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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 16 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 -34
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 57 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.18% 11.70% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.06% 35.63% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 6
10th Percentile £288 £400 £488
25th Percentile £381 £493 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -2.36% +24.71%
75th Percentile £556 £554 £625
90th Percentile £662 £620 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £519
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.61% +15.28%

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 170 160 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.25% 32.85% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 96 92
10th Percentile £350 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -14.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £700
90th Percentile £640 £638 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
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 24 June 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 -15 23 £518 -0.48% 111
Barnsley - 6 £278 - 5
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 8 (27.59%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (20.69%) Apache
3 3 (10.34%) Confluence
4 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Maple
3 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (3.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) GCP
2 11 (37.93%) Power Platform
3 5 (17.24%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.90%) dbt
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Power BI
2 9 (31.03%) Tableau
3 6 (20.69%) BigQuery
4 5 (17.24%) Flink
5 4 (13.79%) Looker
6 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
6 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
7 2 (6.90%) Hazelcast
8 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.45%) Power Query
8 1 (3.45%) QlikView
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Jaeger
3 2 (6.90%) TestRail
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Analyst
2 8 (27.59%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Visualisation Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) QA Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Report Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) React Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) gRPC
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Equities
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.90%) Derivative
2 2 (6.90%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) PMI
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Agile
1 14 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (37.93%) ETL
2 11 (37.93%) Visualisation
3 10 (34.48%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (34.48%) Decision-Making
4 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
4 8 (27.59%) Workflow
5 7 (24.14%) Data Analysis
5 7 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Data Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Data Lineage
7 5 (17.24%) Data Management
7 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Workflow Management
8 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Groovy
4 1 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (3.45%) CBAP
2 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Control-M
1 2 (6.90%) Grafana
1 2 (6.90%) Istio
1 2 (6.90%) Kiali
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Google
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) xMatters
4 1 (3.45%) Cognos
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.45%) SAP