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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 3 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 26 23
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 10.32% 17.93% 8.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.87% 50.98% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 16
10th Percentile £231 £350 £143
25th Percentile £319 £361 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £470 £363
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +29.66% +0.76%
75th Percentile £653 £525 £469
90th Percentile £738 £550 £488
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
South East median hourly rate £62.76 £63.12 £58.91
% change year-on-year -0.57% +7.16% +82.37%

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 91 51 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 32.38% 35.17% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 33 75
10th Percentile £275 £332 £291
25th Percentile £288 £361 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £488
90th Percentile £673 £624 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £50.25 - £23.18
25th Percentile £50.63 £61.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £62.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +142.72% +16.20%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £27.81
90th Percentile £56.75 - £28.53
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.07
% change year-on-year -3.08% -5.53% +9.22%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 13 £223 -53.05% 4
Horsham - 6 £588 - 4
Worthing -15 3 £390 -12.65%
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
Burgess Hill -4 2 £313 -43.18% 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 3 (10.34%) ArcGIS
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.34%) Pentaho
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Gradle
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Aviation
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Advertising
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Consultant
1 9 (31.03%) Implementation Consultant
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Payroll Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Workflow Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Digital Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Digital Performance Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Logistics Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Migration Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) XML
2 4 (13.79%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) REST
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 3 (10.34%) Next.js
3 3 (10.34%) React
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
4 2 (6.90%) EDI
4 2 (6.90%) FHIR
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) Spring
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.45%) JPA
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.45%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
1 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
1 5 (17.24%) DevOps
2 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (13.79%) Agile
2 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
2 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (10.34%) Analytics
3 3 (10.34%) API Development
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineering
3 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
3 3 (10.34%) ETL
3 3 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
3 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (10.34%) Microservices
3 3 (10.34%) Migration
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) T-SQL
2 4 (13.79%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) HL7
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Talend
4 2 (6.90%) Baan
4 2 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) InterSystems
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Google