SQL Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 2 24
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 5.71% 1.41% 8.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 6.25% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 15
10th Percentile £452 - £478
25th Percentile £483 £594 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% +11.36% +21.55%
75th Percentile £548 £631 -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.19
25th Percentile - - £47.03
Median hourly rate - - £50.75
75th Percentile - - £53.41
90th Percentile - - £53.61
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £50.75
% change year-on-year - - +174.32%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 32 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 16.00% 22.54% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 38
10th Percentile £402 £382 £443
25th Percentile £418 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% +7.01%
75th Percentile £548 £519 £578
90th Percentile £600 £583 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 14
10th Percentile £48.50 £62.50 £51.25
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £67.81
90th Percentile £55.00 £74.13 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +21.74% -11.54%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Portsmouth

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (10.00%) GIS
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Parquet
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
1 1 (10.00%) Poetry
1 1 (10.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
1 6 (60.00%) IFS Systems Administrator
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Avro
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Flask
1 1 (10.00%) NumPy
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
1 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) ERP
2 6 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Cartography
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Dependency Management
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Groovy
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Argo
1 1 (10.00%) Istio
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IFS
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat