ANSI SQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

ANSI SQL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ANSI SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ANSI 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 303 - 473
Rank change year-on-year - - +155
Contract jobs citing ANSI SQL 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.027% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £624
25th Percentile £463 - £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.19%
75th Percentile £488 - £950
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 - £775
% change year-on-year - - +44.19%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

ANSI SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

ANSI SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ANSI SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ANSI SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ANSI SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ANSI SQL.

ANSI SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ANSI SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft