SQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 178 267 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.82% 9.42% 9.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.50% 39.38% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 209 252
10th Percentile £314 £363 £325
25th Percentile £380 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +5.76%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 1
10th Percentile £22.61 £31.06 -
25th Percentile £23.06 £32.30 £77.50
Median hourly rate £42.29 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.59% -12.50% +146.15%
75th Percentile £65.72 £79.19 £82.50
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £32.30 £20.75
% change year-on-year +82.37% +55.66% -5.68%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 516 678 782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.78% 23.92% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 502 572
10th Percentile £343 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £649
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 4
10th Percentile £32.89 £25.64 £63.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £66.15
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £73.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -22.81% +96.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.93
90th Percentile £67.75 £79.41 £81.87
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -13 113 £450 -14.29% 45
Buckinghamshire +10 54 £475 -10.59% 37
Oxfordshire 0 11 £383 -4.38% 24
SQL
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (14.61%) SAS
2 10 (5.62%) Apache
2 10 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) Jadu
4 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.93%) SPSS
3 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Aareon QL
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.56%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.47%) Power Platform
2 39 (21.91%) Azure
3 28 (15.73%) AWS
4 13 (7.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.62%) Azure Functions
5 10 (5.62%) Serverless
6 7 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.37%) PaaS
8 5 (2.81%) Azure API Management
8 5 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.25%) GCP
10 3 (1.69%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.69%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.62%) VPN
2 9 (5.06%) BGP
2 9 (5.06%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (5.06%) MPLS
2 9 (5.06%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.25%) Firewall
4 3 (1.69%) FTP
5 1 (0.56%) SNMP
5 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.66%) Power BI
2 27 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (14.61%) Oracle Database
4 24 (13.48%) SQL Server
5 18 (10.11%) NoSQL
5 18 (10.11%) Tableau
6 16 (8.99%) Oracle Database 11g
7 14 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.18%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.62%) Crystal Reports
9 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.93%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.93%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (2.81%) Big Data
11 5 (2.81%) MySQL
11 5 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.99%) JIRA
2 9 (5.06%) GitLab
2 9 (5.06%) Robot Framework
2 9 (5.06%) TestRail
3 6 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.81%) Git
5 3 (1.69%) Postman
5 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (15.17%) Finance
3 23 (12.92%) Telecoms
4 15 (8.43%) Retail
5 7 (3.93%) Banking
6 6 (3.37%) Corporate Banking
6 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.69%) Local Government
7 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Automotive
8 2 (1.12%) Marketing
8 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (30.90%) Developer
2 39 (21.91%) Analyst
3 26 (14.61%) Data Analyst
4 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (6.74%) Test Engineer
6 11 (6.18%) SQL Developer
7 10 (5.62%) Senior
8 9 (5.06%) Consultant
8 9 (5.06%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) DBA
10 7 (3.93%) C# Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) IFS Developer
10 7 (3.93%) Lead
10 7 (3.93%) SQL Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.37%) SQL Data Analyst
12 5 (2.81%) Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.99%) REST
2 14 (7.87%) SOAP
3 11 (6.18%) XML
4 10 (5.62%) YANG
5 9 (5.06%) NETCONF
5 9 (5.06%) RESTCONF
6 7 (3.93%) .NET
6 7 (3.93%) D3.js
7 5 (2.81%) JSON
8 3 (1.69%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.69%) HTML
8 3 (1.69%) OAuth
8 3 (1.69%) OpenID
9 2 (1.12%) Kafka
9 2 (1.12%) NumPy
9 2 (1.12%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.12%) PySpark
9 2 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.12%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.37%) Housing Association
4 5 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.81%) Smart Meter
5 4 (2.25%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) CCTV
7 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.67%) Unix
2 14 (7.87%) Linux
3 10 (5.62%) Windows
4 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.03%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (21.35%) Analytics
3 30 (16.85%) Agile
3 30 (16.85%) Data Modelling
4 28 (15.73%) DevOps
5 26 (14.61%) Unit Testing
6 25 (14.04%) Migration
7 24 (13.48%) Scrum
8 23 (12.92%) Data Analysis
9 21 (11.80%) Software Testing
9 21 (11.80%) Workflow
10 20 (11.24%) Data Analytics
10 20 (11.24%) ETL
11 19 (10.67%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (10.11%) Data Migration
12 18 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (9.55%) Test Automation
14 16 (8.99%) CI/CD
14 16 (8.99%) Visualisation
15 15 (8.43%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.98%) Python
2 21 (11.80%) PL/SQL
3 16 (8.99%) C#
4 10 (5.62%) Java
5 9 (5.06%) R
6 7 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.81%) VBA
8 3 (1.69%) F#
8 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.69%) Scala
8 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.56%) Bash
10 1 (0.56%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) JCL
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.67%) Degree
3 17 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.49%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.49%) QA
2 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 4 (2.25%) IFRS
3 4 (2.25%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (7.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.81%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Graylog
4 1 (0.56%) Nagios
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (23.03%) Oracle
2 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.62%) IFS
3 10 (5.62%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.37%) Databricks
5 5 (2.81%) Aareon
5 5 (2.81%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.25%) Informatica
7 3 (1.69%) Commvault
7 3 (1.69%) Google
7 3 (1.69%) SAP
7 3 (1.69%) VMware
8 2 (1.12%) Ceridian
8 2 (1.12%) Concur
8 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.56%) Facebook
9 1 (0.56%) Splunk
9 1 (0.56%) Twitter