SQL Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 325 332
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 -30
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 38 74 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.36% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.38% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 62 105
10th Percentile £263 £281 £352
25th Percentile £268 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.06% +11.17%
75th Percentile £475 £537 £563
90th Percentile £503 £620 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +7.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland +27 19 £368 -31.63% 2
North of England +13 9 £275 -38.89% 10
Midlands +7 5 £425 -12.82% 8
Yorkshire +6 5 £275 -38.89% 3
North West +13 4 £325 -25.71% 5
East Midlands +10 4 £425 +9.68%
South West +46 2 £475 +55.74% 6
East of England +28 1 £438 +45.83% 2
South East +25 1 £500 -2.44% 5
West Midlands -1 1 - - 7
Wales -8 1 - -
SQL Developer
UK

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 38 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Java
3 17 (44.74%) Linux
4 16 (42.11%) Spring
5 13 (34.21%) Agile
6 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
7 11 (28.95%) Finance
7 11 (28.95%) Data Structures
8 9 (23.68%) Relational Database
8 9 (23.68%) JUnit
8 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (21.05%) SDLC
9 8 (21.05%) Python
9 8 (21.05%) ETL
9 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (21.05%) MongoDB
10 7 (18.42%) Kafka
10 7 (18.42%) Database Tuning
10 7 (18.42%) Open Source
10 7 (18.42%) Multithreading
10 7 (18.42%) JMS
10 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
10 7 (18.42%) Sybase
10 7 (18.42%) DB2
10 7 (18.42%) Front Office
10 7 (18.42%) Equities
10 7 (18.42%) Banking
10 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (2.63%) AWS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Relational Database
2 8 (21.05%) MongoDB
3 7 (18.42%) DB2
4 4 (10.53%) Power BI
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.26%) MySQL
6 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JUnit
2 4 (10.53%) JIRA
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.26%) Git
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (2.63%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.63%) Maven
5 1 (2.63%) Mockito
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.63%) PVCS
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 7 (18.42%) Front Office
4 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Spring
2 7 (18.42%) JMS
2 7 (18.42%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.63%) CSS
4 1 (2.63%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.63%) HTML
4 1 (2.63%) Java EE
4 1 (2.63%) Jest
4 1 (2.63%) JPA
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) React
4 1 (2.63%) Redux
4 1 (2.63%) RESTful
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.63%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Data Structures
2 8 (21.05%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (18.42%) Equities
4 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.26%) NHS
6 1 (2.63%) FMCG
6 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (21.05%) ETL
3 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (21.05%) SDLC
4 7 (18.42%) Database Tuning
4 7 (18.42%) Multithreading
4 7 (18.42%) Open Source
5 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.53%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.53%) Migration
6 4 (10.53%) SQL Optimisation
6 4 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Waterfall
8 2 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.26%) Microservices
8 2 (5.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Java
3 8 (21.05%) Python
4 7 (18.42%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.63%) ProC
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Sybase
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) SAP
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.63%) Veracode