SQL Contracts in Kent

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 23 10
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 3.81% 2.97% 10.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.14% 31.58% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 16
10th Percentile £404 £508 £306
25th Percentile £466 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +73.33%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £749
90th Percentile £575 - £788
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £58.91 -
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7 19 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 6.67% 9.41% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 25
10th Percentile £413 - £328
25th Percentile £463 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £569 £650
90th Percentile £568 £575 £772
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £51.98 £46.94
25th Percentile - £53.82 £50.38
Median hourly rate - £58.91 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year - +4.75% +25.74%
75th Percentile - £63.98 £56.41
90th Percentile - £65.80 £56.45
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Kent

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Kent 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
Dartford +1 1 £500 -9.09% 46
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR