SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,479 2,406 3,409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.12% 9.95% 11.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.37% 34.05% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,765 2,364
10th Percentile £303 £315 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +7.14% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £540
90th Percentile £638 £650 £635
UK median daily rate £536 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -0.28% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 63 104
10th Percentile £22.43 £18.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.81 £22.46 £17.45
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +35.30% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.88 £49.25
90th Percentile £60.90 £75.70 £57.20
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £37.06
% change year-on-year -15.00% +34.92% +37.36%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,870 7,066 8,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.23% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 5,053 6,237
10th Percentile £315 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £656 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 352 339
10th Percentile £37.50 £22.57 £17.27
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.92 £27.49
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.63% +18.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.28
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +14.94%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
North of England -4 376 £475 -2.81% 396
South East -12 354 £475 -7.32% 322
Scotland -2 229 £475 -2.56% 128
North West -6 228 £475 - 240
Midlands -8 219 £425 -10.53% 306
South West -14 165 £538 +7.50% 171
West Midlands -8 148 £425 -19.05% 169
Yorkshire -6 113 £450 -10.00% 110
East of England -17 86 £450 +5.88% 165
East Midlands 0 69 £414 +3.44% 137
Wales +5 36 £419 -16.25% 46
North East +20 35 £475 -5.00% 51
Northern Ireland -1 19 £413 -8.33% 26
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
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 52 (3.52%) SAS
2 48 (3.25%) Confluence
3 43 (2.91%) Apache
4 39 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 38 (2.57%) SharePoint
6 33 (2.23%) Apache Spark
7 28 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (0.81%) IIS
9 7 (0.47%) CMS
9 7 (0.47%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
10 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (0.34%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.27%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
14 1 (0.068%) Site Server
Applications
1 110 (7.44%) Chatbot
2 65 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.54%) CATIA
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.47%) SPSS
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Aareon QL
3 8 (0.54%) DELMIA
4 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.27%) FastStats
7 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.27%) Unica
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 324 (21.91%) Azure
2 265 (17.92%) Power Platform
3 226 (15.28%) AWS
4 86 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 78 (5.27%) Serverless
7 61 (4.12%) Snowflake
8 52 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (3.31%) Amazon S3
10 44 (2.97%) GCP
11 41 (2.77%) Power Automate
12 38 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 35 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
15 32 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (1.89%) OpenShift
18 27 (1.83%) PowerApps
19 26 (1.76%) GitHub
20 25 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.16%) Firewall
2 30 (2.03%) DNS
3 27 (1.83%) DHCP
4 23 (1.56%) SAN
5 19 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.15%) VPN
7 14 (0.95%) BGP
8 12 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
9 11 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (0.74%) MPLS
9 11 (0.74%) Network Security
9 11 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (0.61%) AMQP
10 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.54%) FTP
11 8 (0.54%) Skype
11 8 (0.54%) WAN
12 7 (0.47%) LAN
13 6 (0.41%) iSCSI
13 6 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (17.11%) SQL Server
2 248 (16.77%) Power BI
3 138 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
5 97 (6.56%) Tableau
6 96 (6.49%) Relational Database
7 81 (5.48%) NoSQL
8 80 (5.41%) Oracle Database
8 80 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 70 (4.73%) Data Lake
10 62 (4.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 51 (3.45%) Big Data
13 44 (2.97%) MySQL
14 35 (2.37%) MongoDB
15 33 (2.23%) Metadata
16 31 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
16 31 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 26 (1.76%) BigQuery
18 22 (1.49%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 118 (7.98%) JIRA
2 99 (6.69%) Git
3 58 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.03%) GitLab
4 30 (2.03%) Oracle APEX
5 26 (1.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 24 (1.62%) Postman
7 21 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.35%) JUnit
8 20 (1.35%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.22%) Selenium
10 16 (1.08%) TestRail
11 15 (1.01%) Rational Rhapsody
12 13 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.74%) Robot Framework
14 10 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.54%) webpack
17 7 (0.47%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 302 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 203 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 175 (11.83%) Finance
4 97 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.12%) Retail
6 46 (3.11%) Banking
7 35 (2.37%) Marketing
8 33 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 31 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 20 (1.35%) Military
13 16 (1.08%) Legal
14 14 (0.95%) Automotive
15 13 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (0.74%) Local Government
16 11 (0.74%) Publishing
17 10 (0.68%) Billing
18 9 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 562 (38.00%) Developer
2 198 (13.39%) Analyst
3 135 (9.13%) Senior
4 127 (8.59%) Software Developer
5 122 (8.25%) Data Engineer
6 118 (7.98%) Data Analyst
7 72 (4.87%) SQL Developer
8 71 (4.80%) Architect
9 56 (3.79%) DBA
10 55 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 53 (3.58%) Lead
12 50 (3.38%) Java Developer
13 44 (2.97%) Senior Developer
14 41 (2.77%) Test Engineer
15 40 (2.70%) Consultant
16 38 (2.57%) Oracle Developer
16 38 (2.57%) SQL DBA
17 37 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
18 36 (2.43%) Power BI Developer
19 33 (2.23%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.97%) HTML
2 107 (7.23%) .NET
3 106 (7.17%) REST
4 75 (5.07%) Spring
5 62 (4.19%) Spring Boot
6 61 (4.12%) CSS
6 61 (4.12%) RESTful
7 50 (3.38%) AngularJS
7 50 (3.38%) XML
8 44 (2.97%) React
9 43 (2.91%) Kafka
10 36 (2.43%) JSON
11 31 (2.10%) SOAP
12 26 (1.76%) Web Services
13 25 (1.69%) .NET Core
14 21 (1.42%) Node.js
15 20 (1.35%) AWS CDK
16 18 (1.22%) JPA
17 16 (1.08%) PySpark
18 15 (1.01%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.11%) Product Ownership
2 30 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
3 29 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 29 (1.96%) PKI
4 27 (1.83%) Cloud Native
4 27 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 23 (1.56%) Replication
6 21 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 20 (1.35%) Clustering
8 19 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (0.81%) NHS
14 11 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.68%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 140 (9.47%) Windows
2 96 (6.49%) Linux
3 82 (5.54%) Windows Server
4 81 (5.48%) Unix
5 33 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 23 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 22 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (1.22%) VMS
10 14 (0.95%) Windows 7
11 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.54%) Solaris
13 5 (0.34%) AIX
13 5 (0.34%) Android
14 4 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
14 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (22.85%) Agile
2 284 (19.20%) Business Intelligence
3 203 (13.73%) Data Modelling
4 196 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (12.98%) Software Engineering
6 185 (12.51%) DevOps
7 184 (12.44%) Analytics
7 184 (12.44%) Migration
8 165 (11.16%) ETL
9 148 (10.01%) Artificial Intelligence
10 133 (8.99%) CI/CD
11 121 (8.18%) Code Quality
11 121 (8.18%) Scrum
12 110 (7.44%) Conversational UI
13 106 (7.17%) Data Analysis
13 106 (7.17%) Visualisation
14 86 (5.81%) Data Migration
15 80 (5.41%) CRM
16 79 (5.34%) Microservices
17 77 (5.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.76%) Python
2 237 (16.02%) C#
3 213 (14.40%) JavaScript
4 174 (11.76%) Java
5 158 (10.68%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.87%) T-SQL
7 69 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 60 (4.06%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 31 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 29 (1.96%) C
12 27 (1.83%) Scala
13 26 (1.76%) Bash
14 23 (1.56%) Go
14 23 (1.56%) PHP
15 21 (1.42%) C++
15 21 (1.42%) R
16 10 (0.68%) VB
17 9 (0.61%) ProC
17 9 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 230 (15.55%) Degree
2 192 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 137 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 42 (2.84%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.42%) MCSE
8 20 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.01%) MCSA
11 13 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.47%) ISEB
13 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.34%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.20%) CCNA
16 3 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 71 (4.80%) QA
3 22 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.08%) HL7
5 13 (0.88%) SLA
6 11 (0.74%) GDPR
7 8 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.47%) GxP
8 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.34%) GAMP
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS
10 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.068%) NIST
13 1 (0.068%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (6.76%) Docker
2 88 (5.95%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.81%) vSphere
6 10 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.47%) NFS
8 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.27%) GPFS
9 4 (0.27%) HDFS
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.14%) IAG
11 1 (0.068%) ACF2
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.99%) Terraform
3 48 (3.25%) Ansible
4 37 (2.50%) Grafana
5 14 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.88%) SCCM
6 13 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.54%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.47%) Kibana
10 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.41%) SCOM
11 5 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.34%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (0.34%) Nagios
11 5 (0.34%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.34%) VxRail
12 4 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 233 (15.75%) Oracle
3 108 (7.30%) PayPal
4 59 (3.99%) VMware
5 54 (3.65%) Databricks
6 36 (2.43%) Google
6 36 (2.43%) SAP
7 33 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.16%) Informatica
9 22 (1.49%) Avaloq
9 22 (1.49%) Splunk
10 17 (1.15%) Alteryx
11 14 (0.95%) Cisco
11 14 (0.95%) HP
11 14 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.81%) Brocade
12 12 (0.81%) EMC
12 12 (0.81%) Talend
13 11 (0.74%) IBM
14 10 (0.68%) IFS