SQL Contracts in the South East

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 351 578 826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.33% 9.91% 10.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.23% 35.61% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 416 558
10th Percentile £312 £308 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 26
10th Percentile £22.61 - -
25th Percentile £31.14 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £58.11 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.91% +50.23% -10.42%
75th Percentile £62.96 £61.88 £23.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £54.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £49.79 £35.25
% change year-on-year -14.63% +41.23% +35.58%

All Programming Languages
South East

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,201 1,623 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.64% 27.81% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 830 1,153 1,366
10th Percentile £325 £333 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 93 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.00 £65.51
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -4 188 £500 -1.96% 91
Berkshire -9 124 £500 - 42
Surrey -1 66 £433 -17.62% 38
Hampshire -29 53 £538 +14.67% 74
Buckinghamshire +8 51 £475 -7.32% 28
West Sussex -2 23 £363 +0.76% 11
Oxfordshire +5 13 £525 +31.25% 21
Kent -14 6 £550 -15.38% 24
Home Counties - 4 - -
East Sussex -8 2 £625 -3.85% 15
Middlesex +2 1 £425 -22.73% 5
Sussex - 1 £350 -
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 29 (8.26%) SAS
2 25 (7.12%) Confluence
3 16 (4.56%) Apache
3 16 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (3.99%) SharePoint
5 12 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Jadu
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.99%) SPSS
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Aareon QL
2 4 (1.14%) Adobe Campaign
2 4 (1.14%) FastStats
2 4 (1.14%) Unica
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.57%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (23.65%) Azure
2 64 (18.23%) Power Platform
3 51 (14.53%) AWS
4 30 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (4.56%) Serverless
7 12 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.42%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 11 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (3.13%) GitHub
9 9 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.28%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.28%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.99%) GCP
11 7 (1.99%) PaaS
11 7 (1.99%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.99%) BGP
2 13 (3.70%) VPN
3 11 (3.13%) DHCP
3 11 (3.13%) DNS
3 11 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
3 11 (3.13%) MPLS
3 11 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
4 8 (2.28%) Firewall
4 8 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (1.14%) SAN
8 3 (0.85%) FTP
8 3 (0.85%) HTTP
8 3 (0.85%) IOS XR
8 3 (0.85%) Network Security
8 3 (0.85%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.57%) NAS
9 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.52%) SQL Server
2 54 (15.38%) Power BI
3 46 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (10.83%) Oracle Database
5 34 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (7.12%) NoSQL
7 23 (6.55%) Tableau
8 21 (5.98%) Oracle Database 11g
9 18 (5.13%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.56%) Data Lake
11 15 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (4.27%) MongoDB
11 15 (4.27%) MySQL
12 12 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
13 11 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (2.28%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (2.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (1.99%) Big Data
16 5 (1.42%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 43 (12.25%) JIRA
2 17 (4.84%) Git
3 15 (4.27%) GitLab
4 13 (3.70%) TestRail
5 11 (3.13%) Robot Framework
6 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.99%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (1.14%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.85%) Postman
10 2 (0.57%) kappa
11 1 (0.28%) ERwin
11 1 (0.28%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.28%) MLflow
11 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 74 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (11.97%) Finance
4 27 (7.69%) Retail
5 25 (7.12%) Telecoms
6 18 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.85%) Marketing
7 10 (2.85%) Military
8 9 (2.56%) Billing
9 7 (1.99%) Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.71%) Legal
11 5 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Automotive
12 3 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (33.33%) Developer
2 61 (17.38%) Analyst
3 37 (10.54%) Data Analyst
4 25 (7.12%) Test Engineer
5 24 (6.84%) Senior
6 22 (6.27%) SQL Developer
7 18 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 15 (4.27%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 14 (3.99%) Lead
9 14 (3.99%) Network Engineer
10 13 (3.70%) Architect
11 12 (3.42%) Consultant
11 12 (3.42%) SQL Analyst
12 11 (3.13%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.13%) C Developer
12 11 (3.13%) DBA
13 10 (2.85%) SQL Data Analyst
14 9 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.56%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (2.56%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.83%) REST
2 23 (6.55%) SOAP
3 22 (6.27%) .NET
3 22 (6.27%) XML
4 15 (4.27%) JSON
4 15 (4.27%) RESTful
5 14 (3.99%) YANG
6 11 (3.13%) NETCONF
6 11 (3.13%) RESTCONF
7 8 (2.28%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.99%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.99%) D3.js
9 6 (1.71%) Spring
9 6 (1.71%) Web Services
10 5 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.14%) ADO
11 4 (1.14%) HTML
11 4 (1.14%) LAMP
11 4 (1.14%) OAuth
11 4 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.70%) PKI
3 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.71%) Digital Signage
4 6 (1.71%) Housing Association
4 6 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (1.71%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.42%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.42%) Smart Meter
6 4 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.14%) e-Health
6 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.14%) Replication
7 3 (0.85%) CCTV
7 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.38%) Windows
2 40 (11.40%) Linux
3 38 (10.83%) Unix
4 23 (6.55%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (3.13%) Windows 10
7 10 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (2.56%) Windows 7
9 8 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.71%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.57%) Android
12 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (24.50%) Agile
2 61 (17.38%) Analytics
3 59 (16.81%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (14.81%) DevOps
5 50 (14.25%) Migration
6 48 (13.68%) Data Modelling
7 42 (11.97%) Scrum
8 36 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (9.97%) Data Migration
10 33 (9.40%) Unit Testing
11 32 (9.12%) Software Testing
12 31 (8.83%) Workflow
13 30 (8.55%) ETL
14 29 (8.26%) Data Analysis
14 29 (8.26%) Software Engineering
15 28 (7.98%) Test Automation
16 27 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (7.41%) Regression Testing
18 25 (7.12%) CI/CD
19 22 (6.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (17.95%) Python
2 50 (14.25%) PL/SQL
3 36 (10.26%) C#
4 20 (5.70%) Java
5 18 (5.13%) T-SQL
6 14 (3.99%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.70%) C
8 12 (3.42%) C++
9 11 (3.13%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.85%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.56%) ProC
12 8 (2.28%) R
12 8 (2.28%) Scala
13 6 (1.71%) Bash
13 6 (1.71%) VB
13 6 (1.71%) VBA
14 5 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.14%) F#
15 4 (1.14%) PHP
15 4 (1.14%) X++
Qualifications
1 64 (18.23%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.96%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.69%) Degree
4 9 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.56%) MCSA
4 9 (2.56%) MCSE
4 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (1.99%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.57%) HNC
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.42%) QA
3 9 (2.56%) GDPR
4 7 (1.99%) SLA
5 4 (1.14%) IFRS
5 4 (1.14%) IFRS 9
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.57%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) GxP
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.70%) Docker
3 13 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.42%) vSphere
5 4 (1.14%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (3.99%) Terraform
2 8 (2.28%) Ansible
3 6 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.57%) Grafana
4 2 (0.57%) Graylog
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.57%) Nagios
4 2 (0.57%) PaperCut
4 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) SCCM
5 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.28%) vRealize
5 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (24.50%) Oracle
2 68 (19.37%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.27%) VMware
4 12 (3.42%) Databricks
5 11 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.85%) IFS
7 9 (2.56%) Informatica
8 8 (2.28%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.71%) Google
9 6 (1.71%) SAP
10 5 (1.42%) Aareon
10 5 (1.42%) Ab Initio
10 5 (1.42%) Cisco
10 5 (1.42%) Facebook
11 4 (1.14%) Adobe
11 4 (1.14%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.14%) Snapchat
12 3 (0.85%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.85%) Splunk
12 3 (0.85%) Veeam