Senior SQL Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior SQL Developer
England > London

The median Senior SQL Developer daily rate in London is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 365 398
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 16 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.027% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.029% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £436 £508 £536
25th Percentile £463 £519 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -6.78% -5.00%
75th Percentile £601 £594 £725
90th Percentile £630 £613 £733
England median daily rate £470 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -14.55% -6.78% -1.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 13,345 13,995 17,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.49% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,835 9,037 12,468
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.03%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 153 211
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.87 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £28.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.47% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £55.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.92% -22.62% +41.17%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior SQL Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior SQL Developer job vacancy trend in London

Senior SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior SQL Developer job vacancies in London

Senior SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior SQL Developer in London

Senior SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior SQL Developer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior SQL Developer job vacancies in London

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Senior SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 14 (87.50%) Agile
3 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (75.00%) Kafka
4 12 (75.00%) Linux
4 12 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (75.00%) Python
5 11 (68.75%) Database Tuning
5 11 (68.75%) DB2
5 11 (68.75%) Java
5 11 (68.75%) JMS
5 11 (68.75%) JUnit
5 11 (68.75%) MongoDB
5 11 (68.75%) Multithreading
5 11 (68.75%) Open Source
5 11 (68.75%) Relational Database
5 11 (68.75%) SDLC
5 11 (68.75%) Shell Script
5 11 (68.75%) Spring
5 11 (68.75%) Sybase
6 4 (25.00%) C#
7 2 (12.50%) .NET
7 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (12.50%) Confluence
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
7 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (12.50%) GitHub
7 2 (12.50%) JIRA

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) DB2
1 11 (68.75%) MongoDB
1 11 (68.75%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) JUnit
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (87.50%) Finance
2 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (68.75%) Banking
3 11 (68.75%) Investment Banking
3 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) Kafka
2 11 (68.75%) JMS
2 11 (68.75%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 2 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Data Structures
1 11 (68.75%) Equities
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (68.75%) Database Tuning
4 11 (68.75%) Multithreading
4 11 (68.75%) Open Source
4 11 (68.75%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
6 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Front End Development
6 1 (6.25%) Kanban
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) SOLID
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 11 (68.75%) Java
3 11 (68.75%) Shell Script
4 4 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) C++
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Sybase
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft