SQL Contracts in Staffordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.70% 10.39% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.45% 76.19% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 6
10th Percentile £319 £269 £255
25th Percentile £347 £347 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £363
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +3.52% +22.88%
75th Percentile £438 £510 £425
90th Percentile £506 £528 -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.93 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.15 £25.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +27.33% +44.29% +4.04%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 19.13% 13.64% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 15
10th Percentile £310 £290 £167
25th Percentile £325 £356 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £425 £510 £447
90th Percentile £438 £595 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.93 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £58.00
% change year-on-year +96.13% -49.45% +135.39%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Lichfield +2 4 £550 +58.05% 1
Burton-upon-Trent - 3 £425 - 5
Stoke-on-Trent -3 1 £325 -35.64% 8
Stafford - 1 - - 1
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (20.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) MS Access
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) IFS Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) IFS Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) BREW
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (20.00%) OO
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
4 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IFS
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sage