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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 2,297 3,653 5,250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.98% 13.90% 13.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.81% 34.33% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,790 2,685 3,989
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £465 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £684
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 38
10th Percentile £25.99 £33.45 £27.68
25th Percentile £40.75 £36.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +39.04% +6.86%
75th Percentile £52.50 £82.63 £59.84
90th Percentile £61.75 £90.00 £77.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.73% +40.81% +33.33%

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 6,415 10,642 16,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.26% 40.49% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,948 12,436
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
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 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 82 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.33 £29.08
25th Percentile £40.75 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 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
Central London -2 321 £575 - 127
West London +9 37 £470 -10.48% 33
East London +3 37 £540 +35.00% 26
South London -2 29 £483 -3.50% 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 75 (3.27%) Apache
2 71 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 69 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.09%) IIS
6 21 (0.91%) Confluence
7 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
8 12 (0.52%) MTS
9 11 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.48%) SAS
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.30%) nginx
12 6 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.26%) Tornado
12 6 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.22%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.17%) CMS
14 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 118 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.087%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.087%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 44 (1.92%) Endur
2 26 (1.13%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
5 13 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.52%) EuroRunner
7 11 (0.48%) Aligne
7 11 (0.48%) SimCorp Dimension
8 9 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
8 9 (0.39%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.26%) ION MarketView
12 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 647 (28.17%) Azure
2 463 (20.16%) AWS
3 254 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 137 (5.96%) Serverless
5 130 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 125 (5.44%) GCP
7 107 (4.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
9 83 (3.61%) GitHub
10 62 (2.70%) Amazon S3
11 54 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 49 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 49 (2.13%) Snowflake
13 48 (2.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 46 (2.00%) PaaS
15 40 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 40 (1.74%) Azure Functions
16 38 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
17 36 (1.57%) PowerApps
18 31 (1.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.26%) Internet
2 20 (0.87%) Firewall
3 12 (0.52%) VPN
4 11 (0.48%) DNS
4 11 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
5 8 (0.35%) SSH
5 8 (0.35%) WAN
5 8 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.30%) DHCP
7 6 (0.26%) HTTP
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
10 3 (0.13%) L2TP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (17.76%) SQL Server
2 245 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
3 241 (10.49%) Power BI
4 208 (9.06%) NoSQL
5 152 (6.62%) Relational Database
6 147 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (4.92%) Big Data
8 104 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 99 (4.31%) Tableau
10 97 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 95 (4.14%) Oracle Database
12 89 (3.87%) Data Lake
13 69 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 63 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 62 (2.70%) MongoDB
16 61 (2.66%) MySQL
17 44 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
18 41 (1.78%) BigQuery
19 37 (1.61%) Metadata
20 36 (1.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 158 (6.88%) Git
2 113 (4.92%) JIRA
3 71 (3.09%) TeamCity
4 69 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 26 (1.13%) GitLab
8 22 (0.96%) Maven
8 22 (0.96%) Selenium
8 22 (0.96%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.91%) NUnit
10 17 (0.74%) Postman
11 16 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.70%) JUnit
12 15 (0.65%) Moq
13 14 (0.61%) Subversion
14 13 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.52%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 777 (33.83%) Finance
2 503 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 368 (16.02%) Banking
4 322 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 269 (11.71%) Front Office
6 132 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 122 (5.31%) Investment Banking
8 89 (3.87%) Back Office
9 55 (2.39%) Marketing
10 52 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.09%) Retail
12 42 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 21 (0.91%) Local Government
16 18 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.78%) Publishing
17 17 (0.74%) Billing
17 17 (0.74%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 754 (32.83%) Developer
2 365 (15.89%) Analyst
3 269 (11.71%) Data Engineer
4 255 (11.10%) Senior
5 162 (7.05%) Business Analyst
6 141 (6.14%) C# Developer
7 126 (5.49%) Architect
8 113 (4.92%) Data Analyst
9 104 (4.53%) .NET Developer
10 90 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 89 (3.87%) Consultant
12 87 (3.79%) SQL Developer
13 85 (3.70%) Lead
14 84 (3.66%) Python Developer
15 83 (3.61%) Software Engineer
16 79 (3.44%) Senior Developer
17 72 (3.13%) Full Stack Developer
18 71 (3.09%) Financial Analyst
19 69 (3.00%) Java Developer
20 64 (2.79%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (15.45%) .NET
2 155 (6.75%) React
3 147 (6.40%) HTML
4 106 (4.61%) XML
5 104 (4.53%) Kafka
6 102 (4.44%) JSON
7 91 (3.96%) REST
8 84 (3.66%) CSS
9 83 (3.61%) PySpark
10 80 (3.48%) .NET Framework
11 77 (3.35%) Web Services
12 75 (3.27%) .NET Core
12 75 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 66 (2.87%) RESTful
14 59 (2.57%) ASP.NET
14 59 (2.57%) Node.js
14 59 (2.57%) Spring
15 56 (2.44%) WPF
16 52 (2.26%) SOAP
17 49 (2.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.36%) Derivative
2 114 (4.96%) Hedge funds
3 98 (4.27%) Fixed Income
4 93 (4.05%) Equities
5 82 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 56 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 55 (2.39%) Algorithms
9 45 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
10 43 (1.87%) Market Risk
10 43 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 40 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
12 39 (1.70%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 37 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
14 31 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
16 27 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
17 23 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 191 (8.32%) Windows
2 160 (6.97%) Linux
3 126 (5.49%) Unix
4 50 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.61%) VMS
6 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.57%) 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 XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (24.77%) Agile
2 372 (16.20%) Data Modelling
2 372 (16.20%) DevOps
3 349 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
4 310 (13.50%) Analytics
5 298 (12.97%) ETL
6 290 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
7 266 (11.58%) CI/CD
8 259 (11.28%) Software Engineering
9 212 (9.23%) Migration
10 202 (8.79%) Data Analysis
11 190 (8.27%) Data Pipeline
12 169 (7.36%) Computer Science
13 157 (6.84%) Visualisation
14 149 (6.49%) Scrum
15 148 (6.44%) Data Engineering
16 146 (6.36%) Test Automation
17 140 (6.09%) Asset Management
18 139 (6.05%) SDLC
19 135 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 810 (35.26%) Python
2 506 (22.03%) C#
3 339 (14.76%) Java
4 250 (10.88%) JavaScript
5 177 (7.71%) PowerShell
6 151 (6.57%) PL/SQL
7 150 (6.53%) T-SQL
8 94 (4.09%) TypeScript
9 64 (2.79%) C++
10 56 (2.44%) VBA
11 51 (2.22%) Scala
12 43 (1.87%) R
13 42 (1.83%) Bash
14 39 (1.70%) Shell Script
15 38 (1.65%) Perl
16 31 (1.35%) Go
16 31 (1.35%) VB.NET
17 29 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (1.26%) VB
18 21 (0.91%) C
Qualifications
1 275 (11.97%) Degree
2 195 (8.49%) Security Cleared
3 155 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 86 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 21 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 19 (0.83%) PhD
9 18 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.48%) CISSP
11 10 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.22%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.17%) ISEB
15 4 (0.17%) PMP
16 3 (0.13%) CISM
16 3 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 3 (0.13%) MCITP
16 3 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 136 (5.92%) QA
3 34 (1.48%) MiFID
4 23 (1.00%) EMIR
4 23 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 23 (1.00%) SLA
5 20 (0.87%) Dodd-Frank
6 19 (0.83%) GDPR
7 18 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.39%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.30%) PMO
11 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.22%) GRC
11 5 (0.22%) IFRS
11 5 (0.22%) ISO 15022
11 5 (0.22%) WCAG
12 4 (0.17%) Basel III
12 4 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 130 (5.66%) Docker
2 90 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.00%) IAG
3 23 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.91%) ACF2
4 21 (0.91%) RACF
5 15 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.13%) HDFS
8 3 (0.13%) vSphere
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.087%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.044%) Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.044%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 140 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 89 (3.87%) Terraform
3 39 (1.70%) Ansible
4 27 (1.18%) Grafana
5 19 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 13 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.44%) SCCM
8 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.35%) SCOM
10 7 (0.30%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.26%) Podman
12 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.17%) Argo
13 4 (0.17%) Control-M
13 4 (0.17%) Kibana
13 4 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 389 (16.94%) Oracle
2 334 (14.54%) Microsoft
3 159 (6.92%) Databricks
4 82 (3.57%) SAP
5 69 (3.00%) Google
6 57 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 39 (1.70%) Salesforce
8 38 (1.65%) Citrix
9 35 (1.52%) Sybase
10 33 (1.44%) Bloomberg
10 33 (1.44%) IBM
11 31 (1.35%) Informatica
11 31 (1.35%) Splunk
12 26 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 24 (1.04%) VMware
14 22 (0.96%) OpenLink
15 21 (0.91%) NEC
16 20 (0.87%) Murex
17 19 (0.83%) CyberArk
18 17 (0.74%) Palantir