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 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 10 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 85 111 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.46% 11.03% 10.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.28% 35.69% 39.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 94 108
10th Percentile £279 £223 £263
25th Percentile £358 £339 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £473 £488 £489
90th Percentile £604 £538 £538
England median daily rate £545 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -0.91% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile £11.11 £31.18 £16.93
25th Percentile £17.94 £38.24 £28.08
Median hourly rate £24.62 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £34.54 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £44.96 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%

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 211 311 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.95% 30.91% 27.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 260 303
10th Percentile £274 £300 £313
25th Percentile £356 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £433
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +2.89% +15.33%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £500
90th Percentile £600 £700 £568
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £14.15 £21.91 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.92 £26.48 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £28.44 £54.06 -
90th Percentile £40.33 £59.50 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 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
Northamptonshire 0 28 £400 - 22
Nottinghamshire +3 25 £445 -6.32% 34
Leicestershire 0 16 £388 - 30
Derbyshire +2 10 £488 +5.41% 15
Lincolnshire +14 6 £625 +19.05% 13
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 8 (9.41%) SAS
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Appian
4 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.18%) Azure
2 15 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.24%) AWS
3 7 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (8.24%) dbt
4 4 (4.71%) Fivetran
4 4 (4.71%) GitHub
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.71%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.35%) Serverless
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.18%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.18%) IaaS
7 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (5.88%) SAN
3 2 (2.35%) DNS
3 2 (2.35%) VoIP
3 2 (2.35%) VPN
3 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.18%) Bluetooth
4 1 (1.18%) Network Security
4 1 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) Power BI
1 14 (16.47%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.24%) Hadoop
4 6 (7.06%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.06%) Tableau
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.88%) Impala
6 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
6 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.71%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (4.71%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.53%) Big Data
8 2 (2.35%) OLAP
8 2 (2.35%) SAP HANA
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.35%) Selenium
2 2 (2.35%) TestRail
3 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 15 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Marketing
5 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Front Office
6 2 (2.35%) Police
6 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) Back Office
7 1 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.18%) Games
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (31.76%) Analyst
2 24 (28.24%) Developer
3 12 (14.12%) Software Developer
4 11 (12.94%) Data Analyst
4 11 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (4.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) DBA
7 4 (4.71%) PL/SQL Developer
7 4 (4.71%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Administrator
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) SQL DBA
8 3 (3.53%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.82%) HTML
2 6 (7.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.53%) CSS
4 2 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.35%) Vue
5 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.18%) Kafka
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) React
5 1 (1.18%) SPFx
5 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) HP Storage
1 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.71%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.35%) Wiki
5 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.18%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.18%) Clustering
5 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.29%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 5 (5.88%) AIX
3 5 (5.88%) Solaris
4 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.35%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.18%) Android
7 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (17.65%) Agile
2 15 (17.65%) Analytics
2 15 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 14 (16.47%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (15.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (15.29%) Code Quality
5 12 (14.12%) Conversational UI
5 12 (14.12%) Software Engineering
6 9 (10.59%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (9.41%) Data Analytics
7 8 (9.41%) ETL
7 8 (9.41%) Migration
8 7 (8.24%) Logistic Regression
8 7 (8.24%) Project Delivery
9 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.06%) Statistics
9 6 (7.06%) Waterfall
10 5 (5.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (30.59%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) JavaScript
3 16 (18.82%) C#
4 7 (8.24%) R
5 6 (7.06%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.88%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.35%) Bash
9 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.18%) Java
9 1 (1.18%) PHP
9 1 (1.18%) Scala
9 1 (1.18%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.18%) VB
9 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) Degree
2 11 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.35%) MCSE
7 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.18%) ISEB
7 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.18%) MCITP
7 1 (1.18%) MCTS
7 1 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
1 5 (5.88%) HP Data Protector
1 5 (5.88%) NetBackup
2 4 (4.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Oracle
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.12%) PayPal
3 6 (7.06%) Databricks
3 6 (7.06%) EMC
4 5 (5.88%) Brocade
4 5 (5.88%) Cisco
4 5 (5.88%) HP
4 5 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.88%) Symantec
5 2 (2.35%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Sage
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk