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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 320 582 624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 13.32% 15.29% 13.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.42% 36.60% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 371 478
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £486 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £675
90th Percentile £786 £769 £746
London median daily rate £575 £575 £576
% change year-on-year - -0.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £38.05
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £43.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +110.01%
75th Percentile £50.25 £53.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - - £74.05
London median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.38% +44.44% +6.76%

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 833 1,590 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.68% 41.77% 43.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 1,055 1,544
10th Percentile £403 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
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 7 12
10th Percentile - £35.00 £39.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £45.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +0.88% +123.75%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £73.06
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.45
London median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +11.11%

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 13 May 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 13 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
City of London -2 281 £581 -2.31% 130
West End of London +14 14 £505 -12.17% 5
City of Westminster +5 13 £750 +25.00% 4
Camden - 12 £496 - 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 8 (2.50%) Apache
2 7 (2.19%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.94%) MTS
7 2 (0.63%) CMS
7 2 (0.63%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) Tornado
8 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.44%) NEC Housing
2 10 (3.13%) Dynamics GP
3 6 (1.88%) Endur
4 3 (0.94%) Aligne
4 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.94%) EuroRunner
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 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
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 88 (27.50%) Azure
2 65 (20.31%) AWS
3 50 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.81%) Serverless
5 21 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.38%) GitHub
8 12 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.50%) Azure Functions
10 8 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.19%) Amazon MSK
11 7 (2.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.19%) GCP
11 7 (2.19%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.19%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.25%) Internet
2 4 (1.25%) WAN
3 3 (0.94%) DNS
4 2 (0.63%) LAN
4 2 (0.63%) SAN
4 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.31%) DHCP
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) NAS
5 1 (0.31%) Skype
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (22.19%) SQL Server
2 47 (14.69%) Power BI
3 38 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (9.06%) NoSQL
5 28 (8.75%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (5.31%) Tableau
7 16 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (4.06%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.06%) MongoDB
11 12 (3.75%) Oracle Database
12 11 (3.44%) DynamoDB
12 11 (3.44%) Parquet
13 10 (3.13%) Big Data
14 8 (2.50%) MySQL
14 8 (2.50%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.63%) Git
2 9 (2.81%) JIRA
2 9 (2.81%) TeamCity
3 7 (2.19%) GitLab
3 7 (2.19%) SpecFlow
4 5 (1.56%) Selenium
5 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.94%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.94%) Mercurial
6 3 (0.94%) PHPUnit
6 3 (0.94%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.63%) Deequ
7 2 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.63%) JMeter
7 2 (0.63%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) TestComplete
7 2 (0.63%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 100 (31.25%) Finance
2 78 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.88%) Banking
4 35 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.19%) Investment Banking
6 18 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.00%) Front Office
8 12 (3.75%) Retail
9 10 (3.13%) Retail Banking
10 9 (2.81%) Back Office
11 6 (1.88%) Billing
12 5 (1.56%) Marketing
13 4 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.94%) Local Government
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 106 (33.13%) Developer
2 73 (22.81%) Analyst
3 38 (11.88%) Data Engineer
4 33 (10.31%) Senior
5 31 (9.69%) Business Analyst
6 22 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 21 (6.56%) Data Analyst
8 17 (5.31%) Consultant
8 17 (5.31%) Python Developer
9 14 (4.38%) C# Developer
10 13 (4.06%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (3.75%) SQL Developer
12 10 (3.13%) Architect
12 10 (3.13%) Lead
13 9 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (2.81%) Great Plains Consultant
13 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Consultant
13 9 (2.81%) Test Analyst
14 8 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
15 7 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.81%) .NET
2 23 (7.19%) Kafka
3 20 (6.25%) React
4 16 (5.00%) JSON
5 14 (4.38%) HTML
6 12 (3.75%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.75%) XML
7 11 (3.44%) Apache Avro
7 11 (3.44%) PySpark
8 10 (3.13%) Web Services
9 9 (2.81%) CSS
10 8 (2.50%) RESTful
10 8 (2.50%) Svelte
11 7 (2.19%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.19%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.19%) pytest
11 7 (2.19%) REST
12 6 (1.88%) Blazor
12 6 (1.88%) Node.js
12 6 (1.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.38%) Market Risk
2 12 (3.75%) Hedge funds
3 11 (3.44%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.88%) Replication
8 5 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.25%) Derivative
9 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.94%) Equities
11 2 (0.63%) CMDB
11 2 (0.63%) Life Science
11 2 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.69%) Windows
2 18 (5.63%) Linux
3 13 (4.06%) Unix
4 12 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 2 (0.63%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (25.00%) Agile
2 58 (18.13%) Business Intelligence
3 52 (16.25%) Data Modelling
4 49 (15.31%) DevOps
5 44 (13.75%) ETL
6 43 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (13.13%) CI/CD
8 39 (12.19%) Analytics
9 35 (10.94%) Migration
10 33 (10.31%) SDLC
11 32 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 31 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (9.06%) Test Automation
14 28 (8.75%) Full Stack Development
14 28 (8.75%) User Acceptance Testing
15 27 (8.44%) Data Analysis
16 26 (8.13%) Microservices
17 25 (7.81%) Visualisation
18 21 (6.56%) Scrum
19 20 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (33.44%) Python
2 54 (16.88%) C#
3 29 (9.06%) Java
4 27 (8.44%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.13%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.81%) T-SQL
7 17 (5.31%) PL/SQL
8 11 (3.44%) C++
9 10 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (3.13%) Perl
10 9 (2.81%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.50%) Go
11 8 (2.50%) R
12 6 (1.88%) XPath
12 6 (1.88%) XQuery
13 5 (1.56%) Bash
13 5 (1.56%) VBA
14 4 (1.25%) Bicep
14 4 (1.25%) Scala
14 4 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (11.88%) Degree
2 27 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.94%) ISEB
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) CIMA
7 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.38%) QA
2 21 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.56%) SLA
5 4 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.25%) PMO
6 3 (0.94%) EMIR
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) MiFID
7 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (7.19%) Docker
2 13 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (1.56%) 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%) HDFS
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
3 1 (0.31%) Control-M
3 1 (0.31%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.31%) Grafana
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
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 55 (17.19%) Oracle
2 54 (16.88%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.50%) Databricks
4 19 (5.94%) SAP
5 11 (3.44%) NEC
6 8 (2.50%) IBM
7 7 (2.19%) Sybase
8 6 (1.88%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.88%) Northgate
8 6 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.88%) Veritas
8 6 (1.88%) VMware
9 5 (1.56%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.56%) Citrix
9 5 (1.56%) Sun
10 4 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.25%) Siebel
11 3 (0.94%) Adobe
11 3 (0.94%) Google
12 2 (0.63%) Red Hat