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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 266 303 315
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.93% 16.26% 14.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.99% 41.34% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 202 227
10th Percentile £370 £404 £388
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £675 £718 £681
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.75%
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 £45.00
% change year-on-year +14.64% +1.74% +38.46%

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 649 733 773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.66% 39.35% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 497 540
10th Percentile £363 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £696 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
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 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +14.31% -32.08%

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 18 July 2026.

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 July 2026.

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 July 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £475 -
SQL
Central London

SQL
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 22 (8.27%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.01%) Apache
4 7 (2.63%) Confluence
5 4 (1.50%) CICS
6 3 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.75%) IIS
7 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.38%) nginx
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.88%) BambooHR
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.75%) Endur
5 2 (0.75%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.38%) Magento
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.38%) Summit
6 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.57%) Azure
2 61 (22.93%) Power Platform
3 58 (21.80%) AWS
4 34 (12.78%) Snowflake
5 28 (10.53%) GCP
6 24 (9.02%) dbt
7 23 (8.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (7.89%) Serverless
9 20 (7.52%) GitHub
10 16 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.64%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (3.76%) Prefect
15 7 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.63%) Dagster
16 6 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.26%) SaaS
17 5 (1.88%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.88%) Multicast
2 3 (1.13%) VPN
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) Internet
3 2 (0.75%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.38%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (19.55%) Power BI
2 43 (16.17%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (14.66%) SQL Server
4 25 (9.40%) Tableau
5 17 (6.39%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.02%) Metadata
7 14 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 14 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 14 (5.26%) Oracle Database
8 13 (4.89%) NoSQL
9 12 (4.51%) Looker
10 11 (4.14%) Data Lake
11 10 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (3.38%) Db2
12 9 (3.38%) MongoDB
12 9 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (2.63%) DynamoDB
14 6 (2.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 23 (8.65%) Git
2 12 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.14%) GitLab
3 11 (4.14%) JIRA
4 6 (2.26%) JUnit
5 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.13%) Gradle
7 3 (1.13%) Mockito
7 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.75%) Selenium
8 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.38%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
General
1 116 (43.61%) Finance
2 70 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 57 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (21.05%) Banking
5 14 (5.26%) Front Office
6 11 (4.14%) Marketing
7 9 (3.38%) Legal
8 7 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.26%) Back Office
10 5 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.88%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.50%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.13%) Law
12 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.13%) Publishing
12 3 (1.13%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 51 (19.17%) Data Engineer
2 49 (18.42%) Analyst
3 43 (16.17%) Developer
4 36 (13.53%) Senior
5 26 (9.77%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.52%) Lead
7 14 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 14 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
8 13 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 13 (4.89%) Consultant
8 13 (4.89%) DBA
9 12 (4.51%) Architect
10 11 (4.14%) C# Developer
10 11 (4.14%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.76%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.76%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) SQL DBA
12 9 (3.38%) Data Scientist
13 7 (2.63%) Applications Support
13 7 (2.63%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.15%) .NET
2 22 (8.27%) Kafka
3 16 (6.02%) PySpark
3 16 (6.02%) REST
4 14 (5.26%) JSON
5 13 (4.89%) AngularJS
6 12 (4.51%) Spring
6 12 (4.51%) XML
7 11 (4.14%) Web Services
8 10 (3.76%) RESTful
8 10 (3.76%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.38%) Middleware
9 9 (3.38%) SOAP
10 8 (3.01%) React
11 7 (2.63%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.63%) HTML
11 7 (2.63%) PyTorch
11 7 (2.63%) scikit-learn
11 7 (2.63%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.51%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.14%) Fixed Income
5 10 (3.76%) Equities
6 9 (3.38%) Derivative
6 9 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.01%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.63%) Clustering
9 5 (1.88%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.88%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.88%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.88%) Replication
10 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.50%) DataPower
10 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.50%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.89%) Linux
2 20 (7.52%) Unix
3 14 (5.26%) Windows
4 6 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.50%) zOS
6 3 (1.13%) Android
6 3 (1.13%) 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 98 (36.84%) Analytics
2 75 (28.20%) Data Modelling
3 70 (26.32%) AI
4 67 (25.19%) Data Engineering
5 62 (23.31%) CI/CD
6 61 (22.93%) Business Intelligence
7 54 (20.30%) ETL
8 53 (19.92%) DevOps
9 48 (18.05%) Agile
9 48 (18.05%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (14.29%) Validation
12 37 (13.91%) Data Governance
13 35 (13.16%) Migration
14 34 (12.78%) Performance Tuning
15 33 (12.41%) Decision-Making
16 32 (12.03%) Data Analysis
16 32 (12.03%) Machine Learning
17 28 (10.53%) Data Science
17 28 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (48.87%) Python
2 32 (12.03%) C#
3 31 (11.65%) Java
4 17 (6.39%) PL/SQL
5 13 (4.89%) T-SQL
6 12 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.51%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (3.76%) R
9 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.63%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.50%) JCL
11 3 (1.13%) C++
11 3 (1.13%) Scala
12 2 (0.75%) C
12 2 (0.75%) ProC
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (9.02%) Degree
2 22 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.88%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.13%) PhD
7 2 (0.75%) CISM
7 2 (0.75%) CISSP
7 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) CBAP
8 1 (0.38%) CCA
8 1 (0.38%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.05%) Data Quality
2 29 (10.90%) QA
3 16 (6.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.75%) EMIR
5 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.75%) IFRS
5 2 (0.75%) MiFID
5 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.75%) 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%) NIST
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 19 (7.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) 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 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.51%) Terraform
3 5 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.50%) Ansible
5 2 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Control-M
6 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.66%) Oracle
3 32 (12.03%) Databricks
4 12 (4.51%) Google
5 10 (3.76%) Informatica
6 7 (2.63%) Workday
7 6 (2.26%) Citrix
7 6 (2.26%) IBM
7 6 (2.26%) Murex
7 6 (2.26%) SAP
8 5 (1.88%) Amplitude
8 5 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.50%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.50%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.50%) Solace
9 4 (1.50%) Splunk
10 3 (1.13%) Adobe
10 3 (1.13%) Charles River
10 3 (1.13%) Sybase