SQL Contracts in Southampton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 23 4
Rank change year-on-year +10 -19 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 2 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 6.48% 1.18% 16.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.92% 6.45% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 17
10th Percentile £340 - £240
25th Percentile £350 - £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% +41.18% -7.61%
75th Percentile £369 - £475
90th Percentile - - £510
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £538 £456
% change year-on-year -6.98% +17.81% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £39.75
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -13.95%

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 31 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 24.07% 18.34% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 34
10th Percentile £356 £300 £274
25th Percentile £367 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - +0.56%
75th Percentile £497 £569 £625
90th Percentile £573 £610 £671
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £66.50 £36.75
25th Percentile - £68.75 £37.88
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year - +88.68% +2.58%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £41.63
90th Percentile - £79.50 £42.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
% change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Southampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Southampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) TestRail
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) A/B Testing
2 3 (42.86%) CRM
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Marketing
2 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Single Customer View
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Alteryx