SQL Contracts in the South West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 33 18
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 147 164 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.73% 5.13% 8.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.52% 26.24% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 132 245
10th Percentile £351 £363 £355
25th Percentile £400 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +7.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £691
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £25.36 - £26.86
25th Percentile £25.50 - £45.60
Median hourly rate £27.13 - £57.50
75th Percentile £46.75 - £68.38
90th Percentile £57.40 - £77.75
England median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.71% -15.00% +40.85%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 452 625 1,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.84% 19.54% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 419 760
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Bristol +16 55 £400 -11.11% 70
Wiltshire +17 25 £575 +6.98% 18
Dorset +16 20 £500 +25.63% 21
Gloucestershire +13 20 £600 +9.09% 60
Somerset +10 11 £500 -9.09% 26
Devon +20 4 £338 -20.59% 20
Cornwall +7 1 £350 -11.62% 2
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.76%) SAS
4 6 (4.08%) Confluence
4 6 (4.08%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.68%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.68%) Appian
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.68%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.68%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.09%) Azure
2 26 (17.69%) AWS
3 20 (13.61%) Power Platform
4 9 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (6.12%) GCP
4 9 (6.12%) Snowflake
5 8 (5.44%) Matillion
6 7 (4.76%) Adobe Analytics
6 7 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.08%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.72%) Serverless
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.04%) GitHub
9 3 (2.04%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.48%) Skype
2 8 (5.44%) DHCP
2 8 (5.44%) DNS
3 5 (3.40%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.04%) Firewall
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) LAN
6 1 (0.68%) SMTP
6 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.01%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.61%) Power BI
3 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
4 16 (10.88%) Relational Database
5 14 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 14 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (6.12%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (4.76%) Tableau
8 6 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (4.08%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.72%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.72%) MySQL
10 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) JIRA
2 11 (7.48%) Git
3 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.04%) NUnit
3 3 (2.04%) Selenium
4 2 (1.36%) GitLab
4 2 (1.36%) Postman
4 2 (1.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Ant
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Flyway
5 1 (0.68%) Gatling
5 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 38 (25.85%) Finance
1 38 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.16%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Marketing
6 6 (4.08%) Legal
7 4 (2.72%) Local Government
7 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.04%) Electronics
8 3 (2.04%) Military
8 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.36%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (21.77%) Senior
2 24 (16.33%) Analyst
3 23 (15.65%) Data Engineer
3 23 (15.65%) Developer
4 15 (10.20%) Applications Support
5 14 (9.52%) Senior Applications Support
6 10 (6.80%) Lead
7 9 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 9 (6.12%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Data Manager
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Support Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Architect
9 7 (4.76%) Data Analytics Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Insight Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Strategy Manager
9 7 (4.76%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) CSS
1 8 (5.44%) HTML
2 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (3.40%) .NET
3 5 (3.40%) CSS3
3 5 (3.40%) HTML5
3 5 (3.40%) React
4 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.72%) Node.js
5 3 (2.04%) D3.js
5 3 (2.04%) Laravel
5 3 (2.04%) Middleware
5 3 (2.04%) Playwright
5 3 (2.04%) REST
5 3 (2.04%) Yii
6 2 (1.36%) Jest
6 2 (1.36%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.36%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.36%) Redux
6 2 (1.36%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.93%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.16%) PKI
3 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Equities
6 1 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.68%) Pricing Data
6 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.93%) Windows
2 15 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.48%) Linux
4 8 (5.44%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.13%) ETL
2 33 (22.45%) Agile
3 26 (17.69%) Data Modelling
4 25 (17.01%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (15.65%) Migration
6 22 (14.97%) Analytics
7 17 (11.56%) CI/CD
7 17 (11.56%) Logistics
8 15 (10.20%) Critical Thinking
8 15 (10.20%) Visualisation
9 14 (9.52%) DevOps
9 14 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (8.84%) Data Integration
10 13 (8.84%) Data Protection
10 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (8.16%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (6.80%) Data Extraction
12 10 (6.80%) Service Management
13 8 (5.44%) ITIL
13 8 (5.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.41%) Python
2 16 (10.88%) PowerShell
3 12 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.80%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.12%) Java
5 9 (6.12%) R
6 5 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.72%) C#
8 3 (2.04%) PHP
9 2 (1.36%) Go
9 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Fortran
10 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (31.97%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.52%) Degree
5 5 (3.40%) MCSE
5 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.68%) MCSA
7 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.52%) GDPR
2 13 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.36%) Basel III
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (13.61%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.52%) Docker
3 6 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (7.48%) Terraform
2 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.12%) WSUS
4 3 (2.04%) Grafana
5 2 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.36%) SCCM
6 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.68%) SCOM
6 1 (0.68%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 31 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.93%) Oracle
3 7 (4.76%) Adobe
3 7 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 7 (4.76%) Teradata
4 6 (4.08%) Databricks
4 6 (4.08%) Google
5 5 (3.40%) SAP
5 5 (3.40%) Veeam
6 4 (2.72%) Informatica
6 4 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.72%) SnapLogic
6 4 (2.72%) VMware
7 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.36%) Foundry
8 2 (1.36%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.36%) Palantir
9 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.68%) Workday