SQL Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 35 16
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL 110 36 51
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 10.56% 6.37% 12.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.87% 15.86% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 22 37
10th Percentile £343 £298 £425
25th Percentile £400 £359 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% +3.96%
75th Percentile £527 £525 £588
90th Percentile £614 £643 £622
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £449 £523
% change year-on-year +0.33% -14.16% +4.50%

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 381 227 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 36.56% 40.18% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 155 96
10th Percentile £363 £319 £400
25th Percentile £416 £379 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -11.47%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £591
90th Percentile £615 £612 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

SQL job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Sheffield

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (16.36%) Confluence
2 10 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) CMS
3 2 (1.82%) SAS
3 2 (1.82%) WordPress
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Infor LN
2 2 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.18%) Azure
2 29 (26.36%) GitHub
3 20 (18.18%) GCP
4 19 (17.27%) AWS
5 15 (13.64%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.73%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.73%) Stackdriver
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.91%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) DNS
2 3 (2.73%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.82%) Network Security
4 1 (0.91%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.91%) DHCP
4 1 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.91%) Firewall
4 1 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.55%) NoSQL
3 14 (12.73%) Power BI
4 11 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.27%) Tableau
6 7 (6.36%) Hadoop
6 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.45%) Metadata
7 6 (5.45%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.64%) Big Data
10 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.73%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.82%) MySQL
12 1 (0.91%) DataStage
12 1 (0.91%) Db2
12 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (18.18%) JIRA
2 18 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.18%) Bitbucket
4 8 (7.27%) Git
5 7 (6.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.64%) Selenium
7 3 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.73%) JUnit
7 3 (2.73%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.82%) Flyway
8 2 (1.82%) git-flow
8 2 (1.82%) GitLab
8 2 (1.82%) Mockito
8 2 (1.82%) MSBuild
8 2 (1.82%) Postman
8 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.91%) TestNG
9 1 (0.91%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.27%) Finance
4 17 (15.45%) Banking
5 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.82%) Back Office
6 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Front Office
6 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.82%) Law
6 2 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Legal
7 1 (0.91%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (21.82%) Analyst
2 21 (19.09%) Developer
3 17 (15.45%) Lead
4 13 (11.82%) Data Engineer
5 12 (10.91%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.91%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Senior
7 8 (7.27%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Architect
9 6 (5.45%) Consultant
10 5 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.55%) IAM Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Tester
11 4 (3.64%) Applications Tester
11 4 (3.64%) Data Consultant
11 4 (3.64%) DBA
11 4 (3.64%) Lead Consultant
11 4 (3.64%) Web Applications Tester
11 4 (3.64%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (24.55%) REST
2 13 (11.82%) .NET
3 12 (10.91%) HTML
4 8 (7.27%) Spring
4 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.36%) Kafka
5 7 (6.36%) SailPoint
6 6 (5.45%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.45%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
6 6 (5.45%) Web Services
7 4 (3.64%) JSON
7 4 (3.64%) LDAP
7 4 (3.64%) PySpark
7 4 (3.64%) React
7 4 (3.64%) RESTful
8 3 (2.73%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (2.73%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 3 (2.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.73%) Replication
6 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.82%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.82%) Equities
7 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.91%) Clustering
8 1 (0.91%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Linux
2 9 (8.18%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) Unix
4 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.82%) AIX
5 2 (1.82%) Solaris
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 33 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (27.27%) Analytics
4 29 (26.36%) Agile
5 24 (21.82%) DevOps
6 23 (20.91%) Validation
7 22 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (19.09%) Microservices
8 21 (19.09%) Test Automation
9 19 (17.27%) Data Engineering
10 17 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (15.45%) ETL
11 15 (13.64%) Code Quality
11 15 (13.64%) Observability
11 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (10.91%) API Development
13 12 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (10.91%) Use Case
14 11 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.36%) Python
2 30 (27.27%) Java
3 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
3 13 (11.82%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 8 (7.27%) R
6 7 (6.36%) C#
7 6 (5.45%) Bash
8 5 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.82%) Bicep
10 2 (1.82%) Perl
10 2 (1.82%) PHP
10 2 (1.82%) PromQL
10 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.91%) COBOL
11 1 (0.91%) Go
11 1 (0.91%) VB
11 1 (0.91%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (5.45%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.73%) OCP
3 3 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.36%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.82%) MiFID
4 1 (0.91%) GRC
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (16.36%) Docker
2 15 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.64%) KVM
3 4 (3.64%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.55%) Ansible
3 10 (9.09%) Terraform
4 9 (8.18%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.36%) Grafana
6 3 (2.73%) Data Guard
6 3 (2.73%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.82%) Consul
7 2 (1.82%) Zipkin
8 1 (0.91%) Control-M
8 1 (0.91%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.91%) Kiali
8 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.82%) Google
2 13 (11.82%) Splunk
3 9 (8.18%) Oracle
4 8 (7.27%) Databricks
5 5 (4.55%) Centrify
5 5 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.55%) Infor
6 4 (3.64%) VMware
7 2 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.82%) SAP
7 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.82%) Solace
7 2 (1.82%) Teradata
8 1 (0.91%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.91%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.91%) Okta
8 1 (0.91%) Red Hat