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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 22 19 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 9.44% 15.57% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.74% 40.43% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 4
10th Percentile £174 £350 £141
25th Percentile £205 £425 £142
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £500 £145
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +244.83% -75.83%
75th Percentile £351 £638 £229
90th Percentile £703 - £377
South East median daily rate £469 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -7.13% -3.81% +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 54 47 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 23.18% 38.52% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 35
10th Percentile - £320 £348
25th Percentile £205 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +4.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £541 £580 £575
90th Percentile £641 £638 £678
South East median daily rate £485 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -3.82% -1.67%

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 12 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 12 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 +3 14 £210 -58.00% 29
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Worthing -14 2 £368 -41.20% 1
Bognor Regis - 1 £325 -
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 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.64%) ArcGIS
3 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (13.64%) PaaS
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Power BI
3 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (13.64%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Aviation
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 11 (50.00%) ERP Support
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Sales Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Sales Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) VB.NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) Next.js
2 3 (13.64%) React
3 2 (9.09%) XML
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) ERP
2 5 (22.73%) Validation
3 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) CRM
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (13.64%) API Development
4 3 (13.64%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.64%) Data Cleansing
4 3 (13.64%) Data Management
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
4 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (13.64%) Front End Development
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C#
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.09%) ISEB
2 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (59.09%) Oracle
3 5 (22.73%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) webMethods