SQL Contracts in the East of England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 24 14
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 81 142 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.19% 7.28% 9.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.61% 24.91% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 113 159
10th Percentile £263 £275 £263
25th Percentile £323 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -
75th Percentile £553 £538 £525
90th Percentile £629 £600 £649
England median daily rate £545 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -0.91% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 18
10th Percentile £23.13 £28.75 £12.62
25th Percentile £26.88 £41.03 £26.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +80.00% +78.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.25 £53.63
90th Percentile - £65.70 £71.23
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 413 570 763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.34% 29.23% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 339 455
10th Percentile £313 £315 £299
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +4.40%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £599
90th Percentile £638 £700 £652
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 93 90
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 £68.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire -16 36 £450 -5.26% 29
Essex +12 19 £300 +23.20% 25
Cambridgeshire -7 18 £475 +5.56% 36
Bedfordshire -23 4 £410 -21.15% 6
Norfolk +6 3 £204 -32.00% 6
Suffolk +1 1 £650 +62.50% 9
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 7 (8.64%) IIS
2 4 (4.94%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.47%) SAS
4 1 (1.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) CMS
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) PTC Creo
3 1 (1.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.88%) AWS
3 5 (6.17%) Google Sheets
3 5 (6.17%) Power Automate
3 5 (6.17%) SaaS
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.94%) PowerApps
4 4 (4.94%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.70%) Azure
5 3 (3.70%) Serverless
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.47%) dbt
6 2 (2.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) Power BI
2 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
3 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.17%) GIS
5 5 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (6.17%) Tableau
6 4 (4.94%) Data Mining
6 4 (4.94%) QlikView
7 3 (3.70%) MySQL
7 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.47%) Looker
8 2 (2.47%) MariaDB
8 2 (2.47%) MS Access
8 2 (2.47%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Git
2 8 (9.88%) JIRA
3 7 (8.64%) JUnit
3 7 (8.64%) Mockito
3 7 (8.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.28%) Finance
4 9 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 7 (8.64%) Retail
6 5 (6.17%) Back Office
6 5 (6.17%) Marketing
7 4 (4.94%) Games
7 4 (4.94%) Local Government
7 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.94%) Urdu Language
8 3 (3.70%) Automotive
9 2 (2.47%) Military
10 1 (1.23%) Aviation
10 1 (1.23%) Law
10 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Developer
2 11 (13.58%) Architect
3 8 (9.88%) Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Data Architect
4 7 (8.64%) Data Analyst
4 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Applications Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.17%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Digital Transformation
6 5 (6.17%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
7 4 (4.94%) SQL Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) HTML
2 9 (11.11%) .NET
3 8 (9.88%) CSS
3 8 (9.88%) REST
3 8 (9.88%) Spring
3 8 (9.88%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.64%) Drools
4 7 (8.64%) Quarkus
4 7 (8.64%) RESTful
5 4 (4.94%) Web Services
6 3 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (3.70%) React
6 3 (3.70%) Visualforce
7 2 (2.47%) Kafka
7 2 (2.47%) Node.js
8 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.23%) HTML5
8 1 (1.23%) Java Concurrency
8 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.94%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) FMCG
6 1 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.23%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Windows
1 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.23%) VMS
2 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.69%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (14.81%) Agile
3 12 (14.81%) Data Management
4 10 (12.35%) ETL
4 10 (12.35%) Migration
5 9 (11.11%) Change Management
5 9 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 9 (11.11%) Use Case
5 9 (11.11%) Validation
5 9 (11.11%) Web Development
6 8 (9.88%) Scrum
6 8 (9.88%) Verification and Validation
7 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
7 7 (8.64%) Content Development
7 7 (8.64%) Decision Table
7 7 (8.64%) Microservices
7 7 (8.64%) TDD
7 7 (8.64%) Visualisation
8 6 (7.41%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.22%) Java
2 15 (18.52%) Python
3 7 (8.64%) C#
3 7 (8.64%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.41%) C
5 3 (3.70%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.70%) R
6 2 (2.47%) PHP
6 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.47%) VB
6 2 (2.47%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.64%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.47%) PMP
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.17%) SLA
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.88%) Docker
2 5 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.23%) Puppet
2 1 (1.23%) SCCM
2 1 (1.23%) SCOM
2 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle
3 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.70%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.47%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.23%) F5
6 1 (1.23%) IBM
6 1 (1.23%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.23%) Sybase
6 1 (1.23%) Trillium
6 1 (1.23%) Twitter
6 1 (1.23%) VMware