SQL Contracts in the City of Westminster

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 8 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 13 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 29.55% 12.82% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.43% 41.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £509 £485 -
25th Percentile £578 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £838 £650 -
90th Percentile £870 £770 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

All Programming Languages
City of Westminster

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 63.64% 30.77% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 3
10th Percentile £453 £405 £667
25th Percentile £491 £506 £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £575 £723
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -20.42% +22.98%
75th Percentile £819 £850 £745
90th Percentile £895 - £752
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the City of Westminster

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the City of Westminster

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of Westminster

SQL
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Mayfair +2 7 £750 -6.25%
Westminster +7 6 - - 4
SQL
Central London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (46.15%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (7.69%) Big Data
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.69%) MySQL
5 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Developer
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (30.77%) ETL Developer
5 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
7 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
7 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Database Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Perl Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
7 1 (7.69%) Report Developer
7 1 (7.69%) SQL Database Developer
7 1 (7.69%) Technology Analyst
7 1 (7.69%) Technology Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Hedge funds
2 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
4 1 (7.69%) Equities
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Dimensional Modelling
1 6 (46.15%) Kanban
1 6 (46.15%) Kimball Methodology
1 6 (46.15%) Project Management
1 6 (46.15%) Scrum
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) Re-Platforming
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Order Management
5 1 (7.69%) Systematic Trading
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
1 6 (46.15%) XPath
1 6 (46.15%) XQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
3 2 (15.38%) VBA
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) EMIR
2 1 (7.69%) FATCA
2 1 (7.69%) MiFID
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 6 (46.15%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase