SQL Contracts in the North of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 387 551 805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 8.28% 9.69% 11.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.74% 33.29% 35.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 397 574
10th Percentile £300 £331 £313
25th Percentile £394 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +3.50% +15.94%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £550
90th Percentile £615 £650 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 19
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.69 £14.20
25th Percentile £41.25 £35.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +93.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £45.57 £53.84 £41.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £59.28 £61.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.21% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
North 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 North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,182 1,655 2,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.28% 29.11% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,216 1,720
10th Percentile £324 £350 £326
25th Percentile £400 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 29 40
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.50 £18.47
Median hourly rate £47.75 £49.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +46.27% +28.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -2 240 £475 - 220
Yorkshire -7 114 £450 -10.00% 141
North East +14 33 £475 -5.00% 38
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 19 (4.91%) Apache
2 14 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.33%) SAS
5 8 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.81%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (1.81%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.03%) IIS
9 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.52%) CMS
10 1 (0.26%) Confluence
10 1 (0.26%) Kentico
10 1 (0.26%) nginx
10 1 (0.26%) Site Server
10 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 61 (15.76%) Chatbot
2 22 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.07%) CATIA
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.07%) DELMIA
1 8 (2.07%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.78%) Aareon QL
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.52%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (20.41%) Azure
2 78 (20.16%) Power Platform
3 46 (11.89%) AWS
4 33 (8.53%) Snowflake
5 21 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (4.13%) GCP
7 14 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (3.62%) Serverless
8 13 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.10%) GitHub
9 12 (3.10%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.84%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.58%) Google Analytics
12 9 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.07%) Firewall
2 5 (1.29%) DNS
2 5 (1.29%) FTP
3 4 (1.03%) AMQP
3 4 (1.03%) DHCP
3 4 (1.03%) MQTT
3 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.78%) Modbus
4 3 (0.78%) WAN
5 2 (0.52%) DMZ
5 2 (0.52%) LAN
5 2 (0.52%) NAS
5 2 (0.52%) Network Security
5 2 (0.52%) SAN
5 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.26%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.26%) VLAN
6 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (20.16%) Power BI
2 70 (18.09%) SQL Server
3 45 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (9.30%) Tableau
5 32 (8.27%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 21 (5.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (4.91%) MySQL
9 17 (4.39%) Big Data
10 16 (4.13%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.88%) Relational Database
12 14 (3.62%) BigQuery
13 13 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.84%) Metadata
15 10 (2.58%) MongoDB
15 10 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (2.07%) PowerPivot
17 7 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (1.81%) Qlik Sense
18 6 (1.55%) Flink
Development Applications
1 30 (7.75%) Git
2 21 (5.43%) JIRA
3 9 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
4 6 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.03%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.03%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.03%) Mocha
6 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.03%) webpack
7 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.52%) JMeter
8 2 (0.52%) Selenium
8 2 (0.52%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 69 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.79%) Finance
4 19 (4.91%) Pharmaceutical
5 16 (4.13%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.62%) Retail
7 9 (2.33%) Banking
7 9 (2.33%) Marketing
8 6 (1.55%) Legal
8 6 (1.55%) Publishing
9 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.03%) Automotive
10 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.78%) Law
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.52%) German Language
12 2 (0.52%) Local Government
12 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 157 (40.57%) Developer
2 65 (16.80%) Software Developer
3 61 (15.76%) Analyst
4 43 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 30 (7.75%) Data Engineer
6 25 (6.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 22 (5.68%) Senior
8 19 (4.91%) Lead
9 17 (4.39%) DBA
9 17 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (4.13%) .NET Developer
11 14 (3.62%) Architect
11 14 (3.62%) SQL Developer
12 12 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.58%) Power BI Developer
13 10 (2.58%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.58%) SQL DBA
14 9 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 9 (2.33%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (19.64%) HTML
2 31 (8.01%) .NET
3 15 (3.88%) XML
4 14 (3.62%) CSS
4 14 (3.62%) React
5 12 (3.10%) .NET Core
5 12 (3.10%) AngularJS
5 12 (3.10%) RESTful
6 11 (2.84%) Web Services
7 10 (2.58%) .NET Framework
8 9 (2.33%) Kafka
9 8 (2.07%) JSON
10 7 (1.81%) Node.js
11 6 (1.55%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.55%) Flask
12 5 (1.29%) Blazor
12 5 (1.29%) Entity Framework
12 5 (1.29%) REST
13 4 (1.03%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.33%) Clustering
2 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.07%) NHS
3 7 (1.81%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.81%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.55%) Life Science
4 6 (1.55%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.03%) PKI
7 3 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.78%) IoT
7 3 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.68%) Windows
2 17 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.07%) Unix
4 7 (1.81%) Linux
4 7 (1.81%) VMS
4 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.52%) Android
6 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.52%) HPUX
6 2 (0.52%) Solaris
6 2 (0.52%) zOS
7 1 (0.26%) CentOS
7 1 (0.26%) Fedora
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Rocky
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.00%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (21.71%) Software Engineering
3 64 (16.54%) Code Quality
4 62 (16.02%) Analytics
5 61 (15.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 61 (15.76%) Conversational UI
6 58 (14.99%) ETL
7 56 (14.47%) Agile
8 48 (12.40%) Data Modelling
9 47 (12.14%) Visualisation
10 46 (11.89%) Migration
10 46 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (10.85%) CI/CD
12 32 (8.27%) DevOps
12 32 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (8.01%) Data Visualisation
14 28 (7.24%) Data Analysis
14 28 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (6.98%) Data Engineering
16 26 (6.72%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (35.92%) Python
2 95 (24.55%) C#
3 90 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.46%) PowerShell
5 24 (6.20%) Java
6 14 (3.62%) PL/SQL
7 13 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (3.10%) Bash
9 9 (2.33%) Go
9 9 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.29%) PHP
11 5 (1.29%) R
11 5 (1.29%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (1.29%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.78%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) Bicep
13 2 (0.52%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Julia
Qualifications
1 84 (21.71%) Degree
2 17 (4.39%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.52%) MCSE
7 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.26%) CCNA
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.91%) QA
3 7 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.29%) GAMP
4 5 (1.29%) GxP
5 3 (0.78%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (6.72%) Docker
2 12 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.52%) HDFS
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) ACF2
6 1 (0.26%) Firmware
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) IAG
6 1 (0.26%) RACF
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.10%) Terraform
3 8 (2.07%) Ansible
4 7 (1.81%) Grafana
5 6 (1.55%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.26%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.26%) Graylog
7 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.26%) Nagios
7 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.26%) Rsyslog
7 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.26%) VxRail
7 1 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (15.76%) PayPal
2 57 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.20%) Oracle
4 17 (4.39%) Google
5 14 (3.62%) Databricks
6 13 (3.36%) SAP
6 13 (3.36%) Splunk
6 13 (3.36%) VMware
7 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.07%) Informatica
8 8 (2.07%) Siemens
9 7 (1.81%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.81%) Avaloq
10 6 (1.55%) Dataiku
10 6 (1.55%) Trillium
11 5 (1.29%) Talend
12 3 (0.78%) Aareon
12 3 (0.78%) HP
12 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.52%) Sun