SQL Contracts in the East of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 82 160 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.34% 8.00% 10.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.35% 26.89% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 121 166
10th Percentile £263 £237 £263
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £491
90th Percentile £630 £600 £631
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.23% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 18
10th Percentile £24.00 £19.66 £12.62
25th Percentile £35.50 £21.05 £26.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -14.29% +59.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.13 £49.44
90th Percentile - £65.25 £71.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.69% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 403 595 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.32% 29.75% 30.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 342 455
10th Percentile £314 £301 £296
25th Percentile £405 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £686 £638
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 101 87
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.53 £77.00 £67.92
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Hertfordshire -13 36 £450 -5.26% 55
Essex +2 19 £300 +22.75% 31
Cambridgeshire -14 17 £475 +5.56% 40
Bedfordshire -24 4 £410 -18.61% 18
Norfolk +7 3 £204 -32.00% 17
Suffolk 0 3 £550 +37.50% 6
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (7.32%) IIS
2 3 (3.66%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.44%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.39%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.20%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) Azure
3 5 (6.10%) Google Sheets
3 5 (6.10%) Power Automate
3 5 (6.10%) SaaS
3 5 (6.10%) Serverless
4 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
4 4 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.44%) dbt
6 2 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Power BI
2 11 (13.41%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.10%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.10%) GIS
5 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (6.10%) Tableau
6 4 (4.88%) QlikView
7 3 (3.66%) Big Data
7 3 (3.66%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.66%) Looker
7 3 (3.66%) MySQL
7 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.44%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.44%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 9 (10.98%) JIRA
3 7 (8.54%) JUnit
3 7 (8.54%) Mockito
4 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.44%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.22%) Maven
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.07%) Finance
4 9 (10.98%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.54%) Retail
6 6 (7.32%) Marketing
7 5 (6.10%) Back Office
7 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.88%) Games
8 4 (4.88%) Urdu Language
9 3 (3.66%) Automotive
9 3 (3.66%) Local Government
9 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.44%) Military
11 1 (1.22%) Aviation
11 1 (1.22%) Law
11 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Developer
2 11 (13.41%) Architect
3 8 (9.76%) Data Architect
4 7 (8.54%) Senior
5 6 (7.32%) Analyst
5 6 (7.32%) Applications Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Digital Transformation
6 5 (6.10%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.88%) Systems Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (3.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) .NET
1 10 (12.20%) HTML
1 10 (12.20%) REST
2 8 (9.76%) CSS
2 8 (9.76%) Spring
2 8 (9.76%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.54%) Drools
3 7 (8.54%) Quarkus
3 7 (8.54%) RESTful
4 4 (4.88%) React
5 3 (3.66%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (3.66%) Visualforce
6 2 (2.44%) Kafka
6 2 (2.44%) Node.js
6 2 (2.44%) Web Services
7 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.22%) Java Concurrency
7 1 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.88%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.22%) FMCG
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) PropTech
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
1 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (17.07%) Agile
4 13 (15.85%) ETL
5 12 (14.63%) Data Management
6 11 (13.41%) Migration
7 10 (12.20%) Scrum
8 9 (10.98%) Use Case
8 9 (10.98%) Validation
8 9 (10.98%) Web Development
9 8 (9.76%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.76%) Verification and Validation
9 8 (9.76%) Visualisation
10 7 (8.54%) Change Management
10 7 (8.54%) Containerisation
10 7 (8.54%) Content Development
10 7 (8.54%) Data Analysis
10 7 (8.54%) Decision Table
10 7 (8.54%) Microservices
10 7 (8.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.17%) Java
2 18 (21.95%) Python
3 9 (10.98%) C#
4 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.32%) C
6 3 (3.66%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.44%) PHP
7 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.44%) R
7 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.44%) VB
7 2 (2.44%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.22%) Bash
8 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.54%) Degree
2 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.66%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) SLA
3 2 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.76%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (8.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) SCCM
2 2 (2.44%) SCOM
3 1 (1.22%) Ansible
3 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.22%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.66%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (3.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.44%) F5
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.22%) Trillium
6 1 (1.22%) Twitter