SQL Contracts in Hampshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 44 18
Rank change year-on-year +27 -26 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 64 52 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 8.58% 3.23% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.48% 15.16% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 72
10th Percentile £387 £310 £267
25th Percentile £425 £460 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £456
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +17.81% -8.75%
75th Percentile £550 £641 £600
90th Percentile £688 £716 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £55.63
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Hampshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Hampshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hampshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Hampshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +41 16 £650 +52.94% 79
Farnborough +9 16 £425 -34.74% 10
Southampton +10 7 £363 -39.58% 90
Havant - 6 £550 - 1
Portsmouth +6 5 £550 +2.33% 75
Winchester +2 4 £498 -9.34% 1
Fareham -2 1 £455 -17.27% 3
Hook - 1 £500 - 1
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 20 (31.25%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Anypoint
2 4 (6.25%) Mule
2 4 (6.25%) Mule ESB
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.13%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) AWS
2 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.81%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.25%) GCP
4 4 (6.25%) OCI
5 3 (4.69%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (6.25%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (10.94%) Power BI
2 5 (7.81%) Tableau
3 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.69%) GIS
5 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (3.13%) Metadata
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.56%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (31.25%) JIRA
2 16 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.69%) MSI
3 3 (4.69%) TestRail
General
1 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 5 (7.81%) Marketing
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Military
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Developer
2 16 (25.00%) Delphi Developer
3 10 (15.63%) Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Analyst
5 6 (9.38%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) VMware Architect
7 3 (4.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Power BI Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Solutions Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) HR Specialist
8 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.06%) SOAP
2 7 (10.94%) Web Services
3 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) JSON
3 4 (6.25%) RAML
3 4 (6.25%) REST
3 4 (6.25%) XML
4 3 (4.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Operational Technology
1 3 (4.69%) SCADA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (1.56%) Clustering
3 1 (1.56%) FMCG
3 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (48.44%) Windows
2 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.13%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Solaris
4 2 (3.13%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.56%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) Functional Testing
2 17 (26.56%) Root Cause Analysis
3 11 (17.19%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (15.63%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.94%) Data Transformation
6 7 (10.94%) SOA
6 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
7 5 (7.81%) Change Management
7 5 (7.81%) Containerisation
7 5 (7.81%) Operational Stability
7 5 (7.81%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.25%) API Management
8 4 (6.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (6.25%) Concurrent Programming
8 4 (6.25%) Edge Virtualization
8 4 (6.25%) Performance Analysis
8 4 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) PL/SQL
2 20 (31.25%) C#
3 16 (25.00%) Delphi
4 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.25%) DataWeave
5 4 (6.25%) Java
5 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.25%) Python
6 3 (4.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) MCSE
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.25%) VCP5
4 4 (6.25%) VCP6
4 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.69%) Degree
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) GDPR
2 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) NFS
2 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.25%) vSphere
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) SCCM
2 4 (6.25%) CloudHub
2 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) SCOM
3 3 (4.69%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.69%) WMI
4 2 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Microsoft
1 27 (42.19%) Oracle
2 6 (9.38%) VMware
3 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 4 (6.25%) NetApp
3 4 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 4 (6.25%) Splunk
3 4 (6.25%) Veeam
4 3 (4.69%) Google
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) IFS
5 2 (3.13%) McAfee
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco
6 1 (1.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica