SQL Contracts in Kent

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.54% 9.30% 9.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.82% 51.28% 38.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 24
10th Percentile £510 £383 £344
25th Percentile £525 £500 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £666 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.45% +77.67% -4.46%
75th Percentile £575 £758 £519
90th Percentile £613 £788 £543
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £32.30 £20.75
% change year-on-year +82.37% +55.66% -5.68%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22 39 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 11.11% 18.14% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 60
10th Percentile £325 £371 £357
25th Percentile £375 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% +5.26% +21.02%
75th Percentile £572 £721 £561
90th Percentile £593 £784 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £51.98 £46.94 -
25th Percentile £53.82 £50.38 £49.25
Median hourly rate £58.91 £56.24 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +11.36% +26.25%
75th Percentile £63.98 £56.41 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.80 £56.45 -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -16.17%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Kent 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
Chatham 0 1 £625 -14.68% 5
Dartford 0 1 £550 - 3
Faversham - 1 £500 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (28.57%) Blazor
1 2 (28.57%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) SysML
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 12207