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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,623 6,047 8,857
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.83% 12.09% 12.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.34% 34.36% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,682 4,427 6,414
10th Percentile £358 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.26%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £536 £525
% change year-on-year +0.28% +2.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 83 138
10th Percentile £23.63 £19.11 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.63 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.57 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +40.62% +35.58%
75th Percentile £56.66 £70.13 £53.50
90th Percentile £62.11 £82.90 £64.13
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 10,867 17,600 26,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.47% 35.19% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 12,846 19,318
10th Percentile £350 £386 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
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 442 426 454
10th Percentile £35.65 £26.10 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.11 £49.76 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 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
London +2 2,293 £575 - 1,124
North of England -3 381 £475 -1.94% 379
South East -10 351 £475 -6.40% 307
North West -4 233 £475 - 211
Midlands -6 225 £425 -10.53% 360
South West -15 161 £538 +7.50% 198
West Midlands -7 146 £425 -19.05% 205
Yorkshire -8 113 £450 -10.00% 127
East of England -20 85 £450 +5.88% 171
East Midlands +1 77 £400 - 155
North East +22 35 £475 -5.00% 44
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
1 118 (3.26%) Apache
2 102 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 70 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 61 (1.68%) Confluence
5 56 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (1.49%) SAS
7 39 (1.08%) IIS
8 14 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
8 14 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 13 (0.36%) CMS
10 12 (0.33%) MTS
11 11 (0.30%) nginx
11 11 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.17%) Tornado
14 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 174 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.09%) Chatbot
3 51 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 36 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.75%) 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 42 (1.16%) Endur
2 22 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
6 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
10 12 (0.33%) EuroRunner
11 11 (0.30%) Aligne
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
13 9 (0.25%) Loan IQ
13 9 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
14 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 964 (26.61%) Azure
2 642 (17.72%) AWS
3 514 (14.19%) Power Platform
4 215 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (5.58%) Serverless
6 196 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 175 (4.83%) GCP
8 122 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 117 (3.23%) GitHub
10 105 (2.90%) Snowflake
11 100 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 96 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 72 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
14 66 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
14 66 (1.82%) PaaS
15 64 (1.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 64 (1.77%) PowerApps
16 63 (1.74%) Power Automate
17 62 (1.71%) Azure Functions
17 62 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.52%) Firewall
2 40 (1.10%) DNS
3 32 (0.88%) DHCP
4 31 (0.86%) VPN
5 30 (0.83%) Internet
6 19 (0.52%) SAN
6 19 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 18 (0.50%) BGP
8 17 (0.47%) Network Security
8 17 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
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%) HTTP
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
1 643 (17.75%) SQL Server
2 484 (13.36%) Power BI
3 388 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 285 (7.87%) NoSQL
5 229 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
6 227 (6.27%) Relational Database
7 189 (5.22%) Tableau
8 182 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 171 (4.72%) Data Lake
10 165 (4.55%) Big Data
11 155 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 155 (4.28%) Oracle Database
12 127 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 108 (2.98%) MySQL
14 88 (2.43%) MongoDB
15 83 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
16 69 (1.90%) BigQuery
17 66 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 63 (1.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 241 (6.65%) Git
2 210 (5.80%) JIRA
3 102 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 77 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 59 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 48 (1.32%) GitLab
7 40 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 34 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.83%) Postman
10 28 (0.77%) Selenium
11 27 (0.75%) Maven
11 27 (0.75%) NUnit
12 24 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 23 (0.63%) JUnit
13 23 (0.63%) SpecFlow
14 18 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 18 (0.50%) TestRail
15 17 (0.47%) Artifactory
15 17 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 17 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 920 (25.39%) Finance
2 764 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 496 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 398 (10.99%) Banking
5 267 (7.37%) Front Office
6 210 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 126 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 105 (2.90%) Retail
9 102 (2.82%) Marketing
10 97 (2.68%) Back Office
11 72 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 64 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 61 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 33 (0.91%) Local Government
16 33 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 28 (0.77%) Legal
18 27 (0.75%) Billing
19 26 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,207 (33.31%) Developer
2 548 (15.13%) Analyst
3 420 (11.59%) Data Engineer
4 353 (9.74%) Senior
5 219 (6.04%) Data Analyst
6 203 (5.60%) Architect
7 186 (5.13%) Business Analyst
8 170 (4.69%) Software Developer
9 164 (4.53%) C# Developer
10 148 (4.09%) SQL Developer
11 141 (3.89%) Lead
12 137 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
13 136 (3.75%) .NET Developer
14 123 (3.39%) Consultant
15 112 (3.09%) DBA
16 106 (2.93%) Senior Developer
17 99 (2.73%) Python Developer
18 97 (2.68%) Software Engineer
19 93 (2.57%) Full Stack Developer
20 88 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (12.61%) .NET
2 285 (7.87%) HTML
3 180 (4.97%) React
4 155 (4.28%) REST
5 152 (4.20%) XML
6 139 (3.84%) JSON
7 128 (3.53%) Kafka
8 120 (3.31%) CSS
9 114 (3.15%) RESTful
10 109 (3.01%) AngularJS
11 106 (2.93%) PySpark
12 101 (2.79%) .NET Core
13 97 (2.68%) Web Services
14 96 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 88 (2.43%) SOAP
16 80 (2.21%) Spring
17 79 (2.18%) Node.js
18 73 (2.01%) ASP.NET
19 60 (1.66%) Pandas
20 56 (1.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 148 (4.09%) Derivative
2 119 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 112 (3.09%) Hedge funds
4 94 (2.59%) Fixed Income
5 91 (2.51%) Equities
6 86 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 62 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 61 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 60 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 57 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 55 (1.52%) Cloud Native
13 52 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
14 51 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
15 49 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
16 48 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
17 45 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
18 43 (1.19%) Market Risk
19 40 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
20 37 (1.02%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 319 (8.80%) Windows
2 232 (6.40%) Linux
3 185 (5.11%) Unix
4 127 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 30 (0.83%) VMS
6 30 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 30 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (0.39%) Windows 7
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%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (22.99%) Agile
2 647 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
3 566 (15.62%) Data Modelling
4 542 (14.96%) DevOps
5 490 (13.52%) Analytics
6 484 (13.36%) ETL
7 453 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 422 (11.65%) Software Engineering
9 384 (10.60%) Migration
10 377 (10.41%) CI/CD
11 293 (8.09%) Data Analysis
12 268 (7.40%) Visualisation
13 260 (7.18%) Data Pipeline
14 248 (6.85%) Scrum
15 225 (6.21%) Computer Science
16 223 (6.16%) Artificial Intelligence
17 222 (6.13%) Data Engineering
18 212 (5.85%) Test Automation
19 188 (5.19%) Microservices
20 186 (5.13%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,182 (32.62%) Python
2 719 (19.85%) C#
3 441 (12.17%) Java
4 431 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 263 (7.26%) PL/SQL
6 238 (6.57%) PowerShell
7 207 (5.71%) T-SQL
8 124 (3.42%) TypeScript
9 81 (2.24%) C++
10 75 (2.07%) Scala
11 74 (2.04%) Bash
11 74 (2.04%) R
12 65 (1.79%) VBA
13 64 (1.77%) Shell Script
14 53 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 50 (1.38%) Go
16 45 (1.24%) C
17 41 (1.13%) VB
17 41 (1.13%) VB.NET
18 38 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 474 (13.08%) Degree
2 382 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 292 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 107 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 76 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 52 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 42 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.63%) MCSE
11 20 (0.55%) 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 12 (0.33%) 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
1 242 (6.68%) Data Quality
2 204 (5.63%) QA
3 37 (1.02%) SLA
4 34 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 34 (0.94%) MiFID
5 32 (0.88%) GDPR
6 24 (0.66%) EMIR
7 22 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.39%) HL7
10 12 (0.33%) IFRS
11 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.25%) PMO
13 7 (0.19%) GxP
13 7 (0.19%) WCAG
14 6 (0.17%) Basel III
14 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.17%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.17%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 211 (5.82%) Docker
2 185 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.72%) IAG
6 24 (0.66%) ACF2
6 24 (0.66%) RACF
7 16 (0.44%) vSphere
8 10 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.19%) HDFS
11 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.055%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 195 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.22%) Terraform
3 73 (2.01%) Ansible
4 49 (1.35%) Grafana
5 26 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 23 (0.63%) SCCM
8 20 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
9 14 (0.39%) SCOM
10 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
11 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.25%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.25%) Data Guard
13 8 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.19%) Kibana
14 7 (0.19%) PingFederate
14 7 (0.19%) Podman
14 7 (0.19%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 568 (15.68%) Oracle
2 558 (15.40%) Microsoft
3 213 (5.88%) Databricks
4 130 (3.59%) SAP
5 110 (3.04%) PayPal
6 104 (2.87%) Google
7 81 (2.24%) VMware
8 76 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 68 (1.88%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.77%) Informatica
11 52 (1.44%) Splunk
12 41 (1.13%) Citrix
12 41 (1.13%) IBM
13 37 (1.02%) Sybase
14 32 (0.88%) Bloomberg
15 31 (0.86%) Cisco
16 28 (0.77%) Dynatrace
17 24 (0.66%) NEC
18 23 (0.63%) Adobe
19 22 (0.61%) Red Hat