ANSI SQL Contract Job Trends

ANSI SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ANSI SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 540 602
Rank change year-on-year -38 +62 +200
Contract jobs citing ANSI SQL 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.035% 0.026% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £675 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £506 -
90th Percentile - £518 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £475 -
% change year-on-year +47.37% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

ANSI 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,393 11,557 14,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 32.36% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 7,415 9,980
10th Percentile £349 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 282 433
10th Percentile £31.02 £22.00 £31.30
25th Percentile £48.75 £40.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

ANSI SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ANSI SQL job vacancy trend in the UK

ANSI SQL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ANSI SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ANSI SQL

ANSI SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ANSI SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ANSI SQL

ANSI SQL
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ANSI SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
UK excluding London -37 3 £700 +47.37% 4
Scotland - 3 £700 -
Work from Home -3 1 - - 6
London -5 1 - - 4
England -39 1 - - 6

ANSI SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Collibra
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NewSQL
1 3 (75.00%) OLTP
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) CockroachDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) HDInsight
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Database Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) OpenID
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks