SQL Developer Contracts

SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 402 390
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 -36
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 188 339 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.57% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 275 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +13.95%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £575
90th Percentile £751 £703 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £436
% change year-on-year -2.06% +11.17% +9.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £42.02
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer.

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Developer.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England -13 160 £500 -4.76% 69
Work from Home +64 102 £500 -5.88% 49
London +31 99 £600 - 29
UK excluding London +9 74 £475 -2.06% 47
South East +7 22 £513 - 5
Midlands +18 20 £488 - 21
West Midlands +22 16 £500 - 12
North of England +21 15 £450 -4.26% 11
Wales +22 10 £390 -23.90% 3
North West +11 8 £438 -4.37% 6
Yorkshire +26 7 £450 -5.26% 5
Scotland +31 5 £538 +19.44% 4
East Midlands +19 4 £388 +9.15% 9
East of England 0 3 £300 -45.45% 2
South West -2 2 £305 -32.22% 1

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 184 (97.87%) SQL
2 66 (35.11%) SQL Server
3 61 (32.45%) Oracle
4 51 (27.13%) Agile
5 47 (25.00%) PL/SQL
6 39 (20.74%) C#
7 34 (18.09%) Data Modelling
8 33 (17.55%) Finance
9 32 (17.02%) Azure
10 30 (15.96%) Microsoft
11 28 (14.89%) .NET
12 27 (14.36%) DevOps
13 26 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (13.30%) Unix
14 25 (13.30%) Scrum
14 25 (13.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 24 (12.77%) Java
16 23 (12.23%) Oracle Database
17 22 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
18 21 (11.17%) Banking
19 20 (10.64%) T-SQL
19 20 (10.64%) Python
19 20 (10.64%) SDLC
19 20 (10.64%) Social Skills
20 19 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 18 (9.57%) ETL
21 18 (9.57%) Public Sector
22 17 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
23 16 (8.51%) Software Engineering
23 16 (8.51%) Unit Testing

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.53%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.02%) Azure
2 16 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 15 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.38%) AWS
5 10 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.19%) Serverless
7 5 (2.66%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.66%) OCI
7 5 (2.66%) PowerApps
8 4 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.13%) PaaS
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.06%) Apigee
10 2 (1.06%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.06%) GCP
10 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.06%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (35.11%) SQL Server
2 25 (13.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 23 (12.23%) Oracle Database
4 22 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (7.98%) Power BI
8 12 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (5.32%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.72%) NoSQL
10 7 (3.72%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (3.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.19%) Tableau
12 5 (2.66%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (2.66%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
15 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
15 2 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Git
2 8 (4.26%) JIRA
3 7 (3.72%) Maven
4 6 (3.19%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.66%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (2.66%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.13%) Ant
6 4 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.06%) JUnit
8 2 (1.06%) Mockito
8 2 (1.06%) Postman
8 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.53%) GitLab
9 1 (0.53%) GoCD
9 1 (0.53%) NUnit
9 1 (0.53%) tSQLt
General
1 33 (17.55%) Finance
2 21 (11.17%) Banking
3 20 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 18 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.66%) Retail Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Back Office
7 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Marketing
8 2 (1.06%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.06%) Local Government
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Electronics
9 1 (0.53%) Front Office
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.89%) .NET
2 10 (5.32%) Hibernate
2 10 (5.32%) JPA
3 7 (3.72%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.72%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.19%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.19%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.13%) REST
6 3 (1.60%) React
7 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.06%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.06%) gRPC
7 2 (1.06%) jQuery
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.06%) Spring
7 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.06%) Swagger
7 2 (1.06%) Web Services
7 2 (1.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (3.72%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.72%) Market Risk
2 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.66%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.13%) Derivative
6 2 (1.06%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Clustering
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.53%) Replication
7 1 (0.53%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.30%) Unix
2 5 (2.66%) Linux
3 4 (2.13%) VMS
4 3 (1.60%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.13%) Agile
2 34 (18.09%) Data Modelling
3 27 (14.36%) DevOps
4 26 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (13.30%) Scrum
6 20 (10.64%) SDLC
7 18 (9.57%) ETL
8 17 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (8.51%) Migration
9 16 (8.51%) Software Engineering
9 16 (8.51%) Unit Testing
10 15 (7.98%) Physical Data Model
10 15 (7.98%) Software Testing
11 14 (7.45%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (6.91%) TDD
13 12 (6.38%) CI/CD
13 12 (6.38%) OO
14 10 (5.32%) Database Tuning
14 10 (5.32%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (5.32%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 184 (97.87%) SQL
2 47 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 39 (20.74%) C#
4 24 (12.77%) Java
5 20 (10.64%) Python
5 20 (10.64%) T-SQL
6 16 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.32%) Perl
8 9 (4.79%) Bash
8 9 (4.79%) Bourne shell
8 9 (4.79%) Korn
9 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.13%) COBOL
11 3 (1.60%) DCL
12 2 (1.06%) C
12 2 (1.06%) VB
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (7.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.06%) Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.13%) MiFID
2 3 (1.60%) QA
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) EMIR
3 1 (0.53%) FATCA
3 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.53%) HL7
3 1 (0.53%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.06%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 61 (32.45%) Oracle
2 30 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.26%) Sparx
4 7 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.13%) RedGate
6 3 (1.60%) SAP
7 2 (1.06%) IBM
7 2 (1.06%) Murex
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Infor
8 1 (0.53%) Mercator
8 1 (0.53%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Sybase
8 1 (0.53%) Workday