SQL Contracts in Stockport

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stockport 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 7 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stockport 11.76% 31.25% 9.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 55.56% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £324 £288
25th Percentile - £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -14.89%
75th Percentile - £575 £475
90th Percentile - £605 £513
Manchester median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%

All Programming Languages
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockport 47.06% 56.25% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
10th Percentile £353 £298 £321
25th Percentile - £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -4.04% +5.32%
75th Percentile - £575 £584
90th Percentile - £592 £669
Manchester median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38.95
25th Percentile - - £39.63
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £47.81
90th Percentile - - £48.38
Manchester median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Stockport

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Stockport

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Stockport

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Stockport

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Stockport

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft