SQL Contracts in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 2,291 3,779 5,305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.94% 13.96% 13.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.03% 34.19% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 2,773 4,020
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% +10.02%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £685
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 39
10th Percentile £25.99 £34.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £36.28 £36.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.25% +19.75%
75th Percentile £52.50 £80.00 £60.88
90th Percentile £61.75 £90.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London 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
Central London -2 318 £575 - 135
East London 0 35 £540 +35.00% 36
West London +8 33 £450 -14.29% 18
South London -2 28 £491 -6.43% 11
North London +4 5 £560 +6.67% 3
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 73 (3.19%) Apache
2 68 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 26 (1.13%) Confluence
6 24 (1.05%) IIS
7 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
8 12 (0.52%) MTS
9 11 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.26%) nginx
11 6 (0.26%) Tornado
12 5 (0.22%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.17%) CMS
13 4 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 119 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.087%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.087%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 41 (1.79%) Endur
2 20 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
5 14 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.52%) EuroRunner
7 11 (0.48%) Aligne
8 10 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
9 9 (0.39%) Loan IQ
9 9 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 7 (0.31%) ION MarketView
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
11 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
12 6 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 622 (27.15%) Azure
2 444 (19.38%) AWS
3 250 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 137 (5.98%) Serverless
5 131 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
5 131 (5.72%) GCP
6 103 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 89 (3.88%) GitHub
8 82 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 54 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 50 (2.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 48 (2.10%) Snowflake
13 47 (2.05%) PaaS
14 44 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
15 43 (1.88%) Azure Functions
16 38 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
18 35 (1.53%) SaaS
19 34 (1.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.27%) Internet
2 21 (0.92%) Firewall
3 12 (0.52%) DNS
3 12 (0.52%) VPN
4 11 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
5 10 (0.44%) HTTP
6 8 (0.35%) WAN
6 8 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.31%) DHCP
7 7 (0.31%) SSH
8 5 (0.22%) MPLS
8 5 (0.22%) Network Security
8 5 (0.22%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.17%) BGP
9 4 (0.17%) Broadband
9 4 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (0.17%) FTP
9 4 (0.17%) LAN
9 4 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 245 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
3 236 (10.30%) Power BI
4 192 (8.38%) NoSQL
5 152 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (6.37%) Relational Database
7 110 (4.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 104 (4.54%) Big Data
9 102 (4.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 100 (4.36%) Tableau
11 94 (4.10%) Oracle Database
12 86 (3.75%) Data Lake
13 79 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 69 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 64 (2.79%) MySQL
16 62 (2.71%) MongoDB
17 44 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
18 37 (1.62%) BigQuery
19 35 (1.53%) Metadata
20 34 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 159 (6.94%) Git
2 128 (5.59%) JIRA
3 78 (3.40%) TeamCity
4 72 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 37 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 26 (1.13%) Maven
8 25 (1.09%) GitLab
9 24 (1.05%) Postman
10 22 (0.96%) NUnit
10 22 (0.96%) SpecFlow
11 18 (0.79%) Selenium
12 16 (0.70%) Cypress.io
12 16 (0.70%) Moq
13 14 (0.61%) Subversion
14 13 (0.57%) JUnit
14 13 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
14 13 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 13 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 756 (33.00%) Finance
2 491 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 364 (15.89%) Banking
4 314 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
5 259 (11.31%) Front Office
6 124 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 120 (5.24%) Investment Banking
8 84 (3.67%) Back Office
9 55 (2.40%) Marketing
10 53 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 46 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 44 (1.92%) Retail
13 32 (1.40%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.92%) Billing
15 21 (0.92%) Local Government
16 18 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.70%) Law
17 16 (0.70%) Publishing
18 15 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 764 (33.35%) Developer
2 356 (15.54%) Analyst
3 273 (11.92%) Data Engineer
4 244 (10.65%) Senior
5 161 (7.03%) Business Analyst
6 150 (6.55%) C# Developer
7 124 (5.41%) Architect
8 111 (4.85%) .NET Developer
9 107 (4.67%) Data Analyst
10 97 (4.23%) SQL Developer
11 87 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
12 85 (3.71%) Consultant
13 84 (3.67%) Lead
14 82 (3.58%) Senior Developer
15 78 (3.40%) Python Developer
16 70 (3.06%) Software Engineer
17 67 (2.92%) DBA
17 67 (2.92%) Java Developer
18 66 (2.88%) Full Stack Developer
19 62 (2.71%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (15.19%) .NET
2 146 (6.37%) HTML
3 143 (6.24%) React
4 106 (4.63%) Kafka
4 106 (4.63%) XML
5 101 (4.41%) JSON
6 86 (3.75%) REST
7 84 (3.67%) .NET Framework
8 83 (3.62%) CSS
9 77 (3.36%) .NET Core
10 75 (3.27%) PySpark
10 75 (3.27%) Web Services
11 71 (3.10%) AngularJS
12 62 (2.71%) Node.js
13 61 (2.66%) RESTful
14 57 (2.49%) ASP.NET
14 57 (2.49%) WPF
15 55 (2.40%) SOAP
16 53 (2.31%) Pandas
17 51 (2.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.24%) Derivative
2 107 (4.67%) Hedge funds
3 91 (3.97%) Fixed Income
4 87 (3.80%) Equities
5 78 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 61 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 52 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 44 (1.92%) Market Risk
10 43 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 41 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 41 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 38 (1.66%) Cloud Native
13 37 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 37 (1.62%) Onboarding
14 35 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 27 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
17 23 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 180 (7.86%) Windows
2 150 (6.55%) Linux
3 122 (5.33%) Unix
4 50 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 14 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (0.61%) VMS
6 13 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.48%) CentOS
9 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.22%) OpenVMS
11 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.087%) Android
14 2 (0.087%) Solaris
15 1 (0.044%) AIX
15 1 (0.044%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (24.88%) Agile
2 380 (16.59%) DevOps
3 373 (16.28%) Data Modelling
4 343 (14.97%) Business Intelligence
5 297 (12.96%) Analytics
5 297 (12.96%) ETL
6 281 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
7 258 (11.26%) CI/CD
8 246 (10.74%) Software Engineering
9 203 (8.86%) Data Analysis
10 200 (8.73%) Migration
11 182 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
12 163 (7.11%) Visualisation
13 159 (6.94%) Computer Science
14 149 (6.50%) Scrum
15 148 (6.46%) Data Engineering
16 141 (6.15%) Test Automation
17 139 (6.07%) SDLC
18 132 (5.76%) Microservices
19 127 (5.54%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 788 (34.40%) Python
2 503 (21.96%) C#
3 327 (14.27%) Java
4 248 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 171 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 155 (6.77%) PL/SQL
7 150 (6.55%) T-SQL
8 88 (3.84%) TypeScript
9 61 (2.66%) C++
10 58 (2.53%) VBA
11 51 (2.23%) Scala
12 44 (1.92%) R
13 38 (1.66%) Bash
13 38 (1.66%) Perl
14 36 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.57%) VB.NET
15 32 (1.40%) VB
16 28 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 27 (1.18%) Go
18 18 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 267 (11.65%) Degree
2 194 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 157 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 78 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 30 (1.31%) DV Cleared
7 21 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 17 (0.74%) PhD
9 16 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.44%) CISSP
11 8 (0.35%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.17%) ISEB
14 4 (0.17%) PMP
15 3 (0.13%) CIMA
15 3 (0.13%) CISM
15 3 (0.13%) MCITP
15 3 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.77%) Data Quality
2 131 (5.72%) QA
3 34 (1.48%) MiFID
4 24 (1.05%) EMIR
4 24 (1.05%) SLA
5 20 (0.87%) Dodd-Frank
6 19 (0.83%) GDPR
7 18 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.31%) PMO
11 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.22%) GRC
11 5 (0.22%) IFRS
11 5 (0.22%) WCAG
12 4 (0.17%) Basel III
12 4 (0.17%) ISO 15022
13 3 (0.13%) COREP
13 3 (0.13%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (5.33%) Docker
2 84 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.13%) IAG
4 24 (1.05%) ACF2
4 24 (1.05%) RACF
5 22 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.13%) HDFS
10 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) vSphere
10 2 (0.087%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.044%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.044%) Firmware
11 1 (0.044%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.044%) KVM
11 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 127 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 88 (3.84%) Terraform
3 38 (1.66%) Ansible
4 30 (1.31%) Grafana
5 22 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
6 14 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.44%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.39%) SCCM
10 8 (0.35%) Data Guard
10 8 (0.35%) SCOM
11 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.17%) Argo
12 4 (0.17%) Kibana
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.13%) Podman
13 3 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 392 (17.11%) Oracle
2 334 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 145 (6.33%) Databricks
4 77 (3.36%) SAP
5 71 (3.10%) Google
6 58 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.75%) Citrix
7 40 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 37 (1.62%) Sybase
9 36 (1.57%) IBM
10 32 (1.40%) Bloomberg
11 31 (1.35%) Informatica
12 28 (1.22%) Splunk
13 27 (1.18%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.09%) VMware
15 23 (1.00%) Murex
16 22 (0.96%) NEC
17 19 (0.83%) OpenLink
18 18 (0.79%) Sparx
19 17 (0.74%) Palantir