SQL Developer Contract Job Trends in London

SQL Developer
England > London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in London is £535, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 303 302
Rank change year-on-year -89 -1 +47
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 58 62 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.45% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.49% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 53
10th Percentile £287 £268 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +3.88%
75th Percentile £719 £744 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £775
England median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,760 12,713 15,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 92.97% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,229 8,604 10,759
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 203 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.95 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -15.66%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SQL Developer job vacancy trend in London

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in London over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in London

SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 2026, 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 SQL Developer in the job title.

1 54 (93.10%) SQL
2 26 (44.83%) C#
3 23 (39.66%) SQL Server
4 21 (36.21%) .NET
5 19 (32.76%) Azure
6 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
6 18 (31.03%) Python
6 18 (31.03%) T-SQL
7 16 (27.59%) Agile
8 15 (25.86%) AWS
9 14 (24.14%) ETL
9 14 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (22.41%) Analytics
11 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
12 11 (18.97%) Data Analysis
12 11 (18.97%) DevOps
12 11 (18.97%) Git
12 11 (18.97%) Microservices
12 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
12 11 (18.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (17.24%) Linux
14 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (15.52%) Code Quality
14 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
14 9 (15.52%) GitHub
14 9 (15.52%) Investment Management
14 9 (15.52%) Serverless
15 8 (13.79%) Amazon EC2

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 (3.45%) IIS
1 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Aladdin
2 4 (6.90%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (5.17%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (15.52%) GitHub
3 9 (15.52%) Serverless
4 8 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.07%) Amazon S3
5 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.90%) dbt
6 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.45%) GCP
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (39.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (12.07%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (12.07%) Power BI
4 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.45%) Redis
8 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (3.45%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.72%) QlikView
9 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.72%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.72%) SSDT
9 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Mocha
5 1 (1.72%) Mockito
5 1 (1.72%) MSTest
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.72%) tSQLt
General
1 38 (65.52%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Front Office
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Legal Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) .NET
2 8 (13.79%) HTML
2 8 (13.79%) RESTful
3 7 (12.07%) FastAPI
3 7 (12.07%) Flask
3 7 (12.07%) Pandas
3 7 (12.07%) Polars
4 6 (10.34%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.90%) CSS
7 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.45%) REST
8 2 (3.45%) Web Services
8 2 (3.45%) XML
9 1 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.72%) FpML
9 1 (1.72%) Spring
9 1 (1.72%) WinForms
9 1 (1.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Hedge funds
2 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.17%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.45%) Derivative
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Unix
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) CI/CD
2 16 (27.59%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) ETL
3 14 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.41%) Analytics
5 11 (18.97%) Data Analysis
5 11 (18.97%) DevOps
5 11 (18.97%) Microservices
6 10 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (15.52%) Code Quality
7 9 (15.52%) Data Modelling
7 9 (15.52%) Investment Management
8 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (12.07%) Benchmarking
9 7 (12.07%) Migration
9 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.34%) Data Integration
10 6 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (93.10%) SQL
2 26 (44.83%) C#
3 18 (31.03%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) T-SQL
4 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
5 7 (12.07%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.45%) Java
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) VB
8 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) SimCorp
3 3 (5.17%) Sybase
4 2 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) VMware