The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 29 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills
28,859
15,162
39,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
40.21%
41.27%
42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted
20,449
10,687
27,316
10th Percentile
£350
£325
£323
25th Percentile
£413
£406
£400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£500
£500
£475
Median % change year-on-year
-
+5.26%
+2.70%
75th Percentile
£606
£588
£575
90th Percentile
£700
£679
£650
UK excluding London median daily rate
£450
£450
£425
% change year-on-year
-
+5.88%
+3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted
470
274
662
10th Percentile
£16.11
£16.08
£20.31
25th Percentile
£25.00
£21.68
£34.00
Median hourly rate
£42.50
£42.50
£44.96
Median % change year-on-year
-
-5.47%
+11.01%
75th Percentile
£55.00
£50.00
£50.97
90th Percentile
£65.28
£57.85
£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£42.25
£42.50
£45.00
% change year-on-year
-0.59%
-5.56%
+11.11%
SQL Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
SQL Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL.
SQL Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 29 July 2021.
SQL Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL.
SQL Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 29 July 2021.
SQL Top 18 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 29 July 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 29 July 2021, IT contractor jobs citing SQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for SQL.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
