SQL Developer Contracts in the City of London

SQL Developer
Central London > City of London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 117 167
Rank change year-on-year +4 +50 -14
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 6 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.46% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.48% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - £456 £399
25th Percentile £625 £644 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £825 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £675 £838 £625
90th Percentile - £891 £636
Central London median daily rate £650 £813 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +54.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the City of London

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the City of London

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the City of London

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Data Mart

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mart
3 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) Flask
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (50.00%) User Experience
1 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle