SQL Contracts in the South West

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 161 247 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 4.90% 7.32% 9.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.33% 26.82% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 194 254
10th Percentile £376 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £575
90th Percentile £674 £706 £634
England median daily rate £540 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -1.82% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 9
10th Percentile - £34.16 £32.07
25th Percentile - £52.81 £49.75
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - +8.29% +50.69%
75th Percentile - £76.13 £58.43
90th Percentile - £78.00 £63.60
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 690 921 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.99% 27.30% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 645 758
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 87 67
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £46.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.35 £54.10
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +9.17% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol -8 62 £488 +2.63% 46
Wiltshire -23 37 £538 +7.50% 34
Gloucestershire -12 22 £550 +7.32% 17
Somerset -14 9 £575 +27.78% 34
Dorset -1 5 £398 -38.77% 11
Devon -5 2 £425 -22.73% 22
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 2
SQL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.83%) Confluence
3 5 (3.11%) Umbraco
4 3 (1.86%) CMS
4 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.24%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.62%) Apache
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (7.45%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.86%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.62%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.06%) Azure
2 45 (27.95%) Power Platform
3 21 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (12.42%) AWS
5 11 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.59%) Serverless
7 8 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (4.97%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.97%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.97%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.48%) GCP
10 3 (1.86%) Matillion
10 3 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.86%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.83%) DHCP
1 11 (6.83%) DNS
2 10 (6.21%) Firewall
3 7 (4.35%) Network Security
4 6 (3.73%) AMQP
5 5 (3.11%) Skype
6 2 (1.24%) LAN
6 2 (1.24%) SMTP
6 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.62%) NAS
7 1 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.62%) SAN
7 1 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (27.95%) Power BI
2 37 (22.98%) SQL Server
3 24 (14.91%) Relational Database
4 21 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (9.94%) Tableau
6 12 (7.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (7.45%) Oracle Database
6 12 (7.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (6.83%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (5.59%) Data Lake
9 7 (4.35%) InfluxDB
10 6 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.48%) Biml
11 4 (2.48%) CockroachDB
11 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.86%) Big Data
13 2 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (7.45%) JIRA
2 9 (5.59%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.59%) Visual Studio
3 8 (4.97%) Git
3 8 (4.97%) Postman
4 6 (3.73%) NUnit
5 3 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.24%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.62%) GitLab
7 1 (0.62%) JMeter
7 1 (0.62%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.62%) TestRail
General
1 31 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.32%) Finance
4 11 (6.83%) Military
5 7 (4.35%) Local Government
5 7 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.73%) Marketing
6 6 (3.73%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.86%) Banking
8 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Billing
9 2 (1.24%) Electronics
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (27.33%) Developer
2 26 (16.15%) Data Engineer
3 17 (10.56%) Senior
3 17 (10.56%) Software Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Architect
4 16 (9.94%) Test Engineer
5 9 (5.59%) Analyst
6 8 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Systems Architect
8 6 (3.73%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.94%) HTML
2 15 (9.32%) .NET
3 9 (5.59%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.73%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.73%) REST
5 5 (3.11%) Playwright
6 4 (2.48%) PySpark
6 4 (2.48%) XML
7 3 (1.86%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.86%) CSS
7 3 (1.86%) JPA
7 3 (1.86%) Node.js
7 3 (1.86%) React
7 3 (1.86%) Spring
7 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.24%) JSON
8 2 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.70%) PKI
2 8 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.35%) Blog
3 7 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.35%) Replication
4 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.86%) Housing Association
5 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.62%) Clustering
7 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.04%) Windows
2 19 (11.80%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.32%) Linux
4 11 (6.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (4.97%) VMS
6 6 (3.73%) Unix
7 5 (3.11%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.62%) Android
9 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (21.12%) Data Modelling
3 33 (20.50%) Agile
4 30 (18.63%) ETL
5 26 (16.15%) DevOps
6 20 (12.42%) CI/CD
6 20 (12.42%) Migration
6 20 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (12.42%) Software Engineering
7 16 (9.94%) Test Automation
8 15 (9.32%) Scrum
9 14 (8.70%) Code Quality
10 13 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (8.07%) Regression Testing
10 13 (8.07%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (7.45%) Containerisation
11 12 (7.45%) Conversational UI
11 12 (7.45%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (7.45%) Test Scripting
11 12 (7.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.60%) Python
2 27 (16.77%) C#
3 25 (15.53%) JavaScript
4 19 (11.80%) PL/SQL
5 18 (11.18%) Java
6 14 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.45%) T-SQL
8 10 (6.21%) Go
9 8 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.35%) C
11 4 (2.48%) R
12 2 (1.24%) Bash
12 2 (1.24%) C++
12 2 (1.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.62%) Dart
13 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.62%) ProC
13 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.77%) Degree
4 19 (11.80%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.83%) MCSE
5 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.59%) MCSA
7 9 (5.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.11%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.24%) IBM Certification
10 2 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.62%) HND
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) QA
2 5 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) SLA
3 2 (1.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 20 (12.42%) Docker
3 14 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.86%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (9.94%) Kubernetes
1 16 (9.94%) Terraform
2 10 (6.21%) Grafana
2 10 (6.21%) Prometheus
3 9 (5.59%) Ansible
3 9 (5.59%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (4.97%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.48%) SCCM
7 2 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.24%) OPNET
7 2 (1.24%) SCOM
7 2 (1.24%) WSUS
8 1 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.62%) Kibana
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.62%) rkt
Vendors
1 33 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.66%) Oracle
3 15 (9.32%) VMware
4 12 (7.45%) PayPal
5 9 (5.59%) SAP
6 8 (4.97%) CA
7 6 (3.73%) Databricks
8 5 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.86%) NEC
10 2 (1.24%) Google
10 2 (1.24%) IBM
10 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.24%) Remedy
10 2 (1.24%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.24%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.62%) Adobe
11 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.62%) Infor
11 1 (0.62%) Marketo
11 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow