SQL Contracts in East Sussex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 7 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing SQL 14 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 12.28% 2.35% 14.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.85% 6.45% 41.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 11
10th Percentile £319 - £450
25th Percentile £353 £613 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £823
90th Percentile £617 - £850
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%

All Programming Languages
East Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 31 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 22.81% 36.47% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 23
10th Percentile £325 £306 £405
25th Percentile £375 £325 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £773
90th Percentile £638 £566 £845
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.50
25th Percentile - - £51.88
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £65.50
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in East Sussex

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in East Sussex

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in East Sussex

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in East Sussex

SQL
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Brighton +6 10 £450 - 75
Hove - 2 £638 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) DBA
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) SQL DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Project Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) API Development
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Database Security
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) User Stories
4 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) D-Link
3 1 (7.14%) Meraki
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) WatchGuard