SQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 283 309 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.05% 14.73% 14.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.34% 41.37% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 218 276
10th Percentile £382 £400 £398
25th Percentile £444 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +0.42% +1.70%
75th Percentile £695 £703 £696
90th Percentile £823 £775 £779
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £21.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.44 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £48.25 - £12.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £12.75
90th Percentile £76.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +16.27% +232.00% -76.64%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 653 747 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.04% 35.61% 37.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 504 749
10th Percentile £390 £406 £408
25th Percentile £463 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £608
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -2.96% +1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £731
90th Percentile £775 £823 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
SQL
Central London

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.47%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) SAS
5 3 (1.06%) Luigi
6 2 (0.71%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.35%) SPSS
4 1 (0.35%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (2.12%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (2.12%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.77%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.77%) Endur
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (1.77%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.41%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.06%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.35%) Maximo
6 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.92%) Azure
2 62 (21.91%) Power Platform
3 47 (16.61%) AWS
4 27 (9.54%) GCP
5 16 (5.65%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.95%) SaaS
7 13 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.83%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.83%) GitHub
9 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (2.83%) Serverless
10 7 (2.47%) Collibra
11 6 (2.12%) PaaS
12 5 (1.77%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.41%) dbt
13 4 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) Firewall
2 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.06%) SSH
2 3 (1.06%) WAN
3 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) NAS
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.85%) Power BI
2 34 (12.01%) SQL Server
3 33 (11.66%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (9.54%) Relational Database
5 25 (8.83%) NoSQL
6 24 (8.48%) Tableau
7 21 (7.42%) Data Lake
8 19 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (4.59%) BigQuery
9 13 (4.59%) Data Mining
10 11 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (3.89%) Metadata
10 11 (3.89%) MongoDB
11 9 (3.18%) Big Data
11 9 (3.18%) Hadoop
12 8 (2.83%) Apache Hive
12 8 (2.83%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.47%) Oracle Database
13 7 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) Git
2 15 (5.30%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.06%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.71%) JUnit
5 2 (0.71%) Maven
5 2 (0.71%) RStudio
5 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) Mockito
6 1 (0.35%) NUnit
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 112 (39.58%) Finance
2 86 (30.39%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (16.61%) Banking
5 22 (7.77%) Investment Banking
6 20 (7.07%) Front Office
7 19 (6.71%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.83%) Marketing
9 8 (2.83%) Police
9 8 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.47%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.12%) Back Office
11 6 (2.12%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.77%) Retail
13 4 (1.41%) Legal
14 3 (1.06%) Billing
14 3 (1.06%) Games
14 3 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (25.80%) Developer
2 66 (23.32%) Analyst
3 41 (14.49%) Data Engineer
4 34 (12.01%) Senior
5 30 (10.60%) Business Analyst
6 29 (10.25%) Data Analyst
7 26 (9.19%) Lead
8 22 (7.77%) Consultant
9 16 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.59%) Data Business Analyst
11 12 (4.24%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.53%) Architect
12 10 (3.53%) Senior Consultant
13 9 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (2.83%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Lead Consultant
14 8 (2.83%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.83%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.66%) .NET
2 26 (9.19%) HTML
3 20 (7.07%) CSS
4 19 (6.71%) Spring
5 17 (6.01%) Spring Boot
6 16 (5.65%) Kafka
7 14 (4.95%) React
8 13 (4.59%) PySpark
9 11 (3.89%) Pandas
10 9 (3.18%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.18%) jQuery
10 9 (3.18%) REST
10 9 (3.18%) XML
11 8 (2.83%) Flask
11 8 (2.83%) JSON
11 8 (2.83%) Node.js
11 8 (2.83%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.12%) RESTful
12 6 (2.12%) scikit-learn
12 6 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.89%) Algorithms
3 9 (3.18%) Market Risk
4 8 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.12%) Low-Code
6 6 (2.12%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.77%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.77%) Derivative
7 5 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.53%) Linux
2 9 (3.18%) Unix
3 8 (2.83%) Windows
4 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.57%) Agile
2 70 (24.73%) Analytics
3 64 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (22.61%) Data Modelling
4 60 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (20.14%) Data Analysis
6 45 (15.90%) DevOps
7 44 (15.55%) ETL
8 38 (13.43%) Scrum
8 38 (13.43%) Visualisation
9 35 (12.37%) Decision-Making
10 34 (12.01%) CI/CD
11 33 (11.66%) Data Governance
11 33 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (10.95%) Data Science
13 25 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
13 25 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (8.48%) Microservices
14 24 (8.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.82%) Python
2 43 (15.19%) Java
3 42 (14.84%) JavaScript
4 35 (12.37%) C#
5 11 (3.89%) Scala
6 10 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (3.53%) R
7 9 (3.18%) PL/SQL
7 9 (3.18%) VBA
8 8 (2.83%) Bash
9 7 (2.47%) C++
10 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.41%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.06%) RPG
13 2 (0.71%) AWK
13 2 (0.71%) Go
13 2 (0.71%) Korn
13 2 (0.71%) PHP
13 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.54%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.83%) Degree
3 17 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.41%) CISSP
6 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) PhD
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.35%) ACCA
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CCAB
8 1 (0.35%) CIMA
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
8 1 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.37%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.59%) QA
3 10 (3.53%) EMIR
3 10 (3.53%) GDPR
4 9 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.18%) MiFID
5 8 (2.83%) Basel II
6 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) GPFS
3 2 (0.71%) NFS
4 1 (0.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.30%) Terraform
3 6 (2.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.71%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.35%) Ambari
6 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.35%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.19%) Oracle
3 19 (6.71%) Databricks
4 15 (5.30%) Google
5 6 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.77%) Informatica
6 5 (1.77%) OpenLink
6 5 (1.77%) SAP
7 4 (1.41%) Charles River
7 4 (1.41%) OutSystems
7 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.06%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco
8 3 (1.06%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.06%) Foundry
8 3 (1.06%) Hotjar
8 3 (1.06%) OpenText
8 3 (1.06%) Optimizely
8 3 (1.06%) Red Hat