SQL Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 7.32% 10.45% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 29.17% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £314 £493 £285
25th Percentile £319 £538 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £438
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +42.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £638 £497
90th Percentile £670 - £538
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

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 18 24 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 14.63% 35.82% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 17
10th Percentile £298 £380 £354
25th Percentile £319 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £463 £563 £575
90th Percentile £538 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% +4.30%

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
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in East Sussex over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in East Sussex

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL

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 9 September 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 8 £450 -28.00% 23
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 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 3 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Finance Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) API Development
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (33.33%) Database Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Database Security
1 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
1 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Blue Prism