SQL Contracts in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,227 3,800 5,529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 12.15% 10.21% 11.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.19% 33.05% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,304 2,810 4,054
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 55 78
10th Percentile £23.14 £23.25 £21.91
25th Percentile £31.00 £30.00 £31.84
Median hourly rate £43.16 £42.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -15.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.75 £71.19
90th Percentile £67.05 £60.00 £80.75
UK median hourly rate £42.82 £42.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +0.74% -17.07% +46.43%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,918 11,499 16,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.58% 30.90% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,152 8,222 11,956
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 480 416
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.52 £30.38
25th Percentile £36.25 £49.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.38 £80.69
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 -2 1,940 £535 -5.31% 6,807
North of England -3 339 £475 - 1,623
South East +13 329 £500 +3.73% 1,367
Midlands +4 262 £425 +6.25% 915
North West -2 191 £470 -1.05% 889
West Midlands +7 186 £450 +5.88% 536
South West +14 146 £444 -17.44% 542
Yorkshire -3 123 £475 -5.00% 582
East of England +22 93 £488 +11.43% 575
East Midlands -4 71 £380 -5.00% 374
North East -1 26 £464 -2.37% 157
SQL
UK

SQL
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
1 127 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 122 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 108 (3.35%) Confluence
4 105 (3.25%) Apache
5 55 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 36 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
7 34 (1.05%) SAS
8 32 (0.99%) IIS
9 29 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 29 (0.90%) WebLogic
10 24 (0.74%) Tomcat
10 24 (0.74%) WebSphere
11 22 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
12 19 (0.59%) Skype for Business
13 16 (0.50%) JBoss
13 16 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 12 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
15 11 (0.34%) MQSeries
16 9 (0.28%) Mattermost
16 9 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 243 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.53%) Maya
5 15 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
6 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.34%) NUKE
7 8 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.22%) Adobe Captivate
8 7 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.062%) Maple
10 2 (0.062%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.031%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.031%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.031%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.031%) Revit
11 1 (0.031%) SPSS
11 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 69 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
2 55 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 51 (1.58%) Aladdin
4 39 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
4 39 (1.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 38 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
6 33 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
7 28 (0.87%) Endur
8 23 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
9 19 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
9 19 (0.59%) thinkFolio
10 18 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
11 16 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
12 15 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
12 15 (0.46%) Kondor
13 14 (0.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 14 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
15 9 (0.28%) Maximo
16 8 (0.25%) Oracle HRMS
Cloud Services
1 861 (26.68%) Azure
2 671 (20.79%) AWS
3 583 (18.07%) Power Platform
4 225 (6.97%) GCP
5 181 (5.61%) Snowflake
6 173 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 160 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 143 (4.43%) Serverless
9 136 (4.21%) dbt
10 125 (3.87%) GitHub
11 110 (3.41%) Amazon S3
12 106 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 96 (2.97%) PowerApps
14 93 (2.88%) SaaS
15 86 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
16 79 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
17 73 (2.26%) Power Automate
18 54 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
19 52 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
19 52 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.33%) DNS
2 35 (1.08%) Firewall
3 25 (0.77%) HTTP
3 25 (0.77%) Skype
4 22 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 20 (0.62%) DHCP
6 17 (0.53%) Internet
7 15 (0.46%) iSCSI
7 15 (0.46%) Unified Communications
8 14 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
9 12 (0.37%) VPN
10 10 (0.31%) Network Security
10 10 (0.31%) WAN
11 9 (0.28%) Softphone
11 9 (0.28%) WebEx
12 8 (0.25%) LAN
12 8 (0.25%) SSL
13 7 (0.22%) SAN
13 7 (0.22%) SSH
14 6 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 512 (15.87%) Power BI
2 384 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 375 (11.62%) Data Warehouse
4 257 (7.96%) Relational Database
5 229 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
6 224 (6.94%) Tableau
7 209 (6.48%) NoSQL
8 154 (4.77%) Data Lake
9 147 (4.56%) Oracle Database
10 135 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 124 (3.84%) MongoDB
12 112 (3.47%) Big Data
13 91 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 87 (2.70%) BigQuery
15 80 (2.48%) Metadata
16 74 (2.29%) MySQL
17 72 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
18 71 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 67 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
20 63 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 253 (7.84%) JIRA
2 251 (7.78%) Git
3 180 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 99 (3.07%) JUnit
5 90 (2.79%) GitLab
6 60 (1.86%) Maven
7 59 (1.83%) Mockito
8 40 (1.24%) Gradle
9 39 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 37 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 35 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 35 (1.08%) ERwin
12 34 (1.05%) Selenium
13 31 (0.96%) Liquibase
14 27 (0.84%) Visual Studio
15 22 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
15 22 (0.68%) Postman
16 19 (0.59%) Toad
17 17 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
18 14 (0.43%) JMeter
General
1 1,023 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 983 (30.46%) Finance
3 620 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 431 (13.36%) Banking
5 245 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 173 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 168 (5.21%) Front Office
8 111 (3.44%) Marketing
9 76 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 64 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 62 (1.92%) Retail
12 58 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 51 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 51 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 46 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
16 42 (1.30%) Back Office
17 35 (1.08%) General Ledger
18 34 (1.05%) Electronics
19 32 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 912 (28.26%) Developer
2 613 (19.00%) Analyst
3 441 (13.67%) Senior
4 378 (11.71%) Data Engineer
5 257 (7.96%) Data Analyst
6 222 (6.88%) Business Analyst
7 192 (5.95%) Architect
8 172 (5.33%) Lead
9 159 (4.93%) Java Developer
10 157 (4.87%) Senior Developer
11 148 (4.59%) Consultant
12 102 (3.16%) C# Developer
13 97 (3.01%) .NET Developer
14 92 (2.85%) Data Architect
15 86 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
16 85 (2.63%) Python Developer
17 82 (2.54%) SQL Developer
18 81 (2.51%) Software Engineer
19 72 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
19 72 (2.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (10.13%) .NET
2 210 (6.51%) Kafka
3 185 (5.73%) React
4 166 (5.14%) HTML
5 162 (5.02%) Spring
6 144 (4.46%) REST
7 142 (4.40%) CSS
8 140 (4.34%) Spring Boot
9 127 (3.94%) Web Services
10 120 (3.72%) RESTful
11 119 (3.69%) PySpark
12 117 (3.63%) SOAP
12 117 (3.63%) XML
13 108 (3.35%) .NET Framework
14 107 (3.32%) AngularJS
15 88 (2.73%) JSON
16 81 (2.51%) Node.js
17 69 (2.14%) .NET Core
18 58 (1.80%) Middleware
19 50 (1.55%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 127 (3.94%) Derivative
2 108 (3.35%) Data Structures
3 103 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 98 (3.04%) Fixed Income
5 83 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.51%) Hedge funds
6 81 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 80 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 69 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 64 (1.98%) Cloud Native
10 63 (1.95%) Equities
11 62 (1.92%) Algorithms
12 48 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 48 (1.49%) Market Risk
13 46 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 42 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
15 38 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
16 37 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
16 37 (1.15%) Reference Data
16 37 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 252 (7.81%) Linux
2 245 (7.59%) Windows
3 146 (4.52%) Unix
4 103 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.34%) VMS
10 8 (0.25%) Android
11 6 (0.19%) Solaris
12 5 (0.15%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.12%) AIX
13 4 (0.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.062%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.062%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.062%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 895 (27.73%) Agile
2 748 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
3 672 (20.82%) Business Intelligence
4 585 (18.13%) Data Modelling
5 576 (17.85%) Analytics
6 553 (17.14%) DevOps
7 525 (16.27%) ETL
8 512 (15.87%) CI/CD
9 400 (12.40%) Migration
10 357 (11.06%) Data Analysis
11 355 (11.00%) Visualisation
12 322 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
13 276 (8.55%) Microservices
14 266 (8.24%) Data Engineering
15 232 (7.19%) Data Governance
16 228 (7.07%) Scrum
17 220 (6.82%) Validation
18 219 (6.79%) Decision-Making
19 214 (6.63%) Software Engineering
20 210 (6.51%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,139 (35.30%) Python
2 513 (15.90%) Java
3 398 (12.33%) C#
4 309 (9.58%) JavaScript
5 292 (9.05%) PL/SQL
6 176 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 131 (4.06%) TypeScript
8 106 (3.28%) R
9 95 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 85 (2.63%) Bash
11 79 (2.45%) VBA
12 73 (2.26%) C++
13 70 (2.17%) Scala
14 69 (2.14%) Shell Script
15 58 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 53 (1.64%) Perl
17 42 (1.30%) VB
18 28 (0.87%) Bicep
18 28 (0.87%) Go
19 26 (0.81%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 456 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 357 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 302 (9.36%) Degree
4 98 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 47 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 27 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 22 (0.68%) MCSE
11 21 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 21 (0.65%) PhD
12 17 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.43%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.34%) VCP5
15 11 (0.34%) VCP6
16 10 (0.31%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (9.08%) Data Quality
2 170 (5.27%) QA
3 108 (3.35%) GDPR
4 57 (1.77%) SLA
5 49 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 39 (1.21%) MiFID
7 26 (0.81%) Basel III
8 25 (0.77%) EMIR
8 25 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.43%) Basel II
10 14 (0.43%) HL7
11 13 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.37%) IFRS
12 12 (0.37%) NIST
13 11 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.28%) IFRS 9
15 8 (0.25%) COBIT
16 7 (0.22%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 223 (6.91%) Docker
2 111 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 32 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.56%) NFS
6 17 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.53%) vSphere
7 15 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
9 11 (0.34%) Postfix
10 8 (0.25%) GridGain
11 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 6 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.15%) iptables
12 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.12%) Platform Symphony
13 4 (0.12%) XenApp
14 3 (0.093%) FreeRADIUS
14 3 (0.093%) KVM
14 3 (0.093%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 208 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 207 (6.41%) Terraform
3 62 (1.92%) Ansible
4 56 (1.74%) Grafana
5 36 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 15 (0.46%) SCCM
7 14 (0.43%) Control-M
7 14 (0.43%) SCOM
8 13 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 13 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 13 (0.40%) WSUS
9 12 (0.37%) Kibana
10 10 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 9 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.25%) Puppet
13 7 (0.22%) Data Guard
13 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.12%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 569 (17.63%) Oracle
2 527 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 231 (7.16%) Databricks
4 125 (3.87%) SAP
5 121 (3.75%) Google
6 65 (2.01%) Splunk
7 63 (1.95%) IBM
8 53 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 52 (1.61%) Cisco
10 51 (1.58%) Informatica
10 51 (1.58%) VMware
11 39 (1.21%) BISAM
11 39 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 39 (1.21%) Sybase
12 36 (1.12%) Citrix
13 33 (1.02%) Red Hat
14 31 (0.96%) Adobe
15 28 (0.87%) Charles River
16 26 (0.81%) OpenLink
17 24 (0.74%) Calypso