SQL Contracts in South London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 22 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 11.89% 11.98% 12.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.51% 31.18% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 35
10th Percentile £459 £396 £418
25th Percentile £475 £437 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -8.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £522 £713
90th Percentile £739 £590 £950
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.04%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 93 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 44.86% 38.43% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 64 123
10th Percentile £425 £367 £453
25th Percentile £463 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £738 £554 £713
90th Percentile £938 £600 £900
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Croydon +1 13 £495 +3.39% 7
Bromley -5 7 £675 +28.57% 6
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - - 5
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (9.09%) MQSeries
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) JBoss
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.55%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon MSK
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
3 3 (13.64%) Parquet
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Tableau
5 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) DB2
5 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.55%) IMS/DB
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) Gradle
2 5 (22.73%) JUnit
2 5 (22.73%) Liquibase
2 5 (22.73%) Mockito
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (27.27%) Electronics
3 6 (27.27%) Manufacturing
3 6 (27.27%) Marketing
3 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (18.18%) Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Front Office
7 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
7 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
8 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Java Swing Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Control Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Kafka
2 5 (22.73%) OpenAPI
2 5 (22.73%) React
2 5 (22.73%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 5 (22.73%) Swagger
3 4 (18.18%) Middleware
3 4 (18.18%) XML
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Avro
4 3 (13.64%) JSON
4 3 (13.64%) Swing
5 2 (9.09%) Rendezvous
6 1 (4.55%) EJB
6 1 (4.55%) J2EE
6 1 (4.55%) JDBC
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
6 1 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (4.55%) XSLT
6 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
1 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.55%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Microservices
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 6 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
4 6 (27.27%) Programme Management
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (22.73%) TDD
6 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 4 (18.18%) ETL
6 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) Lua
5 2 (9.09%) PHP
5 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) REXX
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
6 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Functional Safety
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (13.64%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Sybase
3 2 (9.09%) TIBCO
4 1 (4.55%) Apple
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Siemens
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk