SQL Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 19 19 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 7.88% 15.70% 2.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.93% 39.58% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 6
10th Percentile £197 £350 £141
25th Percentile £205 £425 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £500 £248
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +102.02% -58.75%
75th Percentile £368 £638 £439
90th Percentile £738 - £472
South East median daily rate £475 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 56 48 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 23.24% 39.67% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 40
10th Percentile £205 £320 £303
25th Percentile £206 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +4.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £575
90th Percentile £658 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £485 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -4.43% -3.33% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £58.30
% change year-on-year -4.59% -1.12% -2.83%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

SQL job vacancy trend in West Sussex

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Sussex over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West Sussex

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. 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
Crawley +2 12 £210 -58.00% 39
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Worthing -13 2 £368 -41.20% 1
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) ArcGIS
3 1 (5.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (15.79%) PaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle Database
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Toad
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Aviation
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Applications Support
1 10 (52.63%) ERP Support
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) Next.js
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) ERP
2 5 (26.32%) Validation
3 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (15.79%) API Development
3 3 (15.79%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) CRM
3 3 (15.79%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (15.79%) Data Management
3 3 (15.79%) Data Validation
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
3 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) C#
1 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (63.16%) Oracle
3 5 (26.32%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) webMethods