SQL Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 20.45% 8.47% 31.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 81.82% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 10
10th Percentile £458 £470 £565
25th Percentile £463 £481 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £775
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -32.90% +29.17%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £928
90th Percentile £608 £590 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Programming Languages
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 10 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 25.00% 16.95% 62.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 24
10th Percentile £438 £448 £483
25th Percentile £463 £477 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £750
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -30.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £552 £953
90th Percentile £638 £583 £1,088
Central London median daily rate £534 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% - -4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing SQL

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 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the City of Westminster

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing SQL

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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 6 February 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
Mayfair -1 6 £513 -6.82%
Westminster +3 3 £525 +5.53% 2
SQL
Central London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) MiFID Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Reporting Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Vertica