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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 22 September 2019 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 (Structured Query Language) UK |
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6 months to
22 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
4 |
6 |
6 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+2 |
0 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing SQL |
11,176 |
13,499 |
13,116 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
12.80% |
13.24% |
13.29% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
30.37% |
29.79% |
31.73% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,795 |
9,402 |
8,958 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£309 |
£300 |
£285 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£625 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£413 |
£400 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.13% |
+6.67% |
+6.99% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
149 |
191 |
239 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£35.07 |
£24.08 |
£27.16 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+45.62% |
-11.34% |
-7.74% |
| 10th Percentile |
£14.61 |
£11.50 |
£12.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£57.05 |
£55.00 |
£52.60 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.28 |
£22.83 |
£30.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+54.54% |
-23.90% |
+1.69% |
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.
| All Programming Languages UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills |
36,799 |
45,319 |
41,332 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
42.14% |
44.46% |
41.87% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
25,471 |
31,859 |
28,514 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£320 |
£313 |
£306 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£415 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.41% |
+3.75% |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
664 |
723 |
780 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£41.50 |
£40.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.02% |
+3.75% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£20.31 |
£16.25 |
£15.79 |
| 90th Percentile |
£56.18 |
£52.50 |
£53.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£41.92 |
£40.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.96% |
+4.81% |
+6.67% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing SQL as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SQL.
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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL over the 6 months to 22 September 2019.
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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 22 September 2019. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 22 September 2019, 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.
| 1 |
3,392 (30.35%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,941 (26.32%) |
SQL Server |
| 3 |
2,346 (20.99%) |
Finance |
| 4 |
2,298 (20.56%) |
Azure |
| 5 |
2,259 (20.21%) |
C# |
| 6 |
2,235 (20.00%) |
Oracle |
| 7 |
2,192 (19.61%) |
Microsoft |
| 8 |
2,137 (19.12%) |
.NET |
| 9 |
1,990 (17.81%) |
Java |
| 10 |
1,983 (17.74%) |
Python |
| 11 |
1,862 (16.66%) |
Business Intelligence |
| 12 |
1,715 (15.35%) |
JavaScript |
| 13 |
1,529 (13.68%) |
ETL |
| 14 |
1,448 (12.96%) |
Data Warehouse |
| 15 |
1,306 (11.69%) |
SQL Server Integration Services |
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| 16 |
1,300 (11.63%) |
Windows |
| 17 |
1,285 (11.50%) |
DevOps |
| 18 |
1,275 (11.41%) |
Analytics |
| 19 |
1,268 (11.35%) |
AWS |
| 20 |
1,154 (10.33%) |
Linux |
| 21 |
1,141 (10.21%) |
Migration |
| 22 |
1,116 (9.99%) |
Power Platform |
| 23 |
1,097 (9.82%) |
Data Modelling |
| 24 |
1,089 (9.74%) |
HTML |
| 25 |
1,082 (9.68%) |
T-SQL |
| 26 |
1,077 (9.64%) |
Power BI |
| 27 |
1,049 (9.39%) |
Analytical Skills |
| 28 |
1,036 (9.27%) |
Git (software) |
| 29 |
1,007 (9.01%) |
Scrum |
| 30 |
973 (8.71%) |
Problem-Solving |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
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:
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