SQL Contracts in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,629 6,148 8,862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.82% 12.16% 12.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.54% 34.40% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,668 4,505 6,426
10th Percentile £350 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 84 140
10th Percentile £22.71 £20.77 £16.21
25th Percentile £26.05 £26.42 £20.56
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%
75th Percentile £54.03 £70.06 £53.00
90th Percentile £62.11 £82.85 £63.62
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +31.48%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +2 2,291 £575 - 1,108
North of England -4 382 £475 -2.56% 396
South East -11 350 £475 -7.09% 278
North West -6 230 £475 - 237
Midlands -7 220 £425 -10.53% 299
South West -16 164 £538 +7.50% 172
West Midlands -9 148 £425 -19.05% 172
Yorkshire -8 117 £450 -10.00% 117
East of England -22 85 £450 +5.88% 163
East Midlands -2 70 £405 +1.25% 127
North East +23 35 £475 -5.00% 47
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 113 (3.11%) Apache
2 100 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 65 (1.79%) Confluence
6 57 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 51 (1.41%) SAS
8 39 (1.07%) IIS
9 14 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
10 13 (0.36%) CMS
10 13 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 12 (0.33%) MTS
12 11 (0.30%) nginx
12 11 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.17%) Tornado
Applications
1 176 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.11%) Chatbot
3 49 (1.35%) MS Visio
4 41 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.28%) SPSS
8 8 (0.22%) CATIA
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.055%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.055%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 41 (1.13%) Endur
2 21 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 15 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
7 12 (0.33%) EuroRunner
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.30%) Aligne
8 11 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
9 10 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
10 9 (0.25%) Loan IQ
10 9 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
11 8 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 946 (26.07%) Azure
2 636 (17.53%) AWS
3 510 (14.05%) Power Platform
4 215 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (5.68%) Serverless
6 185 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 181 (4.99%) GCP
8 123 (3.39%) GitHub
9 121 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 101 (2.78%) Amazon S3
12 93 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 70 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 67 (1.85%) Azure Functions
14 67 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
14 67 (1.85%) PaaS
15 65 (1.79%) Power Automate
16 64 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
17 62 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 62 (1.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.54%) Firewall
2 44 (1.21%) DNS
3 34 (0.94%) DHCP
4 31 (0.85%) Internet
4 31 (0.85%) VPN
5 20 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 19 (0.52%) SAN
7 18 (0.50%) BGP
8 17 (0.47%) Network Security
8 17 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.44%) HTTP
9 16 (0.44%) MPLS
9 16 (0.44%) WAN
10 12 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.33%) FTP
10 12 (0.33%) LAN
10 12 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
12 10 (0.28%) AMQP
13 9 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 658 (18.13%) SQL Server
2 479 (13.20%) Power BI
3 386 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
4 273 (7.52%) NoSQL
5 236 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
6 224 (6.17%) Relational Database
7 191 (5.26%) Tableau
8 186 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 166 (4.57%) Data Lake
10 154 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 154 (4.24%) Big Data
10 154 (4.24%) Oracle Database
11 134 (3.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 109 (3.00%) MySQL
13 88 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 88 (2.42%) MongoDB
14 69 (1.90%) BigQuery
15 65 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
16 63 (1.74%) Metadata
16 63 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 237 (6.53%) Git
2 222 (6.12%) JIRA
3 104 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 82 (2.26%) TeamCity
5 57 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 47 (1.30%) GitLab
7 39 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 34 (0.94%) Postman
9 33 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 30 (0.83%) Maven
11 26 (0.72%) NUnit
11 26 (0.72%) Selenium
12 23 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.63%) SpecFlow
13 21 (0.58%) JUnit
14 19 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
15 18 (0.50%) Bitbucket
16 17 (0.47%) Mockito
16 17 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
16 17 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 908 (25.02%) Finance
2 752 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 489 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 395 (10.88%) Banking
5 261 (7.19%) Front Office
6 207 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 122 (3.36%) Investment Banking
8 102 (2.81%) Marketing
8 102 (2.81%) Retail
9 93 (2.56%) Back Office
10 73 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 61 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 61 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 36 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 33 (0.91%) Local Government
14 33 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
15 31 (0.85%) Billing
16 28 (0.77%) Electronics
16 28 (0.77%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,224 (33.73%) Developer
2 546 (15.05%) Analyst
3 417 (11.49%) Data Engineer
4 346 (9.53%) Senior
5 215 (5.92%) Data Analyst
6 202 (5.57%) Architect
7 183 (5.04%) Business Analyst
8 170 (4.68%) C# Developer
9 169 (4.66%) Software Developer
10 157 (4.33%) SQL Developer
11 142 (3.91%) .NET Developer
12 140 (3.86%) Lead
13 134 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 121 (3.33%) Consultant
15 111 (3.06%) DBA
16 108 (2.98%) Senior Developer
17 98 (2.70%) Python Developer
18 91 (2.51%) Full Stack Developer
19 89 (2.45%) Software Engineer
20 86 (2.37%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 454 (12.51%) .NET
2 289 (7.96%) HTML
3 174 (4.79%) React
4 159 (4.38%) XML
5 156 (4.30%) REST
6 139 (3.83%) JSON
7 129 (3.55%) Kafka
8 118 (3.25%) CSS
9 111 (3.06%) RESTful
10 105 (2.89%) AngularJS
11 102 (2.81%) .NET Core
12 101 (2.78%) .NET Framework
13 99 (2.73%) Web Services
14 98 (2.70%) PySpark
15 95 (2.62%) SOAP
16 84 (2.31%) Node.js
17 77 (2.12%) Spring
18 71 (1.96%) ASP.NET
19 62 (1.71%) Pandas
20 58 (1.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 145 (4.00%) Derivative
2 117 (3.22%) Product Ownership
3 108 (2.98%) Hedge funds
4 91 (2.51%) Fixed Income
5 88 (2.42%) Equities
6 87 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 64 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 59 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 55 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 55 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 55 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 50 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 47 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
14 44 (1.21%) Market Risk
15 43 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
16 40 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
17 36 (0.99%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 313 (8.62%) Windows
2 229 (6.31%) Linux
3 187 (5.15%) Unix
4 126 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.80%) VMS
7 29 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.41%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 12 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) CentOS
12 11 (0.30%) Solaris
13 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) AIX
15 6 (0.17%) Android
16 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (23.06%) Agile
2 633 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
3 570 (15.71%) Data Modelling
4 543 (14.96%) DevOps
5 486 (13.39%) ETL
6 483 (13.31%) Analytics
7 453 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
8 413 (11.38%) Software Engineering
9 381 (10.50%) Migration
10 362 (9.98%) CI/CD
11 302 (8.32%) Data Analysis
12 269 (7.41%) Visualisation
13 253 (6.97%) Data Pipeline
14 246 (6.78%) Scrum
15 220 (6.06%) Data Engineering
16 217 (5.98%) Computer Science
17 212 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence
18 206 (5.68%) Test Automation
19 185 (5.10%) Microservices
20 184 (5.07%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,162 (32.02%) Python
2 720 (19.84%) C#
3 434 (11.96%) Java
4 432 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 270 (7.44%) PL/SQL
6 240 (6.61%) PowerShell
7 206 (5.68%) T-SQL
8 122 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 79 (2.18%) C++
10 74 (2.04%) Scala
11 70 (1.93%) R
12 67 (1.85%) Bash
12 67 (1.85%) VBA
13 63 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 53 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 49 (1.35%) Go
16 44 (1.21%) VB.NET
17 43 (1.18%) C
17 43 (1.18%) VB
18 39 (1.07%) Perl
Qualifications
1 468 (12.90%) Degree
2 385 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 300 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 103 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 49 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.63%) MCSE
11 18 (0.50%) PhD
12 17 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (0.44%) MCSA
14 13 (0.36%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.36%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.30%) CISSP
16 8 (0.22%) ISEB
16 8 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.17%) PMP
17 6 (0.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 202 (5.57%) QA
3 38 (1.05%) SLA
4 34 (0.94%) MiFID
5 33 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 31 (0.85%) GDPR
7 24 (0.66%) EMIR
8 20 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
9 17 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.41%) HL7
11 11 (0.30%) IFRS
12 10 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.25%) PMO
14 7 (0.19%) WCAG
15 6 (0.17%) Basel III
15 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.17%) GxP
15 6 (0.17%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 5 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 201 (5.54%) Docker
2 182 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.83%) IAG
6 27 (0.74%) ACF2
6 27 (0.74%) RACF
7 14 (0.39%) vSphere
8 11 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.19%) HDFS
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.055%) XenApp
14 2 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 190 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 152 (4.19%) Terraform
3 74 (2.04%) Ansible
4 49 (1.35%) Grafana
5 26 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
7 22 (0.61%) SCCM
8 14 (0.39%) SCOM
9 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.28%) BladeLogic
10 10 (0.28%) Data Guard
11 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.22%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.19%) WSUS
14 6 (0.17%) HP Fortify
14 6 (0.17%) Kibana
14 6 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 583 (16.07%) Oracle
2 569 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 201 (5.54%) Databricks
4 127 (3.50%) SAP
5 110 (3.03%) PayPal
6 105 (2.89%) Google
7 81 (2.23%) VMware
8 76 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 70 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 63 (1.74%) Informatica
11 51 (1.41%) Splunk
12 44 (1.21%) IBM
13 43 (1.18%) Citrix
14 41 (1.13%) Sybase
15 32 (0.88%) Bloomberg
16 31 (0.85%) Cisco
17 28 (0.77%) Dynatrace
18 25 (0.69%) NEC
19 24 (0.66%) Adobe
20 23 (0.63%) Murex