SQL Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 30.77% - 32.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 77.42% - 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 12
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.43%
75th Percentile £614 - £605
90th Percentile £638 - £649
West London median daily rate £520 £500 £470
% change year-on-year +4.00% +6.38% -12.15%

All Programming Languages
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 31 0 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 39.74% - 45.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 0 17
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.65%
75th Percentile £560 - £625
90th Percentile £638 - £643
West London median daily rate £560 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +17.89% - -17.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

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Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Richmond upon Thames

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Richmond upon Thames over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Richmond upon Thames

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Hourly Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing SQL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 6 (25.00%) Apache
1 6 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Collibra
3 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Metadata
2 9 (37.50%) Delta Lake
2 9 (37.50%) Parquet
3 7 (29.17%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (29.17%) Data Lake
3 7 (29.17%) Mixpanel
3 7 (29.17%) Power BI
4 6 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (25.00%) OLAP
4 6 (25.00%) OLTP
5 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Lead
2 10 (41.67%) Product Owner
2 10 (41.67%) Technical Product Owner
3 7 (29.17%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 6 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
5 5 (20.83%) Technical Leader
6 4 (16.67%) Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Applications Support
7 3 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) ITIL Service Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Operational Support Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Operations Support Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Product Lead
7 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Analyst
7 3 (12.50%) Salesforce Support
7 3 (12.50%) Service Analyst
8 2 (8.33%) Lead Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Great Expectations
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Product Ownership
2 9 (37.50%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
3 7 (29.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 19 (79.17%) Data Modelling
3 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 15 (62.50%) DevOps
4 15 (62.50%) ETL
4 15 (62.50%) Observability
5 13 (54.17%) Roadmaps
6 11 (45.83%) User Stories
7 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (37.50%) Agile
8 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (37.50%) Data Engineering
8 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (37.50%) Metadata Management
8 9 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (33.33%) Analytics
10 7 (29.17%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 7 (29.17%) Epics
10 7 (29.17%) LLM
10 7 (29.17%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (79.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (25.00%) GDPR
3 3 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Databricks
1 7 (29.17%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow