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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 3.80% 4.13% 13.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.27% 25.00% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 20
10th Percentile £399 £365 £329
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +31.73%
75th Percentile - £600 £738
90th Percentile £519 £610 £750
South West median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +5.26%
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 £26.50 - £58.75
% change year-on-year - - +8.29%

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 22 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 13.92% 16.51% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 47
10th Percentile £406 £376 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £649 £563 £669
90th Percentile £841 £600 £739
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 7
10th Percentile - - £41.61
25th Percentile - - £48.88
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% +0.29%
75th Percentile - - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £66.87
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +6.87% +9.17%

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 31 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 31 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 -7 5 £475 +15.15% 11
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Insight Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 1 (16.67%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Insight Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle