SQL Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

SQL Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 121 146
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 -16
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 10 29 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 1.00% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 1.06% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 15
10th Percentile £459 £385 £328
25th Percentile £475 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +47.54%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £580
90th Percentile £625 £625 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £513 £420
% change year-on-year +2.44% +22.02% +29.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,481 2,738 3,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,897 2,307
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 100
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £58.26
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the Thames Valley

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the Thames Valley

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the Thames Valley

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the Thames Valley

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 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
Buckinghamshire +25 7 £475 -20.83% 1
Berkshire -24 2 £513 +5.67% 2
Oxfordshire +6 1 £525 +48.94%
SQL Developer
South East

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Postman
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (20.00%) API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Swagger
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) SOLID
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (20.00%) PaaS
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Impala
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) OLTP
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) API Management
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) SOLID
2 2 (20.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) VBA
4 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle