SQL Contracts in Sheffield

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 27 33 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -33
Contract jobs citing SQL 23 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.21% 5.80% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.35% 18.18% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 4
10th Percentile £421 £378 £388
25th Percentile £500 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -12.07% +28.89%
75th Percentile £650 £568 £663
90th Percentile £674 £638 £685
South Yorkshire median daily rate £521 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +9.74% -10.38% +24.12%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 113 121 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.42% 31.93% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 90
10th Percentile £359 £397 £413
25th Percentile £409 £413 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £700
90th Percentile £650 £629 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £445 £594
% change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (21.74%) Apache
1 5 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) GCP
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Flink
2 4 (17.39%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) Tableau
4 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
4 2 (8.70%) Hazelcast
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) ERwin
2 2 (8.70%) Jaeger
2 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) TestRail
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.35%) Front Office
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.70%) QA Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) React Developer
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.70%) FpML
2 2 (8.70%) gRPC
2 2 (8.70%) JSON
2 2 (8.70%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) JPA
3 1 (4.35%) jQuery
3 1 (4.35%) MyBatis
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Data Management
2 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 8 (34.78%) ETL
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
5 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Data Lineage
5 5 (21.74%) Workflow
5 5 (21.74%) Workflow Management
6 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Microservices
7 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
8 2 (8.70%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Groovy
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Control-M
1 2 (8.70%) Grafana
1 2 (8.70%) Istio
1 2 (8.70%) Kiali
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.70%) Sparx
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 2 (8.70%) xMatters
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft