SQL Contracts in the South West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 159 298 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.01% 8.40% 9.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.48% 28.74% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 235 255
10th Percentile £363 £350 £343
25th Percentile £419 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £613 £611 £553
90th Percentile £700 £700 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 12
10th Percentile - £26.86 £38.06
25th Percentile - £45.60 £48.88
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £51.88
Median % change year-on-year - +10.84% +42.38%
75th Percentile - £68.38 £57.73
90th Percentile - £77.75 £63.08
England median hourly rate £44.25 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.21% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
South West

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 624 1,037 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.68% 29.24% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 743 769
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +3.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 93 70
10th Percentile £48.80 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £58.63 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

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

SQL
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 9 May 2024.

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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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 9 May 2024. 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 -10 63 £469 -1.32% 77
Wiltshire -21 39 £538 +13.16% 31
Gloucestershire -22 19 £550 - 22
Dorset +1 6 £398 -38.77% 17
Somerset -14 6 £563 -16.67% 22
Devon -16 1 £425 -10.53% 20
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 1
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 19 (11.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.03%) Confluence
3 5 (3.14%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.89%) CMS
4 3 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.26%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.63%) Apache
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.63%) SAS
6 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (7.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.63%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (33.33%) Azure
2 44 (27.67%) Power Platform
3 25 (15.72%) AWS
4 19 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.29%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (6.29%) Serverless
7 8 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (5.03%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (5.03%) Entra ID
8 7 (4.40%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.52%) GCP
11 2 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.26%) PaaS
11 2 (1.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.29%) Firewall
2 9 (5.66%) DHCP
2 9 (5.66%) DNS
3 6 (3.77%) Network Security
4 5 (3.14%) AMQP
4 5 (3.14%) Skype
5 2 (1.26%) LAN
5 2 (1.26%) SMTP
5 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.63%) Internet
6 1 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (27.67%) Power BI
2 38 (23.90%) SQL Server
3 21 (13.21%) Relational Database
4 18 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (9.43%) Tableau
6 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (7.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (6.92%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (5.66%) Oracle Database
9 8 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (4.40%) Data Lake
10 7 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.77%) InfluxDB
11 6 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (3.14%) CockroachDB
13 4 (2.52%) Biml
13 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (1.89%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) Git
1 10 (6.29%) JIRA
2 9 (5.66%) Visual Studio
3 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.03%) Postman
4 6 (3.77%) NUnit
5 3 (1.89%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.89%) GitLab
6 2 (1.26%) Selenium
7 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.63%) GoCD
7 1 (0.63%) JMeter
7 1 (0.63%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.63%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 30 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (15.72%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.81%) Finance
4 9 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.03%) Military
6 6 (3.77%) Marketing
6 6 (3.77%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.52%) Local Government
7 4 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.89%) Banking
8 3 (1.89%) Electronics
8 3 (1.89%) German Language
8 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.26%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) Back Office
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Law
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (26.42%) Developer
2 26 (16.35%) Data Engineer
3 19 (11.95%) Senior
4 17 (10.69%) Software Developer
5 16 (10.06%) Architect
6 13 (8.18%) Test Engineer
7 9 (5.66%) Analyst
8 7 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Consultant
9 6 (3.77%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Lead
9 6 (3.77%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Systems Architect
9 6 (3.77%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) HTML
2 16 (10.06%) .NET
3 10 (6.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.40%) PySpark
4 7 (4.40%) REST
5 6 (3.77%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.14%) CSS
6 5 (3.14%) Playwright
6 5 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.52%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (2.52%) React
8 3 (1.89%) JPA
8 3 (1.89%) JSON
8 3 (1.89%) Node.js
8 3 (1.89%) Spring
8 3 (1.89%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.26%) Django
9 2 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.29%) PKI
2 8 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.40%) Blog
3 7 (4.40%) Replication
4 6 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.95%) Windows
2 17 (10.69%) Windows Server
3 11 (6.92%) Linux
4 8 (5.03%) VMS
4 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.26%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.82%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (26.42%) Agile
3 34 (21.38%) Data Modelling
3 34 (21.38%) DevOps
4 28 (17.61%) ETL
5 25 (15.72%) Migration
6 22 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (13.84%) Software Engineering
7 21 (13.21%) CI/CD
8 15 (9.43%) Code Quality
8 15 (9.43%) Scrum
8 15 (9.43%) Test Automation
9 13 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (8.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 13 (8.18%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (7.55%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.55%) Conversational UI
10 12 (7.55%) Data Migration
10 12 (7.55%) TDD
11 11 (6.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.42%) Python
2 29 (18.24%) C#
3 25 (15.72%) JavaScript
4 18 (11.32%) Java
5 16 (10.06%) PL/SQL
6 13 (8.18%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.55%) T-SQL
8 9 (5.66%) C
8 9 (5.66%) Go
9 7 (4.40%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.77%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.52%) C++
11 4 (2.52%) R
12 2 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.26%) Scala
13 1 (0.63%) Bash
13 1 (0.63%) Dart
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.63%) ProC
13 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 28 (17.61%) Degree
4 21 (13.21%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.03%) MCSE
6 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.77%) MCSA
7 6 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.14%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.26%) IBM Certification
9 2 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.63%) CCNA
10 1 (0.63%) CCNP
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.32%) QA
2 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.26%) SLA
3 2 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.32%) Docker
3 12 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.63%) NFS
7 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (11.95%) Terraform
2 16 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.18%) Ansible
4 9 (5.66%) Grafana
4 9 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.03%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.52%) SCCM
7 4 (2.52%) SCOM
8 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.26%) OPNET
8 2 (1.26%) WSUS
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
9 1 (0.63%) rkt
9 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.95%) Oracle
3 14 (8.81%) VMware
4 12 (7.55%) PayPal
5 10 (6.29%) SAP
6 8 (5.03%) CA
7 7 (4.40%) Databricks
8 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.89%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.26%) Google
10 2 (1.26%) IBM
10 2 (1.26%) Remedy
10 2 (1.26%) Splunk
10 2 (1.26%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco
11 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.63%) Marketo
11 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow