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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 293 314 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.08% 14.77% 14.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.41% 40.31% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 226 321
10th Percentile £404 £394 £413
25th Percentile £475 £477 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -2.08% +2.13%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £771 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £20.20 - £16.15
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% +49.23% -39.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £43.50
90th Percentile £78.75 - £49.65
Central London median hourly rate £45.79 £48.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.60% +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 725 779 1,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.79% 36.64% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 542 918
10th Percentile £404 £401 £420
25th Percentile £469 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £697 £689 £738
90th Percentile £775 £811 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +5.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 (7.85%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.73%) Confluence
4 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) SAS
5 3 (1.02%) Luigi
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Drupal
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 40 (13.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.34%) SPSS
6 1 (0.34%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.73%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (2.39%) Oracle Assets
4 6 (2.05%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (2.05%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.71%) Endur
5 5 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (1.37%) Aladdin
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.02%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (30.38%) Azure
2 65 (22.18%) Power Platform
3 44 (15.02%) AWS
4 24 (8.19%) GCP
5 19 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.80%) SaaS
7 15 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 9 (3.07%) Serverless
11 7 (2.39%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.39%) GitHub
11 7 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.39%) PaaS
12 6 (2.05%) Collibra
12 6 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.71%) dbt
14 4 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.02%) WAN
3 2 (0.68%) SSH
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) Multicast
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (20.48%) Power BI
2 43 (14.68%) SQL Server
3 33 (11.26%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (9.90%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.22%) Tableau
6 24 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (6.83%) Data Lake
7 20 (6.83%) Relational Database
8 15 (5.12%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.78%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.78%) Hadoop
9 14 (4.78%) Metadata
10 13 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (4.44%) Big Data
10 13 (4.44%) Data Mining
10 13 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (3.75%) Apache Hive
12 9 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.73%) Delta Lake
14 7 (2.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (7.51%) JIRA
2 19 (6.48%) Git
3 8 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.02%) Ant
5 3 (1.02%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) Babel
6 2 (0.68%) GitLab
6 2 (0.68%) NUnit
6 2 (0.68%) Postman
6 2 (0.68%) RStudio
6 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.68%) webpack
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Crucible
7 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.34%) MLflow
7 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.34%) Travis CI
General
1 132 (45.05%) Finance
2 95 (32.42%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.50%) Banking
4 54 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.22%) Investment Banking
6 19 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.44%) Front Office
8 11 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.07%) Back Office
9 9 (3.07%) Police
10 8 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.73%) Retail
11 7 (2.39%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (2.05%) Marketing
12 6 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.05%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.71%) Billing
13 5 (1.71%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (24.91%) Analyst
1 73 (24.91%) Developer
2 42 (14.33%) Data Engineer
3 38 (12.97%) Business Analyst
4 37 (12.63%) Senior
5 32 (10.92%) Data Analyst
6 24 (8.19%) Consultant
7 19 (6.48%) Lead
8 15 (5.12%) Data Business Analyst
9 13 (4.44%) Architect
9 13 (4.44%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.75%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.07%) Applications Support
11 9 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.07%) Python Developer
11 9 (3.07%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 8 (2.73%) DBA
12 8 (2.73%) Lead Consultant
12 8 (2.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.92%) .NET
2 25 (8.53%) Kafka
3 23 (7.85%) HTML
4 22 (7.51%) PySpark
5 17 (5.80%) Spring
6 16 (5.46%) CSS
6 16 (5.46%) React
6 16 (5.46%) Spring Boot
7 12 (4.10%) TensorFlow
8 10 (3.41%) Pandas
8 10 (3.41%) REST
9 8 (2.73%) JSON
9 8 (2.73%) RESTful
10 6 (2.05%) Flask
10 6 (2.05%) scikit-learn
11 5 (1.71%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.71%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.71%) Django
11 5 (1.71%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.71%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.46%) Data Structures
2 12 (4.10%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.41%) Market Risk
5 9 (3.07%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.39%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.05%) Derivative
7 6 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.05%) Replication
7 6 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.71%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.02%) Clustering
10 3 (1.02%) Equities
10 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.12%) Linux
2 11 (3.75%) Unix
2 11 (3.75%) Windows
3 9 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (33.79%) Agile
2 69 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (21.84%) Data Analysis
4 63 (21.50%) Data Modelling
5 62 (21.16%) Business Intelligence
6 61 (20.82%) Analytics
7 56 (19.11%) DevOps
8 40 (13.65%) Visualisation
9 39 (13.31%) ETL
10 35 (11.95%) CI/CD
11 34 (11.60%) Decision-Making
11 34 (11.60%) Scrum
12 33 (11.26%) Data Science
13 29 (9.90%) Data Engineering
13 29 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (9.56%) Migration
15 27 (9.22%) Data Governance
15 27 (9.22%) Machine Learning
16 26 (8.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 120 (40.96%) Python
2 35 (11.95%) JavaScript
3 33 (11.26%) C#
4 32 (10.92%) Java
5 12 (4.10%) R
6 10 (3.41%) Scala
7 9 (3.07%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.73%) Bash
8 8 (2.73%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.05%) VBA
10 5 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.37%) C++
12 3 (1.02%) Bicep
12 3 (1.02%) Ruby
12 3 (1.02%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.68%) Go
13 2 (0.68%) PROC SQL
13 2 (0.68%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 35 (11.95%) Degree
2 25 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 8 (2.73%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.73%) PhD
6 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.02%) CBAP
8 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.68%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) ACCA
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CCAB
9 1 (0.34%) CFA
9 1 (0.34%) CIMA
9 1 (0.34%) IIBA
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.12%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.12%) QA
3 13 (4.44%) MiFID
4 12 (4.10%) EMIR
5 9 (3.07%) Basel II
5 9 (3.07%) GDPR
6 2 (0.68%) IFRS
6 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.34%) GAAP
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) SEPA
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) UCITS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.39%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) GPFS
3 2 (0.68%) NFS
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (8.53%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.80%) Terraform
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Grafana
4 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.68%) Control-M
6 2 (0.68%) Kibana
6 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.34%) Istio
7 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 42 (14.33%) Oracle
3 23 (7.85%) Databricks
4 14 (4.78%) Google
5 8 (2.73%) SAP
6 6 (2.05%) Informatica
6 6 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.71%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.71%) OpenLink
7 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.37%) Charles River
8 4 (1.37%) Cisco
8 4 (1.37%) Dataiku
8 4 (1.37%) IBM
8 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 3 (1.02%) Murex
9 3 (1.02%) OpenText
9 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.02%) Workday