SQL Contracts in Suffolk

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 1 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 5.48% 1.49% 17.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.53% 8.33% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 19
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +62.50% -37.50%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.49% +13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £55.00 £20.56
% change year-on-year -42.47% +167.51% -41.26%

All Programming Languages
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 12 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 23.29% 17.91% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 41
10th Percentile - £280 £313
25th Percentile £200 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -27.50% -21.88%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £700
90th Percentile £488 £650 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Suffolk

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Suffolk

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Suffolk

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Ipswich - 2 £500 - 7
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Trainer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Express.js
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) MediatR
3 1 (25.00%) NgRx
3 1 (25.00%) RxJS
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) CQRS
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) PayPal
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft