SQL Contracts in West London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 8 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 14 37 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 6.67% 10.42% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.42% 34.58% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 33
10th Percentile £428 £189 £433
25th Percentile £481 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £750 £538 £588
90th Percentile £776 £589 £638
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
London median hourly rate £49.50 £45.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +12.30%

All Programming Languages
West London

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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 53 107 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 25.24% 30.14% 29.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 78 122
10th Percentile £341 £235 £425
25th Percentile £387 £350 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -17.83% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £634
90th Percentile £750 £625 £650
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 22
10th Percentile £29.01 £26.41 £65.00
25th Percentile £29.02 £30.32 £71.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.84 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.19% -50.88% +88.63%
75th Percentile £29.05 £51.92 £84.38
90th Percentile £29.06 £60.97 £90.00
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in West London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wembley -1 3 £550 +22.77% 1
Hillingdon +3 2 £450 - 5
Hammersmith -4 2 £238 -26.92% 6
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
3 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (14.29%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) MS Access
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (7.14%) Power Query
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Local Government
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Information Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
1 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
1 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
2 4 (28.57%) REST
3 3 (21.43%) .NET Core
3 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (21.43%) Autofac
3 3 (21.43%) Dapper ORM
3 3 (21.43%) Entity Framework
3 3 (21.43%) StructureMap
3 3 (21.43%) WCF
3 3 (21.43%) Web Services
4 2 (14.29%) React
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) RESTCONF
5 1 (7.14%) XML
5 1 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) N-Tier
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MVC
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
2 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 3 (21.43%) BDD
3 3 (21.43%) CRM
3 3 (21.43%) Data Design
3 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (21.43%) OOP
3 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 3 (21.43%) Web Development
4 2 (14.29%) Batch Processing
4 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) VB
5 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) MCPD
2 3 (21.43%) MCSD
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (14.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle