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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 546 620
Rank change year-on-year -22 +74 +208
Contract jobs citing ANSI SQL 9 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.003% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.080% 0.009% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -
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 11,301 11,753 14,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 32.12% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,439 7,592 10,502
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £660
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 282 442
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £42.81 £38.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year - +0.94% +0.68%
75th Percentile £67.44 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ANSI SQL over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ANSI SQL in the UK

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 7 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 8 November 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 - 9 £650 - 22
Scotland - 5 £675 -
England -16 4 £500 +11.11% 19
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - - 19
Work from Home +10 2 £500 +11.11% 2
East of England - 1 £500 -

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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (22.22%) dbt
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) NewSQL
1 5 (55.56%) OLTP
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) CockroachDB
3 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Bigtable
3 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Power Query
4 1 (11.11%) QlikView
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Database Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Architect
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Excel Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OpenID
1 5 (55.56%) SAML
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Benchmarking
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Design
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Information Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Business Case
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Control-M
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cognos
1 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) Teradata