SQL Developer Contracts in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer daily rate in England is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 381 383
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -48
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 144 277 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 233 373
10th Percentile £370 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +8.25% +9.30%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £791 £703 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £42.02
UK median hourly rate - - £42.02
% change year-on-year - - +40.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +27 86 £600 +4.35% 31
South East +9 22 £525 -4.55% 18
Midlands +15 19 £488 -2.50% 17
West Midlands +17 15 £500 -6.98% 10
North of England +20 14 £450 +2.27% 10
Yorkshire +22 7 £450 -5.26% 3
North West +5 7 £475 +9.83% 7
East Midlands +18 4 £388 +9.15% 7
East of England +5 3 £300 -45.45% 1
South West -6 1 £225 -47.06% 1
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 141 (97.92%) SQL
2 54 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 45 (31.25%) Oracle
4 41 (28.47%) Agile
5 35 (24.31%) PL/SQL
5 35 (24.31%) C#
6 29 (20.14%) Finance
7 27 (18.75%) Azure
8 26 (18.06%) .NET
9 25 (17.36%) DevOps
10 23 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
11 22 (15.28%) Data Modelling
11 22 (15.28%) Java
11 22 (15.28%) Unix
12 20 (13.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (13.19%) Scrum
13 19 (13.19%) SDLC
14 18 (12.50%) Python
15 17 (11.81%) Banking
16 16 (11.11%) Software Engineering
16 16 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
17 15 (10.42%) Oracle Database
17 15 (10.42%) Unit Testing
17 15 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (9.72%) Social Skills
18 14 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
18 14 (9.72%) Git

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.39%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.69%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.69%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.75%) Azure
2 15 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.64%) AWS
5 8 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (4.17%) Serverless
7 5 (3.47%) Azure Functions
7 5 (3.47%) PaaS
8 4 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.08%) OCI
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.39%) Apigee
10 2 (1.39%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.39%) GCP
10 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 20 (13.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 16 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (10.42%) Oracle Database
4 15 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.03%) Power BI
6 11 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
11 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
11 3 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (1.39%) Impala
12 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.39%) OLTP
12 2 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) Git
2 7 (4.86%) Maven
3 6 (4.17%) JIRA
3 6 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.78%) Ant
4 4 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.39%) JUnit
6 2 (1.39%) Mockito
6 2 (1.39%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) GoCD
7 1 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 29 (20.14%) Finance
2 17 (11.81%) Banking
3 14 (9.72%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.78%) Back Office
7 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Local Government
9 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Front Office
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.06%) .NET
2 10 (6.94%) Hibernate
2 10 (6.94%) JPA
3 7 (4.86%) .NET Core
3 7 (4.86%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.08%) React
6 2 (1.39%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.39%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.39%) jQuery
6 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.39%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.39%) REST
6 2 (1.39%) Spring
6 2 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.39%) Swagger
7 1 (0.69%) Ajax
7 1 (0.69%) Web Services
7 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.86%) Market Risk
2 7 (4.86%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.78%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (1.39%) Derivative
5 2 (1.39%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.28%) Unix
2 6 (4.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.47%) Agile
2 25 (17.36%) DevOps
3 23 (15.97%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (15.28%) Data Modelling
5 19 (13.19%) Scrum
5 19 (13.19%) SDLC
6 16 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 15 (10.42%) Unit Testing
8 14 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (9.03%) Migration
9 13 (9.03%) Software Testing
10 12 (8.33%) Physical Data Model
10 12 (8.33%) TDD
11 11 (7.64%) ETL
12 10 (6.94%) CI/CD
12 10 (6.94%) OO
13 9 (6.25%) Database Tuning
14 8 (5.56%) System Testing
15 7 (4.86%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 141 (97.92%) SQL
2 35 (24.31%) C#
2 35 (24.31%) PL/SQL
3 22 (15.28%) Java
4 18 (12.50%) Python
5 14 (9.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 11 (7.64%) Perl
8 7 (4.86%) Bash
8 7 (4.86%) Bourne shell
8 7 (4.86%) Korn
9 4 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.39%) C
10 2 (1.39%) VB
11 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.69%) R
11 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.69%) VBA
11 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.78%) MiFID
2 1 (0.69%) EMIR
2 1 (0.69%) FATCA
2 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 45 (31.25%) Oracle
2 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.47%) Sparx
5 3 (2.08%) SAP
6 2 (1.39%) Murex
7 1 (0.69%) Databricks
7 1 (0.69%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) SimCorp
7 1 (0.69%) Sybase
7 1 (0.69%) Workday