SQL Contract Job Trends in Southampton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 14 19
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.78% 9.59% 12.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% 35.00% 52.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 18
10th Percentile £71 £349 £501
25th Percentile £71 £356 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £75 £381 £633
Median % change year-on-year -80.33% -39.72% +40.56%
75th Percentile £295 £660 £650
90th Percentile £426 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 19 40 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 11.24% 27.40% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 34
10th Percentile £193 £350 £463
25th Percentile £491 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £403 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.95% -26.82% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £647
90th Percentile £657 £654 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £518 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Southampton

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Southampton over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Southampton

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) CRM Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) CRM Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (33.33%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce