SQL Contracts in Somerset

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 13 22 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 11 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 7.91% 2.46% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.00% 16.67% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £421 £360 £329
25th Percentile £450 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -14.56% +51.47%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £727
90th Percentile - £630 £850
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.16
25th Percentile - - £36.80
Median hourly rate - - £42.40
75th Percentile - - £46.80
90th Percentile - - £48.72
South West median hourly rate £27.13 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.84%

All Programming Languages
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 30 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.99% 14.78% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 49
10th Percentile £406 £409 £313
25th Percentile £413 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £650
90th Percentile £727 £613 £726
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - - £42.96
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% +13.07%
75th Percentile - - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £66.87
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Somerset

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Somerset

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Somerset

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Somerset

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Somerset 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
Bath -6 4 £500 +17.65% 49
Street - 3 £625 - 8
SQL
South West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
2 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) NUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Postman
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Advertising
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Data Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) D3.js
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Data Science
3 4 (36.36%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Database Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) OpenAI