SQL Contract Job Trends in North London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in North London 3.45% 3.03% 7.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.67% 11.11% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £483 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £510 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.03
Median hourly rate - - £21.12
75th Percentile - - £22.20
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £41.62 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.39% +5.56% -24.69%

All Programming Languages
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 20.69% 27.27% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £489 £248 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £255 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% - -
75th Percentile £509 £270 -
90th Percentile £510 £293 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.03
Median hourly rate - - £21.12
75th Percentile - - £22.20
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year +9.50% -3.38% -10.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North London.

SQL job vacancy trend in North London

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in North London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing SQL

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Hourly Rate Trend in North London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing SQL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Iteration Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow