SQL Contracts in Central London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 318 600 647
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 12.98% 15.54% 14.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.31% 36.36% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 382 498
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £477 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £779 £768 £750
London median daily rate £575 £575 £576
% change year-on-year - -0.09% +9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £41.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £48.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -6.25% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £53.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - - £74.63
London median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +8.25% +12.79%

All Programming Languages
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 830 1,650 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.89% 42.75% 43.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 1,094 1,561
10th Percentile £413 £420 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +3.10% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
London median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +9.39%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
City of London -2 277 £581 +1.09% 117
West End of London +12 16 £505 -15.83% 5
City of Westminster +5 13 £750 +20.00% 4
Camden - 12 £496 -
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 9 (2.83%) Apache
2 7 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.20%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.94%) MTS
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.31%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) Tornado
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.46%) NEC Housing
2 10 (3.14%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (1.89%) Endur
4 3 (0.94%) Aligne
4 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.94%) EuroRunner
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.63%) MIS ActiveH
5 2 (0.63%) Primavera
5 2 (0.63%) Unica
6 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.31%) Front Arena
6 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 85 (26.73%) Azure
2 63 (19.81%) AWS
3 53 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 26 (8.18%) Serverless
5 21 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.03%) GitHub
7 15 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (2.83%) Azure Functions
10 9 (2.83%) GCP
11 8 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (2.52%) SaaS
12 7 (2.20%) Amazon MSK
12 7 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.20%) Azure Storage
12 7 (2.20%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.20%) Firewall
2 4 (1.26%) DNS
2 4 (1.26%) WAN
3 3 (0.94%) HTTP
3 3 (0.94%) Internet
4 2 (0.63%) LAN
4 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.31%) DHCP
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) SAN
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.38%) SQL Server
2 49 (15.41%) Power BI
3 40 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (8.49%) NoSQL
4 27 (8.49%) Relational Database
5 20 (6.29%) Tableau
6 17 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (4.72%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (4.09%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (3.77%) Oracle Database
10 11 (3.46%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.46%) Parquet
11 10 (3.14%) Big Data
12 8 (2.52%) Data Mart
12 8 (2.52%) MySQL
13 7 (2.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (5.66%) Git
2 10 (3.14%) JIRA
3 9 (2.83%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.20%) GitLab
4 7 (2.20%) SpecFlow
5 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.26%) Selenium
5 4 (1.26%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.94%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.94%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.63%) Deequ
7 2 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.63%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.63%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.31%) Ant
8 1 (0.31%) ERwin
General
1 99 (31.13%) Finance
2 77 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.69%) Banking
5 19 (5.97%) Investment Banking
6 16 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.72%) Front Office
8 11 (3.46%) Retail
9 9 (2.83%) Billing
9 9 (2.83%) Retail Banking
10 8 (2.52%) Back Office
11 7 (2.20%) Marketing
12 5 (1.57%) Law
13 4 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Agriculture
14 3 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.94%) Local Government
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (30.19%) Developer
2 71 (22.33%) Analyst
3 42 (13.21%) Data Engineer
4 31 (9.75%) Senior
5 30 (9.43%) Business Analyst
6 21 (6.60%) Data Analyst
7 18 (5.66%) Full Stack Developer
8 17 (5.35%) Consultant
8 17 (5.35%) Python Developer
9 13 (4.09%) C# Developer
10 12 (3.77%) Lead
11 11 (3.46%) Architect
11 11 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.46%) SQL Developer
12 10 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.83%) Great Plains Consultant
13 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Consultant
14 8 (2.52%) Data Business Analyst
14 8 (2.52%) Test Analyst
15 7 (2.20%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.01%) .NET
2 24 (7.55%) Kafka
3 19 (5.97%) React
4 16 (5.03%) JSON
5 14 (4.40%) HTML
5 14 (4.40%) PySpark
6 11 (3.46%) .NET Core
6 11 (3.46%) Apache Avro
6 11 (3.46%) Web Services
7 10 (3.14%) XML
8 8 (2.52%) CSS
8 8 (2.52%) RESTful
9 7 (2.20%) .NET Framework
9 7 (2.20%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.20%) pytest
10 6 (1.89%) Blazor
10 6 (1.89%) Node.js
10 6 (1.89%) REST
10 6 (1.89%) WCF
11 5 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.03%) Market Risk
2 13 (4.09%) Hedge funds
3 12 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.57%) Equities
6 5 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.57%) Replication
7 4 (1.26%) Derivative
7 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.75%) Windows
2 17 (5.35%) Linux
3 12 (3.77%) Unix
4 11 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.94%) VMS
5 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.63%) CentOS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.31%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (24.21%) Agile
2 59 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (17.30%) Data Modelling
4 50 (15.72%) DevOps
5 45 (14.15%) ETL
6 44 (13.84%) Analytics
6 44 (13.84%) CI/CD
7 40 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (11.95%) SDLC
9 36 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 34 (10.69%) Migration
11 30 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (8.81%) Test Automation
13 27 (8.49%) Data Analysis
13 27 (8.49%) Microservices
13 27 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
14 26 (8.18%) Visualisation
15 24 (7.55%) Full Stack Development
16 23 (7.23%) Data Engineering
17 22 (6.92%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 112 (35.22%) Python
2 45 (14.15%) C#
3 32 (10.06%) Java
4 29 (9.12%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.18%) T-SQL
6 17 (5.35%) PL/SQL
7 11 (3.46%) R
8 10 (3.14%) C++
9 9 (2.83%) Perl
9 9 (2.83%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (2.52%) Go
11 6 (1.89%) Scala
11 6 (1.89%) XPath
11 6 (1.89%) XQuery
12 5 (1.57%) Bash
13 4 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.94%) PHP
14 3 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (11.64%) Degree
2 26 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.26%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.94%) ISEB
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.31%) PMP
8 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.49%) QA
2 19 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.57%) SLA
5 4 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.26%) PMO
6 3 (0.94%) EMIR
6 3 (0.94%) MiFID
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (5.35%) Docker
2 13 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.31%) ACF2
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
5 1 (0.31%) IAG
5 1 (0.31%) RACF
Systems Management
1 28 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.31%) SCCM
3 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.31%) vRealize
3 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (0.31%) WSUS
3 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (17.92%) Oracle
2 55 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.23%) Databricks
4 16 (5.03%) SAP
5 11 (3.46%) NEC
6 8 (2.52%) Sybase
7 6 (1.89%) IBM
7 6 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.89%) Northgate
7 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.57%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.57%) Citrix
8 5 (1.57%) Google
8 5 (1.57%) Veritas
8 5 (1.57%) VMware
9 4 (1.26%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.26%) Siebel
9 4 (1.26%) Sun
10 3 (0.94%) Adobe
10 3 (0.94%) Informatica