SQL Contracts in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,647 6,134 8,828
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.81% 12.16% 12.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.40% 34.45% 33.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,688 4,499 6,395
10th Percentile £355 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +10.26%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 83 141
10th Percentile £23.50 £20.70 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.37 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +36.54%
75th Percentile £54.13 £70.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.24 £82.90 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +31.48%

All Programming Languages
England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,920 17,806 26,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.36% 35.29% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,931 13,003 19,300
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £652 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 430 457
10th Percentile £35.52 £26.24 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.43
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 2024. 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 2,308 £575 - 1,319
North of England -3 381 £475 -2.56% 394
South East -10 351 £475 -6.86% 325
North West -6 232 £475 - 232
Midlands -6 222 £425 -10.53% 346
South West -13 166 £538 +7.50% 191
West Midlands -8 148 £425 -19.05% 192
Yorkshire -8 114 £463 -7.50% 118
East of England -21 84 £450 +5.88% 173
East Midlands -3 72 £400 - 154
North East +23 35 £475 -5.00% 49
South Coast - 3 £500 -
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
1 115 (3.15%) Apache
2 100 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 96 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 64 (1.75%) Confluence
6 57 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 51 (1.40%) SAS
8 39 (1.07%) IIS
9 14 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
10 13 (0.36%) CMS
10 13 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
11 12 (0.33%) MTS
12 11 (0.30%) nginx
12 11 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.16%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 174 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 113 (3.10%) Chatbot
3 50 (1.37%) MS Visio
4 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.27%) SPSS
8 8 (0.22%) CATIA
9 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.055%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.055%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 42 (1.15%) Endur
2 22 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 20 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.55%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 15 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 12 (0.33%) EuroRunner
7 12 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 11 (0.30%) Aligne
8 11 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
9 10 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
10 9 (0.25%) Loan IQ
10 9 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
11 8 (0.22%) Aareon QL
11 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 962 (26.38%) Azure
2 636 (17.44%) AWS
3 516 (14.15%) Power Platform
4 220 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
5 206 (5.65%) Serverless
6 192 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 182 (4.99%) GCP
8 121 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (3.29%) GitHub
10 104 (2.85%) Snowflake
11 98 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 97 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 72 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 68 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
15 67 (1.84%) Azure Functions
15 67 (1.84%) PaaS
16 65 (1.78%) Power Automate
17 64 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 62 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 62 (1.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (1.54%) Firewall
2 44 (1.21%) DNS
3 34 (0.93%) DHCP
4 31 (0.85%) Internet
4 31 (0.85%) VPN
5 20 (0.55%) SAN
5 20 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 18 (0.49%) BGP
7 17 (0.47%) Network Security
7 17 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (0.44%) HTTP
8 16 (0.44%) MPLS
8 16 (0.44%) WAN
9 12 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.33%) FTP
9 12 (0.33%) LAN
9 12 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
11 10 (0.27%) AMQP
11 10 (0.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 656 (17.99%) SQL Server
2 485 (13.30%) Power BI
3 391 (10.72%) Data Warehouse
4 274 (7.51%) NoSQL
5 237 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
6 226 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 190 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 190 (5.21%) Tableau
8 170 (4.66%) Data Lake
9 157 (4.30%) Big Data
10 156 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 155 (4.25%) Oracle Database
12 139 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 106 (2.91%) MySQL
14 88 (2.41%) MongoDB
15 86 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
16 69 (1.89%) BigQuery
17 65 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.75%) Metadata
18 64 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 243 (6.66%) Git
2 218 (5.98%) JIRA
3 107 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 79 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 59 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 48 (1.32%) GitLab
7 39 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 36 (0.99%) Postman
9 33 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.88%) Maven
11 27 (0.74%) NUnit
11 27 (0.74%) Selenium
12 24 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 23 (0.63%) SpecFlow
14 22 (0.60%) JUnit
15 19 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 18 (0.49%) TestRail
17 17 (0.47%) Mockito
18 16 (0.44%) Moq
General
1 911 (24.98%) Finance
2 755 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 490 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 397 (10.89%) Banking
5 264 (7.24%) Front Office
6 207 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 123 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 102 (2.80%) Marketing
8 102 (2.80%) Retail
9 93 (2.55%) Back Office
10 73 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 65 (1.78%) Telecoms
12 62 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 61 (1.67%) Manufacturing
14 36 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 34 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
16 33 (0.90%) Local Government
17 31 (0.85%) Billing
18 29 (0.80%) Legal
19 28 (0.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,226 (33.62%) Developer
2 548 (15.03%) Analyst
3 418 (11.46%) Data Engineer
4 350 (9.60%) Senior
5 218 (5.98%) Data Analyst
6 204 (5.59%) Architect
7 183 (5.02%) Business Analyst
8 171 (4.69%) Software Developer
9 166 (4.55%) C# Developer
10 156 (4.28%) SQL Developer
11 140 (3.84%) Lead
12 139 (3.81%) .NET Developer
13 138 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
14 123 (3.37%) Consultant
15 111 (3.04%) DBA
16 109 (2.99%) Senior Developer
17 100 (2.74%) Python Developer
18 94 (2.58%) Software Engineer
19 91 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
20 87 (2.39%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (12.67%) .NET
2 285 (7.81%) HTML
3 176 (4.83%) React
4 156 (4.28%) REST
4 156 (4.28%) XML
5 142 (3.89%) JSON
6 126 (3.45%) Kafka
7 117 (3.21%) CSS
8 111 (3.04%) RESTful
9 109 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 101 (2.77%) .NET Core
11 100 (2.74%) PySpark
12 99 (2.71%) .NET Framework
12 99 (2.71%) Web Services
13 92 (2.52%) SOAP
14 85 (2.33%) Node.js
15 78 (2.14%) Spring
16 73 (2.00%) ASP.NET
17 61 (1.67%) Pandas
18 56 (1.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 144 (3.95%) Derivative
2 116 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 110 (3.02%) Hedge funds
4 92 (2.52%) Fixed Income
5 90 (2.47%) Equities
6 86 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 61 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 56 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 55 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 52 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 50 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
13 50 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
14 48 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
15 43 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 43 (1.18%) Market Risk
16 40 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
17 36 (0.99%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 316 (8.66%) Windows
2 229 (6.28%) Linux
3 186 (5.10%) Unix
4 127 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 30 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (0.80%) VMS
9 27 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 26 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 15 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.33%) CentOS
13 11 (0.30%) Solaris
14 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.19%) AIX
16 6 (0.16%) Android
17 5 (0.14%) OpenVMS
18 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (23.11%) Agile
2 644 (17.66%) Business Intelligence
3 572 (15.68%) Data Modelling
4 551 (15.11%) DevOps
5 489 (13.41%) ETL
6 487 (13.35%) Analytics
7 454 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
8 419 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 384 (10.53%) Migration
10 368 (10.09%) CI/CD
11 301 (8.25%) Data Analysis
12 271 (7.43%) Visualisation
13 258 (7.07%) Data Pipeline
14 251 (6.88%) Scrum
15 221 (6.06%) Data Engineering
16 220 (6.03%) Computer Science
17 216 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence
18 208 (5.70%) Test Automation
19 187 (5.13%) Microservices
20 186 (5.10%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (32.08%) Python
2 724 (19.85%) C#
3 436 (11.96%) Java
4 431 (11.82%) JavaScript
5 269 (7.38%) PL/SQL
6 240 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 208 (5.70%) T-SQL
8 125 (3.43%) TypeScript
9 80 (2.19%) C++
10 74 (2.03%) Scala
11 71 (1.95%) R
12 67 (1.84%) Bash
13 66 (1.81%) VBA
14 64 (1.75%) Shell Script
15 55 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 48 (1.32%) Go
17 44 (1.21%) C
18 42 (1.15%) VB.NET
19 41 (1.12%) VB
20 38 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 468 (12.83%) Degree
2 385 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 298 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 106 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 75 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 49 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 40 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 29 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.63%) MCSE
11 18 (0.49%) PhD
12 17 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (0.44%) MCSA
14 13 (0.36%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.36%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.30%) CISSP
16 8 (0.22%) ISEB
16 8 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
17 6 (0.16%) PMP
17 6 (0.16%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 201 (5.51%) QA
3 37 (1.01%) SLA
4 35 (0.96%) MiFID
5 34 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 32 (0.88%) GDPR
7 24 (0.66%) EMIR
8 20 (0.55%) Dodd-Frank
9 17 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.41%) HL7
11 11 (0.30%) IFRS
12 10 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.25%) PMO
14 7 (0.19%) WCAG
15 6 (0.16%) Basel III
15 6 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.16%) GxP
15 6 (0.16%) IFRS 9
15 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 5 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 207 (5.68%) Docker
2 184 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.74%) IAG
6 25 (0.69%) ACF2
6 25 (0.69%) RACF
7 16 (0.44%) vSphere
8 11 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.19%) HDFS
10 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
11 6 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.055%) XenApp
15 2 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 192 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 153 (4.20%) Terraform
3 74 (2.03%) Ansible
4 49 (1.34%) Grafana
5 26 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 25 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.63%) SCCM
8 22 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
9 14 (0.38%) SCOM
10 13 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
11 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.27%) BladeLogic
12 10 (0.27%) Data Guard
13 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.22%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.19%) WSUS
16 6 (0.16%) HP Fortify
16 6 (0.16%) Kibana
16 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 579 (15.88%) Oracle
2 571 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 207 (5.68%) Databricks
4 127 (3.48%) SAP
5 110 (3.02%) PayPal
6 106 (2.91%) Google
7 83 (2.28%) VMware
8 77 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 67 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.70%) Informatica
11 53 (1.45%) Splunk
12 42 (1.15%) Citrix
12 42 (1.15%) IBM
13 37 (1.01%) Sybase
14 32 (0.88%) Bloomberg
15 31 (0.85%) Cisco
16 28 (0.77%) Dynatrace
17 25 (0.69%) NEC
18 23 (0.63%) Adobe
18 23 (0.63%) Red Hat