SQL Developer Contracts in England

SQL Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 384 370
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +16
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 73 159 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.46% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 129 258
10th Percentile £263 £363 £363
25th Percentile £313 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £700 £625 £625
90th Percentile £768 £776 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +7.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in England

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the England 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
London -8 52 £650 +8.33% 22
North of England +13 9 £275 -38.89% 10
Midlands +7 5 £425 -12.82% 8
Yorkshire +6 5 £275 -38.89% 3
North West +13 4 £325 -25.71% 5
East Midlands +10 4 £425 +9.68%
South West +46 2 £475 +55.74% 6
East of England +28 1 £438 +45.83% 2
South East +25 1 £500 -2.44% 5
West Midlands -1 1 - - 7
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 72 (98.63%) SQL
2 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
3 29 (39.73%) Finance
4 27 (36.99%) Banking
5 23 (31.51%) Agile
6 22 (30.14%) SQL Server
7 19 (26.03%) Investment Banking
8 18 (24.66%) Java
9 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (21.92%) Data Structures
11 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (20.55%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (20.55%) Relational Database
11 15 (20.55%) Python
12 14 (19.18%) Spring
12 14 (19.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (19.18%) Linux
12 14 (19.18%) C#
12 14 (19.18%) Oracle
12 14 (19.18%) JUnit
12 14 (19.18%) MongoDB
13 13 (17.81%) Kafka
13 13 (17.81%) Database Tuning
13 13 (17.81%) SDLC
13 13 (17.81%) ETL
14 11 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (15.07%) Shell Script
14 11 (15.07%) Equities
14 11 (15.07%) PL/SQL
14 11 (15.07%) Sybase

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (5.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.33%) Azure
1 9 (12.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (5.48%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.37%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.37%) GitHub
5 1 (1.37%) NuGet
5 1 (1.37%) Serverless
5 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.55%) Relational Database
3 14 (19.18%) MongoDB
3 14 (19.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (15.07%) DB2
5 9 (12.33%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.33%) Power BI
6 8 (10.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.85%) Redis
8 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.11%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (4.11%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (4.11%) MySQL
9 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 3 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (4.11%) Tableau
10 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) JUnit
2 6 (8.22%) JIRA
3 5 (6.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.11%) Git
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (4.11%) Subversion
6 2 (2.74%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.37%) GitLab
7 1 (1.37%) Maven
7 1 (1.37%) Mockito
7 1 (1.37%) Selenium
7 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.37%) tSQLt
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (39.73%) Finance
3 27 (36.99%) Banking
4 19 (26.03%) Investment Banking
5 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Local Government
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) Spring
2 13 (17.81%) Kafka
3 11 (15.07%) JMS
4 8 (10.96%) .NET
5 4 (5.48%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.11%) HTML
6 3 (4.11%) RESTful
7 2 (2.74%) CSS
7 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.74%) React
7 2 (2.74%) Reactive Extensions
7 2 (2.74%) Spring Batch
7 2 (2.74%) Spring Security
7 2 (2.74%) Web Services
8 1 (1.37%) Apache Camel
8 1 (1.37%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.37%) Flask
8 1 (1.37%) Node.js
8 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.92%) Data Structures
2 11 (15.07%) Equities
3 7 (9.59%) Hedge funds
3 7 (9.59%) Reference Data
4 5 (6.85%) Derivative
5 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.48%) NHS
6 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.37%) Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.37%) FMCG
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.18%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.51%) Agile
2 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.55%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (17.81%) Database Tuning
4 13 (17.81%) ETL
4 13 (17.81%) SDLC
5 11 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (15.07%) Multithreading
5 11 (15.07%) Open Source
6 9 (12.33%) Microservices
7 8 (10.96%) Data Analysis
7 8 (10.96%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.96%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (9.59%) Migration
8 7 (9.59%) Unit Testing
9 6 (8.22%) Data Migration
10 5 (6.85%) SQL Optimisation
11 4 (5.48%) CRM
11 4 (5.48%) DevOps
11 4 (5.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 72 (98.63%) SQL
2 18 (24.66%) Java
3 15 (20.55%) Python
4 14 (19.18%) C#
5 11 (15.07%) PL/SQL
5 11 (15.07%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.48%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.37%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.74%) Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.11%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Oracle
2 11 (15.07%) Sybase
3 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.48%) SAP
5 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) Informatica
6 1 (1.37%) RedGate
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Veracode