SQL Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 288 315 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.03% 14.75% 14.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.45% 40.13% 36.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 224 312
10th Percentile £404 £391 £413
25th Percentile £475 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £720 £675 £701
90th Percentile £775 £773 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.28 - £16.15
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +49.23% -39.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £81.25 - £49.65
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% +49.23% -39.25%

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 712 785 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.62% 36.77% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 550 902
10th Percentile £404 £406 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £801 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the City of London

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the City of London

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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 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

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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 3 July 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 - - 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 23 (7.99%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.78%) Confluence
4 6 (2.08%) Apache
4 6 (2.08%) SAS
5 3 (1.04%) Luigi
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 39 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.35%) SPSS
6 1 (0.35%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.43%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (1.74%) Endur
4 5 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.74%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (1.39%) Aladdin
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (1.04%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.56%) Azure
2 64 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 43 (14.93%) AWS
4 22 (7.64%) GCP
5 19 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.90%) SaaS
7 15 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (3.13%) Serverless
9 9 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.43%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.43%) GitHub
10 7 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.43%) PaaS
11 6 (2.08%) Collibra
11 6 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.39%) dbt
12 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) Firewall
2 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.04%) WAN
3 2 (0.69%) SSH
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) Multicast
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.49%) Power BI
2 43 (14.93%) SQL Server
3 33 (11.46%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (10.07%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.38%) Tableau
6 24 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (6.94%) Data Lake
8 19 (6.60%) Relational Database
9 15 (5.21%) MongoDB
10 14 (4.86%) Hadoop
11 13 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (4.51%) BigQuery
11 13 (4.51%) Data Mining
11 13 (4.51%) Metadata
11 13 (4.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (4.17%) Big Data
13 11 (3.82%) Apache Hive
14 9 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (2.78%) Delta Lake
16 7 (2.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (7.64%) JIRA
2 19 (6.60%) Git
3 8 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.04%) Ant
4 3 (1.04%) Maven
4 3 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.69%) Babel
5 2 (0.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) NUnit
5 2 (0.69%) RStudio
5 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (0.69%) webpack
6 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.35%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.35%) Travis CI
General
1 129 (44.79%) Finance
2 93 (32.29%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.88%) Banking
4 53 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.51%) Front Office
8 11 (3.82%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.13%) Police
10 8 (2.78%) Back Office
10 8 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Retail
11 7 (2.43%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (2.08%) Marketing
12 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.39%) Billing
14 4 (1.39%) General Ledger
15 3 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (25.35%) Developer
2 71 (24.65%) Analyst
3 41 (14.24%) Data Engineer
4 37 (12.85%) Business Analyst
4 37 (12.85%) Senior
5 31 (10.76%) Data Analyst
6 24 (8.33%) Consultant
7 19 (6.60%) Lead
8 14 (4.86%) Data Business Analyst
9 13 (4.51%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.17%) Architect
11 11 (3.82%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.13%) Python Developer
12 9 (3.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 8 (2.78%) DBA
13 8 (2.78%) Lead Consultant
13 8 (2.78%) Risk Consultant
13 8 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.11%) .NET
2 25 (8.68%) Kafka
3 23 (7.99%) HTML
4 22 (7.64%) PySpark
5 17 (5.90%) Spring
6 16 (5.56%) CSS
6 16 (5.56%) React
6 16 (5.56%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.17%) TensorFlow
8 10 (3.47%) Pandas
8 10 (3.47%) REST
9 8 (2.78%) RESTful
10 7 (2.43%) JSON
11 6 (2.08%) Flask
11 6 (2.08%) scikit-learn
12 5 (1.74%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.74%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.74%) Django
12 5 (1.74%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.74%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.47%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.13%) Credit Risk
6 6 (2.08%) Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.08%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.08%) Replication
6 6 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.74%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.04%) Clustering
9 3 (1.04%) Equities
9 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.21%) Linux
2 11 (3.82%) Unix
2 11 (3.82%) Windows
3 9 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (34.03%) Agile
2 68 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (21.88%) Data Analysis
4 62 (21.53%) Data Modelling
5 61 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
6 59 (20.49%) Analytics
7 55 (19.10%) DevOps
8 40 (13.89%) Visualisation
9 38 (13.19%) ETL
10 34 (11.81%) Scrum
11 33 (11.46%) CI/CD
11 33 (11.46%) Decision-Making
12 31 (10.76%) Data Science
13 29 (10.07%) Data Engineering
13 29 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (9.38%) Migration
16 26 (9.03%) Data Governance
16 26 (9.03%) Machine Learning
16 26 (9.03%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 116 (40.28%) Python
2 35 (12.15%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.46%) C#
4 32 (11.11%) Java
5 12 (4.17%) R
6 10 (3.47%) Scala
7 9 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.78%) Bash
9 7 (2.43%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.08%) VBA
11 5 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.39%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Bicep
13 3 (1.04%) Ruby
13 3 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.69%) Go
14 2 (0.69%) PROC SQL
14 2 (0.69%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 34 (11.81%) Degree
2 25 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.78%) PhD
6 7 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.04%) CBAP
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.69%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) ACCA
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CCAB
9 1 (0.35%) CFA
9 1 (0.35%) CIMA
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) IIBA
9 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.21%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.21%) QA
3 13 (4.51%) MiFID
4 12 (4.17%) EMIR
5 9 (3.13%) Basel II
5 9 (3.13%) GDPR
6 2 (0.69%) IFRS
6 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) UCITS
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) GPFS
3 2 (0.69%) NFS
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.74%) Ansible
3 5 (1.74%) Grafana
4 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.69%) Control-M
6 2 (0.69%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.24%) Oracle
3 22 (7.64%) Databricks
4 13 (4.51%) Google
5 8 (2.78%) SAP
6 6 (2.08%) Informatica
6 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.74%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.74%) OpenLink
7 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.39%) Charles River
8 4 (1.39%) Cisco
8 4 (1.39%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.39%) IBM
8 4 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Murex
9 3 (1.04%) OpenText
9 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.04%) Workday