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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 13 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SQL 6 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 4.48% 4.28% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.55% 22.86% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £303 £484 £291
25th Percentile £313 £494 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -35.84% +2.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £400 £638 £600
90th Percentile £513 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.91 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £58.91 £38.66
% change year-on-year -6.63% +52.37% +134.30%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 35 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 8.21% 18.72% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 17
10th Percentile £313 £325 £230
25th Percentile £338 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -20.00% +10.53%
75th Percentile £430 £524 £600
90th Percentile £488 £638 £615
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - £48.25 £53.87
25th Percentile - £50.88 £54.06
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% -
75th Percentile - £58.66 £58.13
90th Percentile - £64.59 £60.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £68.20 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% +2.80%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Kent over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Kent

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing SQL

SQL
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £313 - 7
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Blazor Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Domino Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Blazor
1 2 (33.33%) DAO
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Vue
2 1 (16.67%) XPages
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) LotusScript
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) OneTrust
2 1 (16.67%) Blue Prism
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft