SQL Contracts in the City of London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 280 566 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.83% 15.55% 14.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.48% 36.05% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 351 468
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £486 £490 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £675
90th Percentile £774 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £48.38
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -7.89% +107.27%
75th Percentile £50.25 £53.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - - £74.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -7.62% -7.89% +123.75%

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 747 1,570 1,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.23% 43.13% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 1,023 1,469
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £710
90th Percentile £799 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -9.64% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (2.14%) Apache
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.07%) MTS
6 2 (0.71%) CMS
6 2 (0.71%) IIS
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) Tornado
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.14%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.57%) Dynamics GP
2 6 (2.14%) Endur
3 5 (1.79%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.07%) Aligne
4 3 (1.07%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.71%) MIS ActiveH
5 2 (0.71%) Primavera
5 2 (0.71%) Unica
6 1 (0.36%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 82 (29.29%) Azure
2 58 (20.71%) AWS
3 40 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.93%) Serverless
5 21 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.00%) GitHub
8 10 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.86%) Azure Functions
9 8 (2.86%) GCP
10 7 (2.50%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (2.50%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Storage
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.07%) DNS
2 3 (1.07%) WAN
3 2 (0.71%) SAN
3 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) MQTT
4 1 (0.36%) NAS
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) Skype
4 1 (0.36%) SSL
4 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 38 (13.57%) Power BI
3 28 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.21%) NoSQL
5 22 (7.86%) Relational Database
6 18 (6.43%) Tableau
7 16 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (4.64%) Data Lake
10 11 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.93%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.93%) MongoDB
11 10 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.21%) Big Data
12 9 (3.21%) Parquet
13 7 (2.50%) Data Mart
13 7 (2.50%) MySQL
14 6 (2.14%) KDB
14 6 (2.14%) Oracle Database
15 5 (1.79%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 16 (5.71%) Git
2 9 (3.21%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.50%) GitLab
3 7 (2.50%) JIRA
3 7 (2.50%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.79%) Selenium
5 4 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.43%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.07%) Mercurial
6 3 (1.07%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.71%) JMeter
7 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 2 (0.71%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) NUnit
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 93 (33.21%) Finance
2 73 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.21%) Banking
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.21%) Investment Banking
6 18 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.00%) Front Office
8 10 (3.57%) Retail Banking
9 9 (3.21%) Back Office
10 7 (2.50%) Marketing
11 6 (2.14%) Retail
12 4 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.07%) Agriculture
13 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (31.79%) Developer
2 55 (19.64%) Analyst
3 35 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 26 (9.29%) Senior
5 23 (8.21%) Business Analyst
6 20 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
7 19 (6.79%) Data Analyst
8 17 (6.07%) Consultant
9 16 (5.71%) Python Developer
10 13 (4.64%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.57%) SQL Developer
12 9 (3.21%) Architect
12 9 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.21%) Great Plains Consultant
12 9 (3.21%) Lead
12 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Consultant
12 9 (3.21%) Test Analyst
13 7 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
13 7 (2.50%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.86%) .NET
2 21 (7.50%) Kafka
3 18 (6.43%) React
4 13 (4.64%) HTML
5 12 (4.29%) JSON
6 10 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.57%) PySpark
6 10 (3.57%) Web Services
7 9 (3.21%) Apache Avro
8 8 (2.86%) CSS
8 8 (2.86%) RESTful
9 7 (2.50%) .NET Framework
9 7 (2.50%) pytest
10 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.14%) Blazor
10 6 (2.14%) Node.js
10 6 (2.14%) REST
10 6 (2.14%) Svelte
10 6 (2.14%) WCF
11 5 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.36%) Market Risk
2 12 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.14%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.79%) Replication
9 4 (1.43%) Derivative
10 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.71%) CMDB
11 2 (0.71%) Equities
11 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.71%) Life Science
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.71%) PKI
11 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.07%) Windows
2 17 (6.07%) Linux
3 12 (4.29%) Unix
4 10 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (24.29%) Agile
2 48 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (17.14%) DevOps
3 44 (15.71%) Data Modelling
4 40 (14.29%) Analytics
4 40 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.57%) CI/CD
6 35 (12.50%) SDLC
7 33 (11.79%) Software Engineering
8 30 (10.71%) ETL
8 30 (10.71%) Migration
9 29 (10.36%) Test Automation
10 26 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (9.29%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (9.29%) Visualisation
11 24 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (8.21%) Data Analysis
12 23 (8.21%) Microservices
13 22 (7.86%) Data Visualisation
14 18 (6.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 102 (36.43%) Python
2 48 (17.14%) C#
3 28 (10.00%) Java
4 27 (9.64%) PowerShell
5 25 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.07%) T-SQL
7 11 (3.93%) PL/SQL
7 11 (3.93%) R
8 10 (3.57%) C++
9 8 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.86%) Perl
9 8 (2.86%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.50%) Go
11 5 (1.79%) Scala
12 4 (1.43%) PHP
12 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.07%) Bash
13 3 (1.07%) Bicep
13 3 (1.07%) Rust
14 2 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 36 (12.86%) Degree
2 21 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.43%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.07%) ISEB
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CIMA
7 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.36%) PMP
8 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.64%) QA
2 14 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.79%) SLA
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.43%) PMO
6 2 (0.71%) EMIR
6 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (7.50%) Docker
2 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) HDFS
6 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.57%) Terraform
3 2 (0.71%) SCCM
4 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.36%) vRealize
4 1 (0.36%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.21%) Oracle
3 22 (7.86%) Databricks
4 11 (3.93%) SAP
5 6 (2.14%) IBM
5 6 (2.14%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.14%) Sybase
6 5 (1.79%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.79%) Citrix
6 5 (1.79%) Google
6 5 (1.79%) NEC
6 5 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) Veritas
6 5 (1.79%) VMware
7 4 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.43%) Siebel
7 4 (1.43%) Sun
8 3 (1.07%) Adobe
8 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.71%) Red Hat