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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 2 24
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 22 29 13
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 7.97% 20.71% 5.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.85% 47.54% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 8
10th Percentile £215 £353 £142
25th Percentile £319 £381 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £475 £370
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% +28.38% -33.48%
75th Percentile £653 £550 £445
90th Percentile £738 £638 £478
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South East median hourly rate £62.76 £63.12 £57.32
% change year-on-year -0.57% +10.12% +158.66%

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 79 61 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 28.62% 43.57% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 42 55
10th Percentile £275 £350 £285
25th Percentile £291 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +14.71% -27.41%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £513
90th Percentile £673 £633 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.29% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.59% -2.30% +7.27%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 0 12 £210 -56.92% 4
Worthing -20 3 £375 -20.21%
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Burgess Hill -7 2 £313 -43.18% 1
Horsham - 2 £588 - 2
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 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (13.64%) PaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Toad
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 3 (13.64%) Aviation
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Consultant
1 9 (40.91%) Implementation Consultant
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Payroll Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Applications Support
5 2 (9.09%) ERP Support
5 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Workflow Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Digital Performance Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAP Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) XML
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) REST
3 3 (13.64%) JSON
3 3 (13.64%) Next.js
3 3 (13.64%) React
3 3 (13.64%) SOAP
4 2 (9.09%) FHIR
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Spring
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.55%) JPA
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
1 5 (22.73%) DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (13.64%) API Development
3 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
3 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (13.64%) Front End Development
3 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (13.64%) Microservices
3 3 (13.64%) Secure Coding
4 2 (9.09%) ERP
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (9.09%) OOP
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Test Scripting
4 2 (9.09%) Validation
4 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) T-SQL
2 4 (18.18%) C#
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) ISEB
3 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
3 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) HL7
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) InterSystems
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) webMethods
4 1 (4.55%) Google