SQL Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 74 49 97
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 5.60% 5.33% 7.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.68% 22.79% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 33 61
10th Percentile £341 £360 £425
25th Percentile £400 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £636
90th Percentile £650 £682 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.19
25th Percentile £44.86 - £47.03
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £50.75
75th Percentile £52.58 - £53.41
90th Percentile - - £53.61
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year +42.40% -22.76% +170.27%

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 258 215 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.53% 23.39% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 140 175
10th Percentile £363 £360 £425
25th Percentile £447 £434 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £672 £676 £655
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -4.71% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 23
10th Percentile £40.49 £27.00 £46.75
25th Percentile £45.90 £52.22 £52.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £52.32 £70.63 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.40 £57.32
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.13% -4.47%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hampshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SQL

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 17 December 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
Farnborough +4 24 £500 +7.53% 4
Basingstoke -10 11 £650 +23.22% 18
Portsmouth - 9 £515 - 15
Southampton -7 3 £75 -80.33% 22
Fareham -10 3 £375 -16.67% 1
Havant - 3 £547 - 3
Fleet - 3 £465 -
Winchester - 2 £500 - 5
Gosport - 2 - - 1
Hayling Island - 1 £650 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.05%) Apache
2 3 (4.05%) Confluence
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (10.81%) OpenShift
4 7 (9.46%) AWS
5 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.76%) GitHub
6 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.41%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.05%) GCP
7 3 (4.05%) Serverless
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Fibre Channel
1 9 (12.16%) iSCSI
2 5 (6.76%) DNS
3 4 (5.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.70%) VSAN
5 1 (1.35%) Firewall
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) SNMP
5 1 (1.35%) SSH
5 1 (1.35%) SSL
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.35%) VoIP
5 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) Power BI
2 7 (9.46%) Tableau
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.35%) DB2
7 1 (1.35%) GIS
7 1 (1.35%) MySQL
7 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.11%) Bitbucket
2 6 (8.11%) JIRA
3 5 (6.76%) Git
4 4 (5.41%) GitLab
4 4 (5.41%) Selenium
5 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.05%) Gradle
5 3 (4.05%) Maven
5 3 (4.05%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.70%) Poetry
6 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.35%) JUnit
7 1 (1.35%) MLflow
7 1 (1.35%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.35%) Pylint
7 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Marketing
5 3 (4.05%) Automotive
5 3 (4.05%) Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Retail
6 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.70%) Military
6 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Developer
2 9 (12.16%) Analyst
2 9 (12.16%) Architect
2 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Architect
3 8 (10.81%) Administrator
3 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.81%) VMware Architect
4 6 (8.11%) IFS Systems Administrator
4 6 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.11%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (5.41%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.05%) Automation Tester
6 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Customer Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 3 (4.05%) Selenium Tester
6 3 (4.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) RESTful
2 10 (13.51%) React
3 7 (9.46%) Middleware
4 6 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 6 (8.11%) Spring
4 6 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.41%) REST
5 4 (5.41%) SOAP
5 4 (5.41%) Swagger
6 3 (4.05%) .NET
6 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.05%) JPA
6 3 (4.05%) Spring MVC
7 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.35%) Flask
8 1 (1.35%) JSON
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (1.35%) Pandas
8 1 (1.35%) PySpark
8 1 (1.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Private Cloud
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Replication
4 2 (2.70%) SCADA
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) AS400
5 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.35%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) State Machine
5 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.38%) Windows
2 14 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 11 (14.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (10.81%) Linux
5 5 (6.76%) Unix
6 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 19 (25.68%) Agile
3 16 (21.62%) Migration
3 16 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (14.86%) Containerisation
5 11 (14.86%) DevOps
5 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (12.16%) High Availability
7 8 (10.81%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (10.81%) Scrum
8 7 (9.46%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (9.46%) ERP
8 7 (9.46%) ITIL
8 7 (9.46%) Visualisation
9 6 (8.11%) Data Analysis
9 6 (8.11%) Performance Analysis
9 6 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (39.19%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) Java
2 17 (22.97%) PowerShell
3 14 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.86%) C#
5 7 (9.46%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.76%) Bash
7 4 (5.41%) R
7 4 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.05%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) C++
9 2 (2.70%) Perl
10 1 (1.35%) Bicep
10 1 (1.35%) Groovy
10 1 (1.35%) RPG
10 1 (1.35%) RPG IV
10 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 11 (14.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (13.51%) MCSE
6 5 (6.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (5.41%) OCP
7 4 (5.41%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (5.41%) VCP5
7 4 (5.41%) VCP6
8 3 (4.05%) CSPO
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.70%) Degree
10 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.35%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.35%) JSP 440
System Software
1 12 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (14.86%) NFS
3 9 (12.16%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (12.16%) vSphere
4 6 (8.11%) Docker
5 3 (4.05%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Ansible
2 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.16%) Terraform
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (4.05%) Proxmox
5 3 (4.05%) Rundeck
5 3 (4.05%) Salt
5 3 (4.05%) WSUS
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.35%) Argo
7 1 (1.35%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.35%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.35%) Istio
7 1 (1.35%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (1.35%) SCOM
7 1 (1.35%) systemd
7 1 (1.35%) vRealize
7 1 (1.35%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.97%) Oracle
3 16 (21.62%) VMware
4 11 (14.86%) Red Hat
5 9 (12.16%) NetApp
5 9 (12.16%) Splunk
5 9 (12.16%) Veeam
6 6 (8.11%) Databricks
6 6 (8.11%) IFS
7 2 (2.70%) Cognos
7 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.70%) Teradata
8 1 (1.35%) Acronis
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco
8 1 (1.35%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.35%) F5
8 1 (1.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.35%) McAfee
8 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.35%) Symantec