SQL Contracts in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL 135 167 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.24% 9.52% 15.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.84% 31.99% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 128 268
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £401 £389 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.75%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £564
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - £33.60 £13.38
25th Percentile - £39.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +231.03% -38.22%
75th Percentile - £57.00 £15.12
90th Percentile - £62.40 £21.49
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £14.75
% change year-on-year +4.71% +175.19% -35.12%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 424 522 1,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.02% 29.76% 40.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 407 809
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -4.21% +22.94%
75th Percentile £541 £594 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 17
10th Percentile £52.50 £33.25 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £38.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77.75 £57.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £62.55 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
% change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Stockport +3 5 £413 +3.13% 5
Bolton -1 2 £525 - 1
Salford +3 1 £475 - 9
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (2.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.48%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Aareon QL
2 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.37%) Azure
2 30 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 21 (15.56%) AWS
4 11 (8.15%) GCP
5 10 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.67%) Google Analytics
6 9 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.44%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.96%) GitHub
10 4 (2.96%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (2.96%) npm
10 4 (2.96%) Serverless
10 4 (2.96%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.96%) DNS
3 3 (2.22%) DHCP
3 3 (2.22%) Firewall
4 2 (1.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.74%) DAB
5 1 (0.74%) Internet
5 1 (0.74%) NAS
5 1 (0.74%) SAN
5 1 (0.74%) VLAN
5 1 (0.74%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.22%) Power BI
2 24 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 16 (11.85%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 9 (6.67%) Tableau
7 7 (5.19%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.44%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.44%) MySQL
8 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.70%) Data Hub
9 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.96%) Redis
10 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Git
2 6 (4.44%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.70%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.96%) Jasmine
4 4 (2.96%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (2.96%) Mocha
4 4 (2.96%) webpack
5 3 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) JMeter
7 1 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.74%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.74%) RStudio
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.15%) Finance
4 7 (5.19%) Retail
5 5 (3.70%) Marketing
5 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Legal
7 2 (1.48%) Banking
7 2 (1.48%) German Language
7 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.74%) Automotive
8 1 (0.74%) Games
8 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (40.00%) Developer
2 20 (14.81%) Analyst
3 15 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 15 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 10 (7.41%) Architect
4 10 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 9 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 7 (5.19%) .NET Developer
6 7 (5.19%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (4.44%) Senior
7 6 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) C# Developer
8 5 (3.70%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.11%) HTML
2 13 (9.63%) .NET
3 7 (5.19%) Kafka
3 7 (5.19%) Node.js
3 7 (5.19%) RESTful
4 6 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 6 (4.44%) PySpark
4 6 (4.44%) React
5 5 (3.70%) Web Services
6 4 (2.96%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.22%) CSS
8 2 (1.48%) Django
8 2 (1.48%) REST
9 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.74%) JSON
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.74%) Playwright
9 1 (0.74%) pytest
9 1 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.70%) Algorithms
1 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.22%) Data Fabric
3 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.22%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.48%) CMDB
4 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.74%) Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.74%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.74%) Online Games
5 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) zOS
3 2 (1.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (20.74%) Agile
2 28 (20.74%) Analytics
3 26 (19.26%) ETL
4 25 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 18 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 16 (11.85%) Data Modelling
7 15 (11.11%) Code Quality
7 15 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 14 (10.37%) DevOps
9 13 (9.63%) Migration
10 12 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (8.89%) Conversational UI
11 11 (8.15%) Data Integration
11 11 (8.15%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (7.41%) CRM
12 10 (7.41%) Data Visualisation
12 10 (7.41%) E-Commerce
12 10 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.11%) Python
2 26 (19.26%) C#
3 22 (16.30%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.67%) Go
5 9 (6.67%) Java
6 7 (5.19%) Bash
7 5 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.48%) C++
9 2 (1.48%) PHP
9 2 (1.48%) R
9 2 (1.48%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Degree
2 5 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.48%) CCNA
4 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.93%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.22%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) Firmware
4 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 10 (7.41%) Terraform
2 7 (5.19%) Ansible
3 6 (4.44%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.48%) Nagios
4 2 (1.48%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.74%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.63%) Databricks
3 12 (8.89%) PayPal
4 10 (7.41%) Google
5 8 (5.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.19%) Splunk
7 6 (4.44%) Oracle
8 3 (2.22%) Aareon
8 3 (2.22%) F5
9 2 (1.48%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.48%) VMware
10 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.74%) Cisco
10 1 (0.74%) Citrix
10 1 (0.74%) HP
10 1 (0.74%) Nimble Storage
10 1 (0.74%) Teradata
10 1 (0.74%) Veeam