SQL Contracts in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 58 94 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.43% 8.17% 9.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.42% 27.25% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 69 97
10th Percentile £340 £350 £370
25th Percentile £406 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £638
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £56.12
25th Percentile - £53.75 £58.93
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - -9.59% +165.00%
75th Percentile - £61.25 -
90th Percentile - £64.10 -
South West median hourly rate - £58.75 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +8.29% +48.90%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 advertised in Bristol with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 284 345 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 26.57% 30.00% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 243 328
10th Percentile £313 £350 £366
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £675 £630
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 40
10th Percentile £52.50 £56.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.91 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £70.23 -
90th Percentile £78.70 £70.30 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +26.32%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.17%) CMS
2 3 (5.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (20.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) Azure
2 16 (27.59%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.90%) AWS
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.45%) GCP
8 2 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.59%) Power BI
2 9 (15.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle Database
3 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) Tableau
6 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.72%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Power Query
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Git
1 5 (8.62%) NUnit
1 5 (8.62%) Postman
1 5 (8.62%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Selenium
2 1 (1.72%) TestRail
General
1 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.62%) Tech for Good
3 4 (6.90%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Local Government
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Electronics
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Software Developer
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Oracle Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.17%) Umbraco Developer
10 2 (3.45%) Analyst
10 2 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) HTML
2 11 (18.97%) .NET
3 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
3 6 (10.34%) GraphQL
4 5 (8.62%) Playwright
5 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (5.17%) CSS
5 3 (5.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.45%) Node.js
6 2 (3.45%) React
7 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.72%) Flutter
7 1 (1.72%) gRPC
7 1 (1.72%) JCE
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Blog
1 7 (12.07%) Replication
2 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) VMS
2 1 (1.72%) Android
2 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (24.14%) Software Engineering
3 12 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (20.69%) Code Quality
3 12 (20.69%) Conversational UI
3 12 (20.69%) DevOps
4 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
5 8 (13.79%) Agile
5 8 (13.79%) ETL
5 8 (13.79%) TDD
6 7 (12.07%) BDD
6 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
6 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (12.07%) Migration
6 7 (12.07%) Security Management
6 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.34%) Full Stack Development
7 6 (10.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 18 (31.03%) C#
3 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.97%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.79%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Java
7 3 (5.17%) Go
8 2 (3.45%) R
8 2 (3.45%) Scala
9 1 (1.72%) Dart
9 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Degree
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) SAP Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) IBM Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) Docker
3 6 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) rkt
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) PayPal
2 10 (17.24%) Oracle
3 9 (15.52%) SAP
4 6 (10.34%) CA
5 4 (6.90%) Databricks
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow