SQL Contracts in South Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 25 31 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 25 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.43% 5.47% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.32% 17.61% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 6
10th Percentile £422 £324 £406
25th Percentile £500 £403 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -10.38% +24.12%
75th Percentile £647 £545 £625
90th Percentile £668 £638 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 131 142 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 35.12% 31.07% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 93 96
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £448 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £445 £594
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £619 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +6 23 £525 +2.94% 91
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 5 (20.83%) Apache
1 5 (20.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) GCP
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Flink
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Tableau
3 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.33%) Hazelcast
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) ERwin
2 2 (8.33%) Jaeger
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) React Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (8.33%) FpML
2 2 (8.33%) gRPC
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) JPA
3 1 (4.17%) jQuery
3 1 (4.17%) MyBatis
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) PMI
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Migration
3 8 (33.33%) Data Management
3 8 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 8 (33.33%) ETL
4 7 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Data Lineage
6 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 5 (20.83%) Workflow
6 5 (20.83%) Workflow Management
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
8 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CBAP
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Control-M
1 2 (8.33%) Grafana
1 2 (8.33%) Istio
1 2 (8.33%) Kiali
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.33%) Sparx
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) xMatters
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft