SQL Contracts in Northern Ireland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 17 19 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 9.50% 10.67% 17.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.48% 50.00% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 21
10th Percentile £318 £400 £375
25th Percentile £331 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £435 £475 £560
90th Percentile £485 £519 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 38 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.46% 21.35% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 46
10th Percentile £336 - £373
25th Percentile £418 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +13.96%
75th Percentile £644 £515 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £580
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30.63 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £37.19 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £40.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
County Antrim -1 17 £400 -11.11% 24
SQL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (17.65%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) OCI
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Tableau
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) Impala
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Legal
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Payroll Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Oracle Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Oracle Functional Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Oracle Payroll Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Banking Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) CSS3
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) HTML5
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 2 (11.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Coaching
4 3 (17.65%) ERP
4 3 (17.65%) Presales
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) User Experience
5 2 (11.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) R
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau Certification
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Hyperion
1 3 (17.65%) JD Edwards
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAI