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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 6 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 21 30 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.79% 13.45% 6.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 45.45% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 13
10th Percentile £408 £332 £338
25th Percentile £419 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £478 £488 £650
90th Percentile £555 £500 £691
North East median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%

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 70 66 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 29.29% 29.60% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 28 96
10th Percentile £327 £340 £391
25th Percentile £375 £379 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -20.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £700
90th Percentile £575 £565 £775
North East median daily rate £450 £463 £560
% change year-on-year -2.70% -17.41% +10.62%
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 £39.34
% change year-on-year +9.47% +20.74% -14.48%

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

SQL
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 30 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 30 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 -6 20 £461 -2.89% 156
Sunderland -3 1 £450 +4.41% 34
SQL
North East

SQL
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 (14.29%) OpenEdge
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) Kong
4 3 (14.29%) dbt
4 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Stitch
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) MySQL
2 7 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
4 5 (23.81%) Power BI
4 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (14.29%) Tableau
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.52%) Metadata
6 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (4.76%) Big Data
7 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (4.76%) Power Query
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) gulp
2 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Maven
2 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
2 4 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) ERwin
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Visualisation Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Node.js
1 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) Apache CXF
3 4 (19.05%) Dropwizard
3 4 (19.05%) Express.js
3 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
3 4 (19.05%) JAX-RS
3 4 (19.05%) Kafka
3 4 (19.05%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (19.05%) MERN Stack
3 4 (19.05%) Mongoose
3 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (19.05%) React
3 4 (19.05%) Sequelize
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) boto
5 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
5 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) ETL
3 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
3 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (19.05%) Microservices
3 4 (19.05%) Open Source
3 4 (19.05%) Operational Stability
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
5 2 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Databricks
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Virgin Media
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle