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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,470 2,319 3,357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.18% 9.89% 11.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.71% 34.02% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,015 1,688 2,322
10th Percentile £305 £320 £313
25th Percentile £396 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +5.69% +8.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £545
90th Percentile £638 £652 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 61 96
10th Percentile £22.61 £18.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.59 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +50.44% +12.42%
75th Percentile £59.24 £64.50 £49.06
90th Percentile £60.90 £75.75 £61.08
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.50% +42.86% +29.63%

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 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -4 387 £475 -1.04% 391
South East -9 354 £475 -6.86% 297
North West -2 240 £475 - 215
Midlands -5 224 £425 -5.56% 353
Scotland 0 218 £475 -2.56% 112
South West -14 159 £538 +7.50% 196
West Midlands -7 147 £425 -16.67% 209
Yorkshire -7 114 £450 -10.00% 141
East of England -23 83 £450 +5.88% 166
East Midlands -1 75 £400 - 144
Wales +12 35 £450 -17.43% 47
North East +14 33 £475 -5.00% 37
Northern Ireland -5 15 £400 -11.11% 24
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 (3.54%) Confluence
2 48 (3.27%) SAS
3 45 (3.06%) Apache
4 39 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 28 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (1.90%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.82%) IIS
8 7 (0.48%) CMS
8 7 (0.48%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.34%) nginx
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
13 1 (0.068%) Appian
Applications
1 108 (7.35%) Chatbot
2 63 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (0.54%) CATIA
4 8 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.54%) SPSS
5 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Aareon QL
3 8 (0.54%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.27%) FastStats
6 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.27%) Unica
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 334 (22.72%) Azure
2 274 (18.64%) Power Platform
3 212 (14.42%) AWS
4 91 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 74 (5.03%) Serverless
7 60 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 48 (3.27%) Amazon S3
8 48 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (2.86%) Power Automate
10 41 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 41 (2.79%) GCP
11 34 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.90%) GitHub
15 28 (1.90%) PowerApps
16 26 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.11%) Firewall
2 29 (1.97%) DNS
3 26 (1.77%) DHCP
4 18 (1.22%) SAN
5 17 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.09%) VPN
7 13 (0.88%) BGP
8 12 (0.82%) Network Security
9 11 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
10 10 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.68%) MPLS
10 10 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.61%) AMQP
11 9 (0.61%) WAN
12 8 (0.54%) FTP
13 7 (0.48%) LAN
14 6 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.41%) Skype
15 5 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (17.48%) Power BI
2 245 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 134 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
4 99 (6.73%) Tableau
5 97 (6.60%) Relational Database
6 91 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 82 (5.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 81 (5.51%) NoSQL
9 79 (5.37%) Oracle Database
10 73 (4.97%) Data Lake
11 60 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 54 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (3.47%) MySQL
14 47 (3.20%) Big Data
15 38 (2.59%) MongoDB
16 34 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
17 33 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 31 (2.11%) Metadata
19 27 (1.84%) BigQuery
20 23 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 119 (8.10%) JIRA
2 107 (7.28%) Git
3 55 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.97%) GitLab
5 28 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
5 28 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.77%) Postman
6 26 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 22 (1.50%) JUnit
8 20 (1.36%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.16%) Selenium
10 16 (1.09%) TestRail
11 14 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
12 12 (0.82%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
13 11 (0.75%) Robot Framework
14 9 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 8 (0.54%) IntelliJ
15 8 (0.54%) webpack
16 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 303 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 209 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
3 178 (12.11%) Finance
4 93 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.15%) Retail
6 47 (3.20%) Banking
7 36 (2.45%) Marketing
8 31 (2.11%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.36%) Military
11 20 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (1.16%) Legal
13 16 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.02%) Automotive
15 13 (0.88%) Local Government
16 12 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.68%) Billing
17 10 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 543 (36.94%) Developer
2 200 (13.61%) Analyst
3 141 (9.59%) Senior
4 128 (8.71%) Software Developer
5 123 (8.37%) Data Engineer
6 121 (8.23%) Data Analyst
7 73 (4.97%) Architect
8 70 (4.76%) SQL Developer
9 61 (4.15%) DBA
10 56 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 56 (3.81%) Lead
11 47 (3.20%) Java Developer
11 47 (3.20%) Test Engineer
12 43 (2.93%) Senior Developer
12 43 (2.93%) SQL DBA
13 39 (2.65%) Consultant
14 38 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
15 35 (2.38%) Power BI Developer
16 33 (2.24%) Oracle Developer
16 33 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (11.56%) HTML
2 112 (7.62%) .NET
3 102 (6.94%) REST
4 69 (4.69%) Spring
5 59 (4.01%) CSS
5 59 (4.01%) Spring Boot
6 57 (3.88%) RESTful
7 56 (3.81%) AngularJS
8 48 (3.27%) XML
9 44 (2.99%) React
10 40 (2.72%) Kafka
11 32 (2.18%) SOAP
12 31 (2.11%) JSON
13 24 (1.63%) .NET Core
14 22 (1.50%) Node.js
15 21 (1.43%) Web Services
16 19 (1.29%) PySpark
17 17 (1.16%) AWS CDK
18 16 (1.09%) .NET Framework
19 15 (1.02%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 41 (2.79%) Product Ownership
2 28 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
3 27 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (1.77%) Cloud Native
4 26 (1.77%) Onboarding
4 26 (1.77%) PKI
5 25 (1.70%) Management Information System
6 24 (1.63%) Replication
7 23 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.22%) Clustering
12 13 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 13 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (0.88%) NHS
13 12 (0.82%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 136 (9.25%) Windows
2 89 (6.05%) Linux
3 81 (5.51%) Unix
4 76 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (1.50%) Windows 10
7 20 (1.36%) VMS
8 19 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (0.88%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.54%) Android
14 7 (0.48%) Solaris
15 5 (0.34%) AIX
16 4 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
16 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (22.72%) Agile
2 300 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
3 193 (13.13%) Software Engineering
4 192 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (12.99%) Data Modelling
6 184 (12.52%) Analytics
7 182 (12.38%) DevOps
8 177 (12.04%) Migration
9 167 (11.36%) ETL
10 145 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
11 139 (9.46%) CI/CD
12 120 (8.16%) Code Quality
13 115 (7.82%) Scrum
14 114 (7.76%) Visualisation
15 108 (7.35%) Conversational UI
16 97 (6.60%) Data Analysis
17 92 (6.26%) Data Migration
18 84 (5.71%) Test Automation
19 79 (5.37%) CRM
20 77 (5.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 381 (25.92%) Python
2 243 (16.53%) C#
3 203 (13.81%) JavaScript
4 166 (11.29%) Java
5 145 (9.86%) PL/SQL
6 70 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 59 (4.01%) PowerShell
8 55 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 36 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 31 (2.11%) Bash
11 29 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.90%) C
13 27 (1.84%) R
14 22 (1.50%) Go
15 21 (1.43%) PHP
15 21 (1.43%) Scala
16 20 (1.36%) C++
17 15 (1.02%) VB
18 11 (0.75%) VBA
19 9 (0.61%) ProC
Qualifications
1 230 (15.65%) Degree
2 189 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 131 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 45 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (1.50%) MCSE
8 21 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (1.02%) MCSA
11 14 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.48%) ISEB
12 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.34%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.20%) HNC
15 3 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
16 2 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.97%) Data Quality
1 73 (4.97%) QA
2 19 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.02%) GDPR
3 15 (1.02%) HL7
4 14 (0.95%) SLA
5 7 (0.48%) GxP
6 6 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.34%) GAMP
8 4 (0.27%) IFRS
8 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.14%) PMO
10 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.068%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (6.80%) Docker
2 87 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) NFS
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) GPFS
8 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.20%) HDFS
9 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.068%) ACF2
10 1 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.068%) IAG
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 53 (3.61%) Terraform
3 42 (2.86%) Ansible
4 35 (2.38%) Grafana
5 14 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.68%) SCCM
8 8 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 8 (0.54%) Kibana
8 8 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.41%) SCOM
10 5 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.34%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.34%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.27%) Nagios
11 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.27%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 4 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 235 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 234 (15.92%) Oracle
3 108 (7.35%) PayPal
4 57 (3.88%) Databricks
5 53 (3.61%) VMware
6 39 (2.65%) Google
7 35 (2.38%) SAP
8 33 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.04%) Informatica
10 23 (1.56%) Splunk
11 21 (1.43%) Avaloq
12 16 (1.09%) Alteryx
13 14 (0.95%) Cisco
14 13 (0.88%) Red Hat
15 12 (0.82%) EMC
16 11 (0.75%) HP
16 11 (0.75%) IBM
16 11 (0.75%) IFS
16 11 (0.75%) Talend
17 9 (0.61%) Brocade