SQL Contracts in Croydon

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 14 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 13 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 14.29% 14.48% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 30.43% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 11
10th Percentile £448 £324 £450
25th Percentile £466 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £479 £455
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.22% -9.00%
75th Percentile £738 £519 £500
90th Percentile £741 £523 -
South London median daily rate £638 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +32.12% -8.10% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 69 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 57.14% 47.59% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 58
10th Percentile £425 £362 £453
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £544 £625
90th Percentile £538 £583 £650
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Croydon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon MSK
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
2 3 (23.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Gradle
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Liquibase
1 5 (38.46%) Mockito
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Public Sector
2 5 (38.46%) Electronics
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
2 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 5 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Java Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Architect
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Kafka
2 5 (38.46%) OpenAPI
2 5 (38.46%) React
2 5 (38.46%) Spring
2 5 (38.46%) Spring Boot
2 5 (38.46%) Swagger
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Avro
3 3 (23.08%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.69%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (38.46%) Digital Marketing
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Programme Management
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Lua
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP