SQL Contracts in Central London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 289 319 599
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 14.47% 13.04% 15.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.39% 38.30% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 220 383
10th Percentile £382 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £485 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £686 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £776 £768
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -7.62% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +12.30%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Central London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Central London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +1 262 £573 -3.58% 127
City of Westminster -2 7 £550 -26.67% 4
West End of London -12 4 £498 -1.49% 14
Southwark - 2 £375 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 1
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 21 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.50%) Apache
3 10 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.46%) Confluence
4 9 (3.11%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.73%) SAS
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.04%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.69%) Luigi
8 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.35%) CMS
8 1 (0.35%) IIS
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.35%) Mule
8 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.42%) Endur
3 6 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.69%) Actimize
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.35%) BASE24
7 1 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.35%) Kondor
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 71 (24.57%) Azure
2 63 (21.80%) Power Platform
3 57 (19.72%) AWS
4 18 (6.23%) GCP
5 16 (5.54%) Snowflake
6 15 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.50%) dbt
9 12 (4.15%) Serverless
10 11 (3.81%) SaaS
11 9 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (3.11%) GitHub
12 8 (2.77%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.42%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (1.38%) Power Automate
17 3 (1.04%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.38%) Firewall
1 4 (1.38%) SSH
2 1 (0.35%) ATM
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.35%) Multicast
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) SAN
2 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.72%) Power BI
2 39 (13.49%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (11.42%) NoSQL
5 32 (11.07%) SQL Server
6 29 (10.03%) Tableau
7 23 (7.96%) MongoDB
8 18 (6.23%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (4.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (3.81%) Apache Hive
10 11 (3.81%) Hadoop
10 11 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (3.46%) Big Data
11 10 (3.46%) BigQuery
11 10 (3.46%) Data Lake
11 10 (3.46%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.46%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (3.11%) Metadata
13 8 (2.77%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (9.69%) JIRA
2 22 (7.61%) Git
3 13 (4.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.42%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.73%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.73%) Maven
6 4 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.38%) JUnit
6 4 (1.38%) RStudio
6 4 (1.38%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.04%) Ant
7 3 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.04%) Postman
7 3 (1.04%) Subversion
8 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.69%) Mockito
8 2 (0.69%) NUnit
8 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.69%) Xcode
General
1 98 (33.91%) Finance
2 84 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 55 (19.03%) Banking
4 50 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 24 (8.30%) Investment Banking
7 16 (5.54%) Back Office
8 10 (3.46%) Retail
9 9 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.11%) Front Office
9 9 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.42%) Marketing
11 6 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.73%) Police
12 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.73%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.38%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.04%) Billing
Job Titles
1 85 (29.41%) Developer
2 64 (22.15%) Analyst
3 39 (13.49%) Data Engineer
4 32 (11.07%) Senior
5 27 (9.34%) Business Analyst
5 27 (9.34%) Data Analyst
6 20 (6.92%) Java Developer
7 18 (6.23%) Lead
8 16 (5.54%) Architect
8 16 (5.54%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 13 (4.50%) Consultant
10 11 (3.81%) Data Business Analyst
10 11 (3.81%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.11%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.42%) SQL Analyst
12 7 (2.42%) Support Analyst
13 6 (2.08%) Power BI Developer
13 6 (2.08%) Snowflake Developer
13 6 (2.08%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.84%) Kafka
2 25 (8.65%) .NET
2 25 (8.65%) Spring
3 23 (7.96%) React
4 22 (7.61%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.27%) HTML
5 21 (7.27%) PySpark
6 17 (5.88%) CSS
7 12 (4.15%) REST
7 12 (4.15%) Web Services
8 11 (3.81%) TensorFlow
9 10 (3.46%) JSON
10 9 (3.11%) XML
11 7 (2.42%) Node.js
11 7 (2.42%) pydantic
11 7 (2.42%) RESTful
12 6 (2.08%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.08%) HTML5
12 6 (2.08%) Pandas
12 6 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.23%) Data Structures
2 16 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.81%) Reference Data
4 9 (3.11%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.77%) Credit Risk
5 8 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.08%) Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Equities
6 6 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.73%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.73%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.73%) Replication
8 4 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.04%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.57%) Linux
2 16 (5.54%) Unix
2 16 (5.54%) Windows
3 11 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) SUSE
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.61%) Agile
2 69 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (17.65%) Analytics
5 50 (17.30%) DevOps
6 48 (16.61%) Data Modelling
7 46 (15.92%) Data Analysis
8 41 (14.19%) Visualisation
9 39 (13.49%) ETL
10 35 (12.11%) Microservices
11 32 (11.07%) CI/CD
12 29 (10.03%) Decision-Making
13 28 (9.69%) Migration
14 26 (9.00%) Data Science
15 25 (8.65%) Data Engineering
15 25 (8.65%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (8.65%) Data Visualisation
16 24 (8.30%) Data Management
17 22 (7.61%) Risk Management
17 22 (7.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 109 (37.72%) Python
2 44 (15.22%) Java
3 39 (13.49%) JavaScript
4 26 (9.00%) C#
5 16 (5.54%) PL/SQL
6 13 (4.50%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.11%) T-SQL
8 8 (2.77%) R
8 8 (2.77%) Scala
9 7 (2.42%) Bash
9 7 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.08%) VBA
11 5 (1.73%) Ruby
12 4 (1.38%) C
12 4 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Groovy
14 2 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.69%) RPG IV
14 2 (0.69%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 47 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.30%) Degree
4 16 (5.54%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.73%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.73%) PhD
7 4 (1.38%) CBAP
8 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.04%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CFA
10 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) HNC
10 1 (0.35%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.54%) QA
3 13 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.15%) GDPR
5 6 (2.08%) MiFID
6 5 (1.73%) EMIR
7 4 (1.38%) Basel II
8 2 (0.69%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) IFRS
9 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) PMO
9 1 (0.35%) PSD2
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) UCITS
System Software
1 12 (4.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 37 (12.80%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.88%) Terraform
3 7 (2.42%) Ansible
4 3 (1.04%) Control-M
5 2 (0.69%) Grafana
5 2 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) QRadar
6 1 (0.35%) Rancher
6 1 (0.35%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (16.26%) Oracle
2 38 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.54%) Databricks
4 10 (3.46%) Google
5 9 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.77%) IBM
6 8 (2.77%) SAP
7 7 (2.42%) OpenLink
7 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.08%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.73%) Informatica
9 5 (1.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.38%) TOWER Software
11 3 (1.04%) Ab Initio
11 3 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.04%) Murex
11 3 (1.04%) Splunk
11 3 (1.04%) VMware
12 2 (0.69%) Workday