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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 262 298 317
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.68% 16.06% 14.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.18% 40.60% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 198 229
10th Percentile £368 £404 £398
25th Percentile £458 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £598
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.28% -0.42%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £769
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £37.50 £20.20 -
25th Percentile £43.12 £25.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £52.49 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +28.87% +49.23%
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £58.28 £78.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £45.79 £48.50
% change year-on-year +14.64% -5.60% +49.23%

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 652 734 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.58% 39.57% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 496 547
10th Percentile £357 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £661 £697 £698
90th Percentile £764 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £26.32 £20.20 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +28.87% -26.79%
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 £78.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.06% -26.79%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SQL job vacancy trend 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 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

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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

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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 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.67%) Apache
3 7 (2.67%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) CICS
4 4 (1.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.76%) IIS
5 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.91%) BambooHR
2 5 (1.91%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.53%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (1.15%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.76%) Endur
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.77%) Azure
2 61 (23.28%) Power Platform
3 56 (21.37%) AWS
4 30 (11.45%) Snowflake
5 27 (10.31%) GCP
6 24 (9.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (8.78%) dbt
8 22 (8.40%) Serverless
9 19 (7.25%) GitHub
10 16 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.73%) Amazon S3
11 15 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.44%) Prefect
14 7 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.67%) SaaS
15 6 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.29%) Dagster
15 6 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (1.91%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) Multicast
2 2 (0.76%) Firewall
2 2 (0.76%) Internet
2 2 (0.76%) Intranet
2 2 (0.76%) VPN
3 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.38%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.85%) Power BI
2 40 (15.27%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (14.89%) SQL Server
4 27 (10.31%) Tableau
5 20 (7.63%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.73%) Metadata
7 14 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (5.34%) Oracle Database
8 13 (4.96%) BigQuery
9 12 (4.58%) Looker
9 12 (4.58%) NoSQL
10 11 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.82%) Data Lake
12 9 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (3.44%) Db2
12 9 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (3.05%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.67%) DynamoDB
15 6 (2.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (8.40%) Git
2 12 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.58%) JIRA
3 11 (4.20%) GitLab
4 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.91%) JUnit
5 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.15%) Gradle
6 3 (1.15%) Mockito
6 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) ERwin
7 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.76%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 116 (44.27%) Finance
2 66 (25.19%) Social Skills
3 58 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (20.61%) Banking
5 13 (4.96%) Front Office
6 10 (3.82%) Marketing
7 9 (3.44%) Legal
8 6 (2.29%) Back Office
8 6 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.53%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.15%) Law
11 3 (1.15%) Publishing
11 3 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Billing
12 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (20.61%) Data Engineer
2 45 (17.18%) Analyst
3 43 (16.41%) Developer
4 34 (12.98%) Senior
5 22 (8.40%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.63%) Lead
7 14 (5.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 14 (5.34%) Snowflake Engineer
8 13 (4.96%) Architect
8 13 (4.96%) Consultant
9 12 (4.58%) DBA
10 10 (3.82%) Business Analyst
10 10 (3.82%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.82%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.44%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.44%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.44%) SQL DBA
12 8 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.67%) Applications Support
13 7 (2.67%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.54%) .NET
2 21 (8.02%) Kafka
3 17 (6.49%) PySpark
3 17 (6.49%) REST
4 13 (4.96%) JSON
5 12 (4.58%) XML
6 11 (4.20%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.20%) Spring
6 11 (4.20%) Web Services
7 10 (3.82%) RESTful
7 10 (3.82%) SOAP
8 9 (3.44%) Middleware
8 9 (3.44%) React
8 9 (3.44%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.05%) HTML
10 7 (2.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (2.67%) PyTorch
10 7 (2.67%) scikit-learn
10 7 (2.67%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.58%) Equities
3 11 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.82%) Data Structures
4 10 (3.82%) Derivative
4 10 (3.82%) Fixed Income
5 9 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.29%) Clustering
8 6 (2.29%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.91%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.53%) DataPower
10 4 (1.53%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.53%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.63%) Linux
2 18 (6.87%) Unix
3 14 (5.34%) Windows
4 6 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.53%) zOS
6 3 (1.15%) Android
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (37.02%) Analytics
2 72 (27.48%) Data Modelling
3 68 (25.95%) Data Engineering
4 67 (25.57%) AI
5 59 (22.52%) Business Intelligence
5 59 (22.52%) CI/CD
6 53 (20.23%) ETL
7 51 (19.47%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (19.08%) DevOps
9 47 (17.94%) Agile
10 46 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (13.74%) Migration
12 35 (13.36%) Data Governance
13 34 (12.98%) Decision-Making
13 34 (12.98%) Validation
14 32 (12.21%) Machine Learning
14 32 (12.21%) Performance Tuning
15 31 (11.83%) Data Analysis
16 28 (10.69%) Data Science
16 28 (10.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 135 (51.53%) Python
2 31 (11.83%) Java
3 29 (11.07%) C#
4 18 (6.87%) PL/SQL
5 13 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (3.82%) R
7 10 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.53%) JCL
11 3 (1.15%) C++
11 3 (1.15%) Scala
12 2 (0.76%) C
12 2 (0.76%) ProC
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (9.54%) Degree
2 22 (8.40%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.15%) PhD
8 2 (0.76%) CISM
8 2 (0.76%) CISSP
8 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) CBAP
9 1 (0.38%) CCA
9 1 (0.38%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.94%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.07%) QA
3 17 (6.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.15%) IFRS
5 2 (0.76%) EMIR
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.76%) MiFID
5 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.38%) GAAP
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PERC
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (7.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) GridGain
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.38%) Varnish
4 1 (0.38%) XenApp
4 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.96%) Terraform
3 4 (1.53%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.38%) Control-M
5 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.38%) SCCM
5 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.65%) Oracle
3 35 (13.36%) Databricks
4 12 (4.58%) Google
5 10 (3.82%) Informatica
6 7 (2.67%) Workday
7 6 (2.29%) Citrix
7 6 (2.29%) IBM
7 6 (2.29%) Murex
7 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.91%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.91%) SAP
8 5 (1.91%) Splunk
9 4 (1.53%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.53%) Charles River
9 4 (1.53%) Foundry
9 4 (1.53%) Palantir
9 4 (1.53%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.15%) Adobe