SQL Contracts in Staffordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 11 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -16
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 7.02% 9.03% 3.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 77.78% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile £316 £269 £255
25th Percentile £322 £347 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +3.52% +3.57%
75th Percentile £438 £510 £425
90th Percentile - £528 -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 20 18 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 17.54% 11.61% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 15
10th Percentile £309 £290 £167
25th Percentile £325 £356 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £388 £510 £447
90th Percentile £433 £595 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £467
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.48% +16.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Staffordshire 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
Lichfield +2 3 - - 1
Burton-upon-Trent - 2 £425 - 6
Stoke-on-Trent -4 1 £325 -35.64% 12
Tamworth - 1 - - 5
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) MS Access
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) IFS Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) IFS Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) BREW
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
1 1 (12.50%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Complex ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) IFS
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Sage