SQL Contracts in West End of London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Central London > West End of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of 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 1 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 16 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 30.77% 5.26% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 88.89% 26.67% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile - £545 £440
25th Percentile £503 £556 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £489
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +22.76% +15.00%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £531
90th Percentile £638 £645 £548
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +6.53%

All Programming Languages
West End of 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 West End of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 34.62% 19.74% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 14
10th Percentile £490 £385 £413
25th Percentile £503 £434 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -16.92% +40.54%
75th Percentile £508 £609 £765
90th Percentile £638 £664 £775
Central London median daily rate £565 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -8.13% +2.50% +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West End of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL in West End of London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in West End of London

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Contract Job Locations in West End of 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 West End of 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
Westminster +7 6 - - 3
Holborn - 5 £505 -
SQL
Central London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of 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 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (37.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (37.50%) Power BI
3 6 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (12.50%) Parquet
5 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata
6 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Deequ
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Zephyr
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Retail
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Billing
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) ERP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) ETL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
2 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) Great Expectations
2 2 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (12.50%) JSON Schema
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Dimensional Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) Kanban
3 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 6 (37.50%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (31.25%) ETL
5 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (12.50%) Revenue Management
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PL/SQL
1 6 (37.50%) XPath
1 6 (37.50%) XQuery
2 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) Databricks