SQL Contract Job Trends in Brighton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brighton requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 13 5
As % of all contract jobs in Brighton 13.51% 20.97% 8.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 38.24% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £345 £356 -
25th Percentile £422 £441 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +18.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £700 £553 £488
90th Percentile £730 £638 £495
East Sussex median daily rate £600 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +26.32% +18.75% -15.79%

All Programming Languages
Brighton

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Brighton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 34 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 37.84% 54.84% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 18
10th Percentile £300 £375 £285
25th Percentile £399 £380 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £549
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
East Sussex median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton.

SQL job vacancy trend in Brighton

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Brighton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Brighton over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Brighton

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Brighton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) AI
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Ariba
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism