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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 262 278 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 14.92% 12.65% 15.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.11% 37.37% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 190 356
10th Percentile £405 £413 £413
25th Percentile £474 £488 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.26% -
75th Percentile £708 £675 £712
90th Percentile £781 £775 £772
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -7.62% -6.25%

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 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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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 1 May 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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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 21 (8.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.96%) Apache
3 10 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.82%) Confluence
4 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.91%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.91%) SAS
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.76%) Luigi
8 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.38%) Mule
8 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.67%) Endur
3 5 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.76%) Actimize
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle iProcurement
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.38%) BASE24
6 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.38%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.38%) Kondor
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 64 (24.43%) Azure
2 55 (20.99%) AWS
3 54 (20.61%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.87%) GCP
5 14 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (4.20%) SaaS
7 11 (4.20%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.82%) Serverless
9 9 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (3.44%) GitHub
10 7 (2.67%) dbt
11 6 (2.29%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.29%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.15%) Boomi
13 3 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) Firewall
1 4 (1.53%) SSH
2 1 (0.38%) ATM
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.38%) Multicast
2 1 (0.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.32%) Power BI
2 33 (12.60%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (12.21%) NoSQL
4 30 (11.45%) SQL Server
5 28 (10.69%) Tableau
6 23 (8.78%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.87%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (4.20%) Apache Hive
9 11 (4.20%) Hadoop
9 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.82%) BigQuery
10 10 (3.82%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.44%) Big Data
11 9 (3.44%) Metadata
11 9 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (3.05%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (2.67%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (9.54%) JIRA
2 20 (7.63%) Git
3 11 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.91%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.91%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.53%) RStudio
5 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.15%) Ant
6 3 (1.15%) Maven
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.76%) Babel
7 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.76%) JUnit
7 2 (0.76%) NUnit
7 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (0.76%) webpack
8 1 (0.38%) Crucible
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 89 (33.97%) Finance
2 76 (29.01%) Social Skills
3 50 (19.08%) Banking
4 46 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 24 (9.16%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.34%) Back Office
8 9 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.44%) Front Office
9 8 (3.05%) Retail
10 6 (2.29%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Police
11 5 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.53%) Marketing
12 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Billing
13 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (27.48%) Developer
2 61 (23.28%) Analyst
3 38 (14.50%) Data Engineer
4 29 (11.07%) Senior
5 27 (10.31%) Business Analyst
6 26 (9.92%) Data Analyst
7 19 (7.25%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 13 (4.96%) Consultant
9 13 (4.96%) Lead
10 11 (4.20%) Architect
10 11 (4.20%) Data Business Analyst
11 10 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (3.44%) Data Scientist
12 9 (3.44%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.67%) Support Analyst
14 6 (2.29%) Analyst Developer
14 6 (2.29%) Applications Support
14 6 (2.29%) Power BI Developer
14 6 (2.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.50%) Kafka
2 24 (9.16%) .NET
3 23 (8.78%) React
3 23 (8.78%) Spring
4 21 (8.02%) PySpark
5 20 (7.63%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.49%) HTML
7 13 (4.96%) CSS
8 10 (3.82%) JSON
9 9 (3.44%) REST
9 9 (3.44%) TensorFlow
10 8 (3.05%) Web Services
11 7 (2.67%) Node.js
11 7 (2.67%) RESTful
12 6 (2.29%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.29%) XML
13 5 (1.91%) pydantic
13 5 (1.91%) YAML
14 4 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
14 4 (1.53%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.87%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.82%) Reference Data
5 8 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.05%) Credit Risk
5 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.05%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.29%) Derivative
6 6 (2.29%) Equities
6 6 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.91%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.91%) Replication
8 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.25%) Linux
2 16 (6.11%) Windows
3 14 (5.34%) Unix
4 11 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Solaris
6 1 (0.38%) SUSE
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.10%) Agile
2 66 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (18.70%) DevOps
4 48 (18.32%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (17.18%) Analytics
5 45 (17.18%) Data Modelling
6 42 (16.03%) Data Analysis
7 38 (14.50%) ETL
8 37 (14.12%) Visualisation
9 33 (12.60%) Microservices
10 32 (12.21%) CI/CD
11 27 (10.31%) Migration
12 25 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (9.16%) Data Engineering
13 24 (9.16%) Decision-Making
14 23 (8.78%) Data Science
14 23 (8.78%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (8.40%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.40%) Test Automation
16 21 (8.02%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (40.08%) Python
2 41 (15.65%) Java
3 35 (13.36%) JavaScript
4 24 (9.16%) C#
5 12 (4.58%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.44%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.44%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.05%) Scala
8 7 (2.67%) Bash
8 7 (2.67%) R
9 5 (1.91%) Ruby
9 5 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.53%) C
10 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.53%) VBA
11 3 (1.15%) C++
12 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.76%) Perl
12 2 (0.76%) RPG
12 2 (0.76%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 43 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.78%) Degree
4 16 (6.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.91%) PhD
7 4 (1.53%) CBAP
8 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.15%) PMP
9 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CFA
10 1 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.92%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.34%) QA
3 13 (4.96%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.58%) GDPR
5 6 (2.29%) MiFID
6 5 (1.91%) EMIR
7 4 (1.53%) Basel II
8 2 (0.76%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.38%) Basel III
9 1 (0.38%) IFRS
9 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.38%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) UCITS
System Software
1 10 (3.82%) Docker
2 5 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) HDFS
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.38%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 35 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.49%) Terraform
3 7 (2.67%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Control-M
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) QRadar
6 1 (0.38%) Rancher
6 1 (0.38%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (14.89%) Oracle
2 34 (12.98%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.11%) Databricks
4 10 (3.82%) Google
5 8 (3.05%) IBM
5 8 (3.05%) SAP
6 7 (2.67%) OpenLink
6 7 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.29%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.91%) Informatica
8 5 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.53%) TOWER Software
10 3 (1.15%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.15%) Murex
10 3 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) VMware
11 2 (0.76%) Confluent
11 2 (0.76%) Workday