SQL Developer Contracts

SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 411 397
Rank change year-on-year -4 -14 -35
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 178 328 567
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.59% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 264 455
10th Percentile £376 £363 £325
25th Percentile £419 £434 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.02% +12.70%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £575
90th Percentile £758 £703 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £435
% change year-on-year -2.06% +11.49% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £42.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK 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
England -25 151 £500 -4.76% 74
Work from Home +71 97 £500 -6.98% 58
London +25 93 £600 - 25
UK excluding London +7 71 £475 -2.06% 55
South East +8 21 £525 +2.44% 6
Midlands +20 19 £488 +2.63% 30
West Midlands +16 15 £500 -1.23% 17
North of England +15 15 £450 -4.26% 10
Wales +23 10 £390 -23.90% 2
North West +7 8 £438 -4.37% 6
Yorkshire +24 7 £450 -5.26% 4
Scotland +37 5 £538 +19.44% 4
East Midlands +23 4 £388 +9.15% 13
East of England +1 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West +5 1 £225 -50.00% 1

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 174 (97.75%) SQL
2 63 (35.39%) SQL Server
3 58 (32.58%) Oracle
4 50 (28.09%) Agile
5 45 (25.28%) PL/SQL
6 36 (20.22%) C#
7 31 (17.42%) Data Modelling
8 30 (16.85%) Azure
9 29 (16.29%) Microsoft
10 28 (15.73%) Finance
11 27 (15.17%) .NET
11 27 (15.17%) DevOps
12 26 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (14.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (13.48%) Unix
14 24 (13.48%) Scrum
15 23 (12.92%) Java
16 22 (12.36%) Oracle Database
17 21 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
18 20 (11.24%) Python
19 19 (10.67%) Banking
19 19 (10.67%) SDLC
19 19 (10.67%) Social Skills
20 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
20 18 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 18 (10.11%) T-SQL
21 16 (8.99%) ETL
21 16 (8.99%) Migration
21 16 (8.99%) Software Engineering
21 16 (8.99%) Unit Testing

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.85%) Azure
2 16 (8.99%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.74%) AWS
5 10 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.37%) Serverless
7 5 (2.81%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.81%) OCI
7 5 (2.81%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.25%) PaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.12%) Apigee
10 2 (1.12%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.12%) GCP
10 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.39%) SQL Server
2 25 (14.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 22 (12.36%) Oracle Database
4 21 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (8.43%) Power BI
7 13 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (2.81%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (2.25%) Tableau
14 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
15 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
15 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (8.43%) Git
2 8 (4.49%) JIRA
3 7 (3.93%) Maven
4 6 (3.37%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.81%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (2.25%) Ant
6 4 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.12%) JUnit
7 2 (1.12%) Mockito
7 2 (1.12%) Postman
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) GoCD
8 1 (0.56%) NUnit
8 1 (0.56%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (15.73%) Finance
2 19 (10.67%) Banking
2 19 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.81%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.25%) Back Office
6 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Marketing
8 2 (1.12%) Local Government
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Front Office
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.17%) .NET
2 10 (5.62%) Hibernate
2 10 (5.62%) JPA
3 7 (3.93%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.93%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.37%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.37%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.69%) React
5 3 (1.69%) REST
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.12%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.12%) jQuery
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.12%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.12%) Spring
6 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.12%) Swagger
6 2 (1.12%) XML
7 1 (0.56%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.93%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.93%) Market Risk
2 7 (3.93%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.81%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.69%) Derivative
6 2 (1.12%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.56%) Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.56%) Replication
7 1 (0.56%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.48%) Unix
2 5 (2.81%) Linux
3 4 (2.25%) VMS
4 3 (1.69%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.09%) Agile
2 31 (17.42%) Data Modelling
3 27 (15.17%) DevOps
4 26 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (13.48%) Scrum
6 19 (10.67%) SDLC
7 16 (8.99%) ETL
7 16 (8.99%) Migration
7 16 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (8.99%) Software Engineering
7 16 (8.99%) Unit Testing
8 15 (8.43%) Software Testing
9 14 (7.87%) Physical Data Model
9 14 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (6.74%) CI/CD
10 12 (6.74%) OO
10 12 (6.74%) TDD
11 10 (5.62%) Database Tuning
11 10 (5.62%) System Testing
12 9 (5.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 174 (97.75%) SQL
2 45 (25.28%) PL/SQL
3 36 (20.22%) C#
4 23 (12.92%) Java
5 20 (11.24%) Python
6 18 (10.11%) T-SQL
7 14 (7.87%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.62%) Perl
9 9 (5.06%) Bash
9 9 (5.06%) Bourne shell
9 9 (5.06%) Korn
10 4 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.69%) COBOL
11 3 (1.69%) DCL
12 2 (1.12%) C
12 2 (1.12%) VB
13 1 (0.56%) PHP
13 1 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) VBA
13 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.12%) Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.25%) MiFID
2 3 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) EMIR
3 1 (0.56%) FATCA
3 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.56%) HL7
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.12%) Terraform
2 1 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 58 (32.58%) Oracle
2 29 (16.29%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.93%) Sparx
4 6 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.25%) RedGate
6 3 (1.69%) SAP
7 2 (1.12%) Murex
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) IBM
8 1 (0.56%) Infor
8 1 (0.56%) Mercator
8 1 (0.56%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) Sybase
8 1 (0.56%) Workday