SQL Contracts in Surrey

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 8 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 44 70 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 15.83% 11.09% 13.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.57% 41.18% 48.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 77
10th Percentile £280 £308 £387
25th Percentile £347 £396 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £550 £500 £588
90th Percentile £597 £568 £635
South East median daily rate £500 £489 £525
% change year-on-year +2.30% -6.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.00
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £56.00
South East median hourly rate £47.00 £41.67 £45.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -7.41% +136.84%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 87 170 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 31.29% 26.94% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 133 163
10th Percentile £280 £213 £388
25th Percentile £406 £321 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £501 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £68.00 £30.25
25th Percentile - - £36.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.67% +57.89% +126.19%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £55.63
90th Percentile - £83.00 £60.63
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +23.32%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Redhill -1 8 £550 +27.54% 7
Staines +4 6 £335 -47.45% 7
Guildford +6 5 £514 - 71
Reigate +11 4 £475 -9.52% 6
Camberley - 3 £514 - 3
Woking - 3 £613 - 58
Leatherhead 0 2 £425 - 12
Chertsey +5 1 £300 -2.44% 2
Weybridge +5 1 £350 -30.00% 4
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) IIS
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) Adobe Analytics
3 3 (6.82%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) Google Ads
4 2 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (2.27%) Akamai
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Contentsquare
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
1 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Power BI
2 5 (11.36%) Tableau
3 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.82%) Looker
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.82%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
6 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
4 1 (2.27%) Maven
4 1 (2.27%) Toad
4 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 4 (9.09%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Korean Language
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Analyst
2 10 (22.73%) Pensions Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Systems Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Data Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) ABAP Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Consultant
6 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Consultant
7 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.82%) Marketing Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Senior ABAP Developer
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Digital Marketing Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) Node.js
1 4 (9.09%) Web Services
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) Java EE
3 2 (4.55%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) LAMP
3 2 (4.55%) React
3 2 (4.55%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.27%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.27%) Java SE
4 1 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.27%) Spring
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) Struts
4 1 (2.27%) WinForms
4 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
1 2 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Unix
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 4 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Data Analysis
2 10 (22.73%) Data Modelling
3 9 (20.45%) Analytics
4 8 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.64%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.36%) Data Mapping
6 5 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (11.36%) Validation
6 5 (11.36%) Workflow
7 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 4 (9.09%) Data Integration
7 4 (9.09%) Data Science
7 4 (9.09%) Data Transformation
7 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 4 (9.09%) DevOps
7 4 (9.09%) Machine Learning
7 4 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) ABAP
4 4 (9.09%) Perl
4 4 (9.09%) R
5 2 (4.55%) PHP
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) Go
6 1 (2.27%) Korn
6 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Degree
1 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.27%) OCP
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
4 1 (2.27%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.55%) GMP
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Adobe
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle
2 6 (13.64%) SAP
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 2 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) TikTok
5 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco
5 1 (2.27%) Citrix
5 1 (2.27%) Dell KACE
5 1 (2.27%) Meraki
5 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.27%) Sybase
5 1 (2.27%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (2.27%) VMware