SQL Contracts in East London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 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 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 12 35 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 11.43% 15.15% 14.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 47.95% 48.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 21
10th Percentile £402 £363 £203
25th Percentile £415 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £540 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £616 £500
90th Percentile £671 £750 £575
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
London median hourly rate £49.50 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +12.30%

All Programming Languages
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 73 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 26.67% 31.60% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 65 45
10th Percentile £295 £400 £345
25th Percentile £415 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £650
90th Percentile £664 £808 £950
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in East London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in East London

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Daily Rate Histogram in East London

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in East London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in East London

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Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Tower Hamlets +4 7 £625 +15.74% 1
Greenwich +4 1 £538 +3.37%
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (25.00%) Tableau
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Ant
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (8.33%) Toad
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (25.00%) D3.js
3 3 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (16.67%) JSON
4 2 (16.67%) WCF
5 1 (8.33%) EDI
5 1 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (8.33%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) Middleware
5 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
1 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
1 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Data Science
2 4 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
3 3 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 2 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Korn
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) SEPA
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Cognizant
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Perforce