SQL Contracts in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 2,283 3,645 5,292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.01% 13.82% 13.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.72% 34.22% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,778 2,684 4,017
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year - -0.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 39
10th Percentile £25.99 £33.45 £27.70
25th Percentile £41.00 £36.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +44.44% +6.76%
75th Percentile £53.13 £82.63 £59.69
90th Percentile £62.31 £90.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £49.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.69% +40.81% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,392 10,651 16,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.43% 40.37% 41.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,883 7,975 12,516
10th Percentile £380 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £829 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 83 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.40 £28.53
25th Percentile £40.79 £50.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 -2 320 £575 - 144
West London +11 37 £470 -10.48% 23
East London +2 36 £530 +32.50% 32
South London -3 29 £483 -3.50% 16
North London +4 5 £560 +6.67% 3
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 78 (3.42%) Apache
2 73 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 72 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.10%) IIS
6 20 (0.88%) Confluence
7 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
8 12 (0.53%) MTS
9 11 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.48%) SAS
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.31%) nginx
12 6 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.26%) Tornado
12 6 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.22%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.18%) CMS
14 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 115 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (1.93%) MS Visio
3 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.088%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.088%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 44 (1.93%) Endur
2 27 (1.18%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
5 14 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.53%) EuroRunner
6 12 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
7 11 (0.48%) Aligne
8 9 (0.39%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.31%) ION MarketView
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 7 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.22%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 639 (27.99%) Azure
2 464 (20.32%) AWS
3 252 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 140 (6.13%) Serverless
5 128 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
6 122 (5.34%) GCP
7 103 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
9 85 (3.72%) GitHub
10 65 (2.85%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 51 (2.23%) Snowflake
13 49 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 47 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 45 (1.97%) PaaS
16 41 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 40 (1.75%) Azure Functions
18 38 (1.66%) Azure Key Vault
18 38 (1.66%) PowerApps
19 31 (1.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.31%) Internet
2 20 (0.88%) Firewall
3 12 (0.53%) VPN
4 11 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
5 10 (0.44%) DNS
6 9 (0.39%) SSH
6 9 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.35%) WAN
8 7 (0.31%) DHCP
9 5 (0.22%) HTTP
9 5 (0.22%) LAN
9 5 (0.22%) MPLS
9 5 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.18%) BGP
10 4 (0.18%) Broadband
10 4 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.18%) FTP
10 4 (0.18%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 246 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
3 240 (10.51%) Power BI
4 207 (9.07%) NoSQL
5 149 (6.53%) Relational Database
6 143 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
7 114 (4.99%) Big Data
8 102 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 98 (4.29%) Tableau
10 95 (4.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 91 (3.99%) Oracle Database
12 87 (3.81%) Data Lake
13 69 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 64 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (2.63%) MongoDB
15 60 (2.63%) MySQL
16 44 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
17 39 (1.71%) BigQuery
18 38 (1.66%) Metadata
19 37 (1.62%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 159 (6.96%) Git
2 112 (4.91%) JIRA
3 70 (3.07%) TeamCity
4 67 (2.93%) Jenkins
5 35 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 27 (1.18%) GitLab
8 22 (0.96%) Selenium
8 22 (0.96%) SpecFlow
9 21 (0.92%) Maven
9 21 (0.92%) NUnit
10 17 (0.74%) JUnit
11 16 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 16 (0.70%) Postman
12 15 (0.66%) Moq
13 14 (0.61%) Subversion
14 13 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 12 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 775 (33.95%) Finance
2 501 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 365 (15.99%) Banking
4 322 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 267 (11.70%) Front Office
6 131 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 119 (5.21%) Investment Banking
8 88 (3.85%) Back Office
9 53 (2.32%) Marketing
10 52 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 48 (2.10%) Retail
12 42 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.40%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.88%) Local Government
16 18 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.79%) Publishing
17 17 (0.74%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.70%) Billing
19 14 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 750 (32.85%) Developer
2 368 (16.12%) Analyst
3 267 (11.70%) Data Engineer
4 252 (11.04%) Senior
5 163 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 139 (6.09%) C# Developer
7 124 (5.43%) Architect
8 116 (5.08%) Data Analyst
9 101 (4.42%) .NET Developer
10 90 (3.94%) Consultant
11 89 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
12 85 (3.72%) Lead
12 85 (3.72%) SQL Developer
13 84 (3.68%) Software Engineer
14 83 (3.64%) Python Developer
15 78 (3.42%) Senior Developer
16 73 (3.20%) Full Stack Developer
17 72 (3.15%) Financial Analyst
18 69 (3.02%) Java Developer
19 63 (2.76%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (15.55%) .NET
2 153 (6.70%) React
3 146 (6.40%) HTML
4 107 (4.69%) XML
5 104 (4.56%) Kafka
6 103 (4.51%) JSON
7 92 (4.03%) REST
8 85 (3.72%) PySpark
9 83 (3.64%) CSS
10 78 (3.42%) Web Services
11 76 (3.33%) .NET Core
11 76 (3.33%) .NET Framework
12 75 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 67 (2.93%) RESTful
14 59 (2.58%) ASP.NET
14 59 (2.58%) Node.js
14 59 (2.58%) Spring
15 54 (2.37%) WPF
16 52 (2.28%) SOAP
17 49 (2.15%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.48%) Derivative
2 114 (4.99%) Hedge funds
3 98 (4.29%) Fixed Income
4 94 (4.12%) Equities
5 85 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 57 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 54 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 45 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 43 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 42 (1.84%) Market Risk
12 41 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
13 39 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 39 (1.71%) Onboarding
14 38 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
15 37 (1.62%) Cloud Native
16 33 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
17 28 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
18 23 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 185 (8.10%) Windows
2 158 (6.92%) Linux
3 125 (5.48%) Unix
4 48 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.53%) VMS
9 11 (0.48%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.26%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.22%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.18%) OpenVMS
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.088%) Android
15 2 (0.088%) Solaris
15 2 (0.088%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.044%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (24.88%) Agile
2 370 (16.21%) Data Modelling
3 368 (16.12%) DevOps
4 350 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
5 308 (13.49%) Analytics
6 300 (13.14%) ETL
7 289 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
8 269 (11.78%) CI/CD
9 257 (11.26%) Software Engineering
10 211 (9.24%) Migration
11 202 (8.85%) Data Analysis
12 191 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
13 168 (7.36%) Computer Science
14 155 (6.79%) Visualisation
15 148 (6.48%) Data Engineering
15 148 (6.48%) Scrum
16 145 (6.35%) Test Automation
17 140 (6.13%) Asset Management
18 135 (5.91%) SDLC
19 134 (5.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 809 (35.44%) Python
2 499 (21.86%) C#
3 337 (14.76%) Java
4 247 (10.82%) JavaScript
5 171 (7.49%) PowerShell
6 150 (6.57%) PL/SQL
7 148 (6.48%) T-SQL
8 94 (4.12%) TypeScript
9 64 (2.80%) C++
10 52 (2.28%) Scala
10 52 (2.28%) VBA
11 42 (1.84%) R
12 40 (1.75%) Bash
12 40 (1.75%) Perl
13 38 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 31 (1.36%) Go
15 30 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 29 (1.27%) VB.NET
17 26 (1.14%) VB
18 21 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 275 (12.05%) Degree
2 195 (8.54%) Security Cleared
3 155 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 85 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 21 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (0.83%) PhD
9 11 (0.48%) CISSP
10 10 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.35%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.18%) ISEB
14 4 (0.18%) PMP
15 3 (0.13%) CIMA
15 3 (0.13%) CISM
15 3 (0.13%) MCITP
15 3 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 135 (5.91%) QA
3 35 (1.53%) MiFID
4 25 (1.10%) EMIR
5 23 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.01%) SLA
6 21 (0.92%) Dodd-Frank
7 19 (0.83%) GDPR
8 18 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.35%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.31%) PMO
12 6 (0.26%) WCAG
13 5 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.22%) GRC
13 5 (0.22%) IFRS
13 5 (0.22%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.18%) Basel III
14 4 (0.18%) IFRS 17
15 3 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 130 (5.69%) Docker
2 91 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.01%) IAG
3 23 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.92%) ACF2
4 21 (0.92%) RACF
5 17 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.13%) HDFS
8 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) vSphere
9 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.088%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.044%) KVM
10 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.044%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 140 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 90 (3.94%) Terraform
3 40 (1.75%) Ansible
4 27 (1.18%) Grafana
5 19 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 13 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
7 9 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.39%) SCCM
8 6 (0.26%) Data Guard
8 6 (0.26%) Podman
8 6 (0.26%) SCOM
9 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.18%) Argo
10 4 (0.18%) Control-M
10 4 (0.18%) Kibana
10 4 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 3 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 387 (16.95%) Oracle
2 332 (14.54%) Microsoft
3 160 (7.01%) Databricks
4 82 (3.59%) SAP
5 67 (2.93%) Google
6 57 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.58%) Citrix
8 36 (1.58%) Sybase
9 34 (1.49%) Bloomberg
10 33 (1.45%) IBM
11 31 (1.36%) Informatica
12 30 (1.31%) Splunk
13 26 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.14%) VMware
14 22 (0.96%) OpenLink
15 21 (0.92%) NEC
16 19 (0.83%) CyberArk
16 19 (0.83%) Murex
17 17 (0.74%) Palantir