SQL Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 336 321
Rank change year-on-year +13 -15 -24
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 71 106 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.46% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 90 169
10th Percentile £327 £348 £313
25th Percentile £396 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £536 £563 £550
90th Percentile £607 £626 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £42.02
% change year-on-year - - +40.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,181 21,601 29,418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 15,029 20,712
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,082 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.76 £18.01 £14.78
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +3 21 £513 -6.82% 11
Midlands +22 19 £488 -7.14% 8
West Midlands +13 15 £500 -6.98% 7
North of England +13 13 £450 +2.27% 5
Scotland +47 8 £463 -2.63% 3
Wales +29 8 £486 +29.67% 1
North West -3 7 £475 +9.83% 3
Yorkshire +17 6 £450 -5.26% 2
East Midlands +11 4 £388 +9.15% 1
East of England +2 4 £300 -45.45% 1
South West -2 1 £225 -43.75% 1
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) SQL
2 30 (42.25%) Oracle
3 25 (35.21%) PL/SQL
4 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
5 17 (23.94%) Agile
6 15 (21.13%) Unix
7 14 (19.72%) Azure
8 13 (18.31%) Software Testing
9 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
9 12 (16.90%) Scrum
9 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
9 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (15.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (14.08%) Git
11 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
12 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 9 (12.68%) DevOps
12 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
13 8 (11.27%) System Testing
13 8 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
14 7 (9.86%) T-SQL
14 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
14 7 (9.86%) JIRA
14 7 (9.86%) Korn
14 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
14 7 (9.86%) Bash
14 7 (9.86%) Public Sector

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (1.41%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.04%) AWS
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Functions
5 4 (5.63%) Serverless
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.23%) OCI
7 2 (2.82%) Apigee
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.82%) GCP
7 2 (2.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.41%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (9.86%) Oracle Database
4 7 (9.86%) Power BI
4 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.23%) Impala
7 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (2.82%) OLTP
7 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.82%) Tableau
8 1 (1.41%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) JIRA
3 5 (7.04%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (7.04%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.63%) Ant
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Postman
General
1 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) .NET
2 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.41%) Ajax
3 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.41%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.41%) HTML
3 1 (1.41%) jQuery
3 1 (1.41%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.41%) React
3 1 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) Swagger
3 1 (1.41%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Agile
2 13 (18.31%) Software Testing
3 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (16.90%) Scrum
4 9 (12.68%) DevOps
4 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (11.27%) System Testing
6 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.45%) ETL
7 6 (8.45%) Migration
7 6 (8.45%) Unit Testing
8 5 (7.04%) CAFM
8 5 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.63%) Analytics
9 4 (5.63%) Data Integration
9 4 (5.63%) Database Security
9 4 (5.63%) SOLID
9 4 (5.63%) TDD
9 4 (5.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) SQL
2 25 (35.21%) PL/SQL
3 7 (9.86%) Bash
3 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
3 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.86%) Korn
3 7 (9.86%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.63%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) C#
6 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.82%) VB
7 1 (1.41%) VBA
7 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Oracle
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) RedGate
4 1 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) Sybase
4 1 (1.41%) Workday