SQL Developer Contract Job Trends in London

SQL Developer
England > London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 298 279
Rank change year-on-year -39 -19 +28
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 51 53 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.39% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.42% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 85
10th Percentile £399 £311 £400
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £644 £725
90th Percentile £668 £688 £838
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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 13,893 12,599 17,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.62% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 8,064 12,487
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £776
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 138 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.68 £19.01
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.88 £48.70
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.35 £65.53
England median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%

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 February 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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. 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
Central London -12 4 £490 -14.78% 1
SQL Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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 50 (98.04%) SQL
2 21 (41.18%) C#
3 19 (37.25%) Azure
3 19 (37.25%) Python
4 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
5 15 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (27.45%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (23.53%) .NET
7 12 (23.53%) Agile
8 11 (21.57%) T-SQL
9 10 (19.61%) DevOps
9 10 (19.61%) ETL
9 10 (19.61%) Front End Development
9 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
9 10 (19.61%) Migration
10 9 (17.65%) GitHub
11 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
11 8 (15.69%) Java
12 7 (13.73%) Data Governance
12 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (13.73%) Kafka
12 7 (13.73%) Oracle
12 7 (13.73%) PL/SQL
12 7 (13.73%) Power BI
12 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
12 7 (13.73%) SDLC
12 7 (13.73%) Spring
13 6 (11.76%) CI/CD

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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) GitHub
3 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (13.73%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.80%) AWS
6 4 (7.84%) Collibra
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.92%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.92%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.92%) Serverless
8 2 (3.92%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.96%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.96%) Dagster
9 1 (1.96%) Datadog
9 1 (1.96%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (13.73%) Power BI
3 6 (11.76%) DB2
3 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.80%) Metadata
4 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.88%) OLAP
6 3 (5.88%) Tableau
7 2 (3.92%) OLAP Cube
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.92%) Power Query
7 2 (3.92%) PowerPivot
7 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) JUnit
2 5 (9.80%) Git
2 5 (9.80%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 2 (3.92%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.96%) ERwin
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (41.18%) Finance
2 17 (33.33%) Banking
3 12 (23.53%) Investment Banking
4 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.96%) Law
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) Kafka
2 7 (13.73%) Spring
3 6 (11.76%) JMS
4 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.92%) Middleware
5 2 (3.92%) NHibernate
5 2 (3.92%) Playwright
5 2 (3.92%) REST
6 1 (1.96%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 6 (11.76%) Equities
2 5 (9.80%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (27.45%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (23.53%) Agile
4 10 (19.61%) DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) ETL
4 10 (19.61%) Front End Development
4 10 (19.61%) Migration
5 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
6 7 (13.73%) Data Governance
6 7 (13.73%) SDLC
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.76%) Database Tuning
7 6 (11.76%) Multithreading
7 6 (11.76%) Open Source
8 5 (9.80%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (9.80%) Regulatory Change
8 5 (9.80%) System Testing
8 5 (9.80%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) SQL
2 21 (41.18%) C#
3 19 (37.25%) Python
4 11 (21.57%) T-SQL
5 8 (15.69%) Java
6 7 (13.73%) PL/SQL
7 6 (11.76%) Shell Script
8 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.96%) Perl
10 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) Sybase
4 5 (9.80%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) Concur
5 2 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) Google