SQL Contracts in Northern Ireland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 13 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.97% 12.95% 14.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.14% 49.02% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £317 £400 £278
25th Percentile £328 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £435 £481 £494
90th Percentile £436 £533 £560
UK median daily rate £538 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +1.90% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.00% +42.86% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 51 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.14% 26.42% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 43
10th Percentile £329 £400 £371
25th Percentile £394 £406 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.22% +12.53%
75th Percentile £619 £544 £531
90th Percentile £675 £650 £560
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £19.02 - -
25th Percentile £23.37 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Northern Ireland

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -5 13 £400 -11.11% 27
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (15.38%) Serverless
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Tableau
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Impala
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Dashboard Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS3
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Analytics
2 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Experience
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 2 (15.38%) UX Design
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Tableau Certification