SQL Contracts in Tyne and Wear

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 14 7 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 23 32 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.43% 13.17% 5.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.40% 45.07% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile £359 £374 £370
25th Percentile £396 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £474 £488 £575
90th Percentile £479 £499 £654
North East median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 81 71 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 33.20% 29.22% 49.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 139
10th Percentile £325 £351 £398
25th Percentile £358 £398 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £452 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -20.00% +13.00%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £665
90th Percentile £575 £549 £760
North East median daily rate £438 £465 £565
% change year-on-year -5.81% -17.79% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year +9.47% +16.56% -4.12%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 22 £450 -5.26% 126
Sunderland -2 1 £450 +6.38% 14
SQL
North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (13.04%) OpenEdge
2 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (21.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Kong
6 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
6 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (8.70%) dbt
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.35%) GCP
8 1 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.35%) Stitch
8 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) MySQL
2 5 (21.74%) Data Lake
2 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) Big Data
4 3 (13.04%) Tableau
5 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (8.70%) Metadata
5 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.35%) Power Query
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 4 (17.39%) gulp
2 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Maven
2 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
2 4 (17.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (13.04%) ERwin
4 2 (8.70%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Data Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.70%) Data Visualisation Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) PySpark
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) Apache CXF
2 4 (17.39%) Dropwizard
2 4 (17.39%) Express.js
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
2 4 (17.39%) JAX-RS
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (17.39%) MERN Stack
2 4 (17.39%) Mongoose
2 4 (17.39%) Node.js
2 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (17.39%) React
2 4 (17.39%) Sequelize
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
2 5 (21.74%) Agile
2 5 (21.74%) API Integration
2 5 (21.74%) Data Transformation
2 5 (21.74%) ERP
2 5 (21.74%) Machine Learning
2 5 (21.74%) Visualisation
3 4 (17.39%) Analytics
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
3 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (17.39%) Microservices
3 4 (17.39%) Open Source
3 4 (17.39%) Operational Stability
4 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (13.04%) ETL
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Java
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle