SQL Contract Job Trends in South London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 30 15
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 40 8 31
As % of all contract jobs in South London 19.32% 3.49% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.83% 12.12% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 23
10th Percentile - £425 £231
25th Percentile £413 £444 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £506
90th Percentile £605 £669 £588
London median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -4.17%

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 103 66 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 49.76% 28.82% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 49 76
10th Percentile £413 £423 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +1.36% -
75th Percentile £552 £769 £638
90th Percentile £645 £938 £675
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile £54.55 - £38.95
25th Percentile £58.15 - £40.82
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £46.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.23%
75th Percentile £66.50 - £61.30
90th Percentile £66.98 - £68.80
London median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SQL job vacancy trend in South London

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South London

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

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

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 22 December 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 +16 19 £500 +5.26% 4
Bromley +10 16 £425 -27.66% 8
Merton - 1 £225 - 2
SQL
London

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (30.00%) Confluence
2 11 (27.50%) nginx
3 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (15.00%) Mattermost
4 6 (15.00%) Skype for Business
5 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (2.50%) Apache
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (2.50%) IIS
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (25.00%) Route 53
4 10 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (20.00%) OneDrive
6 7 (17.50%) GitHub
7 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (15.00%) Serverless
8 5 (12.50%) Azure AKS
8 5 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 5 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 5 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.00%) DNS
1 10 (25.00%) Firewall
1 10 (25.00%) FTP
1 10 (25.00%) HTTP
1 10 (25.00%) IMAP
1 10 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (25.00%) SMTP
1 10 (25.00%) SSH
2 6 (15.00%) Skype
2 6 (15.00%) Unified Communications
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) DataStage
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.00%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) JIRA
3 10 (25.00%) Vagrant
4 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Finance
3 13 (32.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Analyst
1 14 (35.00%) Support Analyst
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) Operational Support Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) Operations Support Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Support
5 6 (15.00%) Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Messaging Analyst
5 6 (15.00%) Messaging Support
5 6 (15.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) LDAP
2 5 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (12.50%) Node.js
2 5 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 5 (12.50%) React
2 5 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.50%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.50%) pytest
4 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 10 (25.00%) VMS
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 16 (40.00%) Change Management
4 14 (35.00%) ITIL
5 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 10 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 10 (25.00%) Patch Management
6 10 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) AI
7 8 (20.00%) Information Security
7 8 (20.00%) ITSM
7 8 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 7 (17.50%) Migration
8 7 (17.50%) Service Delivery
9 6 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (25.00%) Groovy
4 5 (12.50%) Bicep
4 5 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) AWS Certification
3 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 10 (25.00%) Degree
4 8 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (47.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (42.50%) Docker
3 10 (25.00%) DFS Replication
3 10 (25.00%) Dovecot
3 10 (25.00%) Postfix
3 10 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) Terraform
2 14 (35.00%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (35.00%) SCOM
3 11 (27.50%) Grafana
4 10 (25.00%) Nessus
4 10 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (25.00%) Proxmox
5 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.50%) Ambari
6 1 (2.50%) Puppet
6 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.00%) Splunk
3 10 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 10 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (20.00%) Remedy
5 5 (12.50%) Databricks
5 5 (12.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.50%) Blue Prism
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle