SQL Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 15.79% 10.78% 7.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.92% 64.71% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 9
10th Percentile £313 £405 -
25th Percentile £368 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -19.13% +21.05%
75th Percentile £615 £501 £655
90th Percentile £621 £559 £682
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 65 17 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 42.76% 16.67% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 11 22
10th Percentile £313 £425 £513
25th Percentile £361 £439 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.51% -11.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £645
90th Percentile £619 £625 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.22%
75th Percentile - - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £58.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

SQL job vacancy trend in Farnborough

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Farnborough over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Farnborough

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (29.17%) OpenShift
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau Desktop
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 4 (16.67%) Selenium
4 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (12.50%) Git
4 3 (12.50%) Gradle
4 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (12.50%) Maven
4 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Automotive
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Selenium Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Tester
6 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (4.17%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
7 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Tableau Developer
7 1 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) RESTful
2 10 (41.67%) React
3 7 (29.17%) Middleware
4 6 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (25.00%) Spring
4 6 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (16.67%) REST
5 4 (16.67%) Swagger
6 3 (12.50%) .NET
6 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
6 3 (12.50%) JPA
6 3 (12.50%) SOAP
6 3 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 8 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 7 (29.17%) Migration
6 7 (29.17%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) High Availability
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Microservices
8 5 (20.83%) Open Source
9 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Scrum
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 3 (12.50%) API Development
10 3 (12.50%) Observability
10 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Java
2 14 (58.33%) Python
3 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
4 10 (41.67%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 3 (12.50%) Go
6 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Ansible
2 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (25.00%) Terraform
4 3 (12.50%) Proxmox
4 3 (12.50%) Rundeck
4 3 (12.50%) Salt
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) Teradata