SQL Contract Job Trends in Southwark

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > Southwark

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southwark requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southwark 10.53% 14.29% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £463 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £388 -
90th Percentile £610 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £45.79 £45.00
% change year-on-year +14.64% +1.74% +38.46%

All Programming Languages
Southwark

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 Southwark.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southwark 26.32% 21.43% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £525 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £501
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -25.07% -6.88%
75th Percentile £625 £388 £526
90th Percentile £813 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £87.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £51.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +14.31% -32.08%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Southwark

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Daily Rate Trend in Southwark

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southwark citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Southwark

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Southwark over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Southwark

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Hourly Rate Trend in Southwark

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southwark citing SQL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft