SQL Contracts in Merseyside

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 7 10 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 48 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.21% 15.58% 10.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.06% 67.61% 49.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 41 27
10th Percentile £285 £248 £308
25th Percentile £304 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% -2.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £492 £650 £638
90th Percentile £494 £693 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.20 -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £14.75
% change year-on-year +4.71% +175.19% -35.12%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 49 71 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.12% 23.05% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 61 56
10th Percentile £285 £263 £229
25th Percentile £350 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £597
90th Percentile £540 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.20 -
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Merseyside

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +3 25 £375 -18.92% 27
Southport - 1 £475 - 1
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (19.23%) Power BI
4 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JMeter
1 1 (3.85%) Selenium
1 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 13 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Performance Officer
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 13 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Migration
3 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Data Reconciliation
5 3 (11.54%) Data Science
5 3 (11.54%) Database Migration
5 3 (11.54%) Database Security
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (11.54%) RBAC
5 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.85%) Agile
6 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) C#
1 13 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) PayPal
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) HP