SQL Contracts in the East Midlands

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 13 13 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 70 113 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.15% 11.14% 11.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.90% 36.93% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 96 115
10th Percentile £263 £223 £263
25th Percentile £356 £329 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £398
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +0.63% +6.00%
75th Percentile £539 £480 £488
90th Percentile £622 £538 £519
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £12.63 £31.18 £18.58
25th Percentile £21.73 £38.24 £33.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £33.25 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £44.44 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.62% +42.24% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 195 306 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.49% 30.18% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 259 301
10th Percentile £278 £300 £313
25th Percentile £356 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £415
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.42% +10.67%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £600 £700 £569
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 16
10th Percentile £15.66 £20.39 £19.42
25th Percentile £22.12 £26.48 £28.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £31.00 £54.38 -
90th Percentile £40.71 £61.00 £45.84
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +3 19 £340 -28.42% 38
Northamptonshire -3 18 £388 -3.13% 23
Leicestershire -2 15 £375 +0.33% 31
Derbyshire +8 10 £488 +8.33% 22
Lincolnshire +17 8 £525 - 12
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.86%) SAS
3 1 (1.43%) Appian
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.43%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.29%) AWS
5 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.86%) dbt
6 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.43%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) IaaS
7 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) VoIP
3 2 (2.86%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) Network Security
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) Power BI
2 10 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 7 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.57%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (7.14%) Impala
6 4 (5.71%) Big Data
6 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
6 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.29%) Tableau
8 2 (2.86%) MySQL
8 2 (2.86%) OLAP
8 2 (2.86%) SAP HANA
8 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.86%) Selenium
2 2 (2.86%) TestRail
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Front Office
6 2 (2.86%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Police
6 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Developer
2 22 (31.43%) Analyst
3 13 (18.57%) Software Developer
4 11 (15.71%) Data Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Architect
6 5 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior
7 4 (5.71%) SQL Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Storage Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Business Data Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Process Mapping Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
3 2 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.86%) Vue
4 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.43%) CSS
4 1 (1.43%) Kafka
4 1 (1.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) React
4 1 (1.43%) SPFx
4 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) HP Storage
1 5 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.86%) Wiki
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) FMCG
4 1 (1.43%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Windows
2 6 (8.57%) Linux
3 5 (7.14%) AIX
3 5 (7.14%) Solaris
4 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.86%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (20.00%) Agile
3 13 (18.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 13 (18.57%) Code Quality
3 13 (18.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (17.14%) Conversational UI
4 12 (17.14%) Data Modelling
4 12 (17.14%) Software Engineering
5 11 (15.71%) Analytics
6 8 (11.43%) Data Analytics
6 8 (11.43%) ETL
7 7 (10.00%) Logistic Regression
7 7 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (8.57%) Migration
8 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.57%) Statistics
9 5 (7.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.57%) Python
2 20 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.86%) C#
4 7 (10.00%) R
5 5 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.86%) Bash
7 2 (2.86%) Java
7 2 (2.86%) Scala
8 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.43%) PHP
8 1 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) VB
8 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (27.14%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.86%) MCSE
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) ISEB
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.43%) MCITP
6 1 (1.43%) MCTS
6 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (7.14%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (7.14%) NetBackup
2 3 (4.29%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 12 (17.14%) PayPal
3 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.57%) Databricks
4 6 (8.57%) EMC
5 5 (7.14%) Brocade
5 5 (7.14%) Cisco
5 5 (7.14%) HP
5 5 (7.14%) Symantec
6 2 (2.86%) SAP
7 1 (1.43%) Sage
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk