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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SQL 16 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 19.51% 13.68% 7.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.04% 30.23% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 7
10th Percentile £462 £423 £376
25th Percentile £475 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £730 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +53.58% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £738 £514 £469
90th Percentile £742 £519 £505
South London median daily rate £625 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +31.58% +11.76% -15.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 43 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 57.32% 45.26% 39.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 41
10th Percentile £452 £400 £425
25th Percentile £474 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £538 £625
90th Percentile £726 £567 £675
South London median daily rate £541 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +5.61% -6.82% -4.35%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Croydon over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Croydon

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Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL

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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 6 (37.50%) Confluence
1 6 (37.50%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (43.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (43.75%) AWS KMS
3 7 (43.75%) Route 53
4 6 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (37.50%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (37.50%) Azure
4 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) FTP
1 6 (37.50%) HTTP
1 6 (37.50%) IMAP
1 6 (37.50%) OpenLDAP
1 6 (37.50%) SMTP
1 6 (37.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) DataStage
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) Git
3 6 (37.50%) JIRA
3 6 (37.50%) JUnit
3 6 (37.50%) Mockito
3 6 (37.50%) Vagrant
4 5 (31.25%) Gradle
4 5 (31.25%) Liquibase
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
5 1 (6.25%) jMock
5 1 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Electronics
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 5 (31.25%) Marketing
3 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) LDAP
2 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 6 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 5 (31.25%) OpenAPI
3 5 (31.25%) React
3 5 (31.25%) Swagger
4 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) PowerMock
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Integration
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Ubuntu
2 6 (37.50%) VMS
2 6 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) DevOps
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Change Management
4 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 6 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Patch Management
4 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) TDD
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (31.25%) Programme Management
5 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) Groovy
3 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (31.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) AWS Certification
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Docker
2 7 (43.75%) Postfix
3 6 (37.50%) DFS Replication
3 6 (37.50%) Dovecot
3 6 (37.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Grafana
1 7 (43.75%) Prometheus
2 6 (37.50%) Nessus
2 6 (37.50%) Proxmox
2 6 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (31.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian