 (26.32%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Python Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Big Data Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Banking Project Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Dashboard Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Excel Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Junior Business Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS3
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Unix
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
2 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
4 2 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
4 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) User Experience
4 2 (10.53%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Scala
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau Certification