SQL Contracts in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,635 5,897 8,713
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.89% 12.04% 12.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.45% 34.26% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 4,312 6,315
10th Percentile £359 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% +8.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 82 133
10th Percentile £23.50 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £49.28 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +40.81% +33.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.24 £82.95 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% +42.86% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,868 17,213 25,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.56% 35.15% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,897 12,563 19,043
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 423 453
10th Percentile £37.78 £26.09 £20.05
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £61.84 £50.50
% change year-on-year +0.95% +22.45% +16.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +1 2,293 £575 - 1,111
North of England -5 392 £475 -1.86% 399
South East -11 356 £475 -7.09% 292
North West -5 241 £475 - 216
Midlands -5 225 £425 -5.56% 357
South West -14 161 £538 +7.50% 199
West Midlands -7 148 £438 -14.22% 214
Yorkshire -8 119 £450 -10.00% 147
East of England -19 82 £450 +5.88% 170
East Midlands 0 75 £400 - 143
North East +14 32 £475 -5.00% 38
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 119 (3.27%) Apache
2 104 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 62 (1.71%) Confluence
6 59 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 56 (1.54%) SAS
8 40 (1.10%) IIS
9 14 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
9 14 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 13 (0.36%) CMS
11 12 (0.33%) MTS
11 12 (0.33%) nginx
12 11 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.17%) Tornado
15 6 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 173 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 50 (1.38%) MS Visio
4 39 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 27 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.28%) SPSS
8 8 (0.22%) CATIA
9 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.055%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.055%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 43 (1.18%) Endur
2 27 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 23 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 20 (0.55%) NEC Housing
5 17 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
6 16 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 14 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
8 14 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
10 12 (0.33%) EuroRunner
10 12 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
11 11 (0.30%) Aligne
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
12 10 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
12 10 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
13 9 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
13 9 (0.25%) Loan IQ
13 9 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 970 (26.69%) Azure
2 648 (17.83%) AWS
3 522 (14.36%) Power Platform
4 216 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
5 208 (5.72%) Serverless
6 193 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 172 (4.73%) GCP
8 123 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 121 (3.33%) GitHub
10 107 (2.94%) Snowflake
11 103 (2.83%) Amazon S3
12 94 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 74 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 69 (1.90%) PowerApps
15 67 (1.84%) Power Automate
16 65 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 65 (1.79%) Azure Functions
17 64 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
18 63 (1.73%) PaaS
19 62 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.46%) Firewall
2 41 (1.13%) DNS
3 34 (0.94%) DHCP
4 32 (0.88%) Internet
5 30 (0.83%) VPN
6 21 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 19 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (0.47%) BGP
8 17 (0.47%) SAN
8 17 (0.47%) WAN
9 16 (0.44%) Network Security
10 15 (0.41%) MPLS
11 13 (0.36%) LAN
12 12 (0.33%) FTP
13 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
13 11 (0.30%) HTTP
13 11 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
14 9 (0.25%) Skype
14 9 (0.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 646 (17.77%) SQL Server
2 491 (13.51%) Power BI
3 385 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 285 (7.84%) NoSQL
5 232 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 220 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
7 186 (5.12%) Tableau
8 175 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 173 (4.76%) Data Lake
10 165 (4.54%) Big Data
11 157 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 153 (4.21%) Oracle Database
13 124 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 113 (3.11%) MySQL
15 89 (2.45%) MongoDB
16 84 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
17 71 (1.95%) BigQuery
18 67 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
19 65 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 63 (1.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 242 (6.66%) Git
2 208 (5.72%) JIRA
3 99 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 75 (2.06%) TeamCity
5 58 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 48 (1.32%) GitLab
7 38 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 35 (0.96%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.83%) Selenium
10 28 (0.77%) Postman
11 27 (0.74%) NUnit
12 26 (0.72%) JUnit
13 23 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 23 (0.63%) SpecFlow
14 22 (0.61%) Maven
15 19 (0.52%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.52%) TestRail
16 18 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
17 17 (0.47%) Artifactory
17 17 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 935 (25.72%) Finance
2 778 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 506 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (11.09%) Banking
5 271 (7.46%) Front Office
6 214 (5.89%) Public Sector
7 124 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 107 (2.94%) Retail
9 99 (2.72%) Marketing
10 98 (2.70%) Back Office
11 74 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 65 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 58 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 36 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 33 (0.91%) Local Government
16 32 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 27 (0.74%) Electronics
17 27 (0.74%) Legal
18 26 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,212 (33.34%) Developer
2 556 (15.30%) Analyst
3 407 (11.20%) Data Engineer
4 353 (9.71%) Senior
5 229 (6.30%) Data Analyst
6 206 (5.67%) Architect
7 184 (5.06%) Business Analyst
8 170 (4.68%) Software Developer
9 161 (4.43%) C# Developer
10 142 (3.91%) Lead
10 142 (3.91%) SQL Developer
11 136 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 134 (3.69%) .NET Developer
13 123 (3.38%) Consultant
14 117 (3.22%) DBA
15 103 (2.83%) Software Engineer
16 102 (2.81%) Python Developer
16 102 (2.81%) Senior Developer
17 100 (2.75%) Full Stack Developer
18 91 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (12.87%) .NET
2 292 (8.03%) HTML
3 188 (5.17%) React
4 159 (4.37%) XML
5 158 (4.35%) REST
6 139 (3.82%) JSON
7 126 (3.47%) Kafka
8 125 (3.44%) CSS
9 115 (3.16%) AngularJS
9 115 (3.16%) RESTful
10 109 (3.00%) PySpark
11 101 (2.78%) .NET Core
12 100 (2.75%) Web Services
13 96 (2.64%) .NET Framework
14 89 (2.45%) SOAP
15 85 (2.34%) Spring
16 82 (2.26%) Node.js
17 73 (2.01%) ASP.NET
18 58 (1.60%) Pandas
19 57 (1.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 150 (4.13%) Derivative
2 121 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 115 (3.16%) Hedge funds
4 98 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 95 (2.61%) Equities
6 89 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 64 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 61 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 59 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 57 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 53 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.43%) Cloud Native
15 50 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
16 46 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
17 42 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
17 42 (1.16%) Market Risk
18 40 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
19 35 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 319 (8.78%) Windows
2 237 (6.52%) Linux
3 192 (5.28%) Unix
4 124 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 29 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (0.80%) VMS
8 27 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 26 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 15 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 14 (0.39%) CentOS
11 14 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 10 (0.28%) Solaris
13 8 (0.22%) Android
13 8 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.19%) AIX
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.11%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (23.00%) Agile
2 650 (17.88%) Business Intelligence
3 561 (15.43%) Data Modelling
4 538 (14.80%) DevOps
5 494 (13.59%) Analytics
6 488 (13.43%) ETL
7 459 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 424 (11.66%) Software Engineering
9 382 (10.51%) CI/CD
9 382 (10.51%) Migration
10 296 (8.14%) Data Analysis
11 264 (7.26%) Visualisation
12 261 (7.18%) Data Pipeline
13 249 (6.85%) Scrum
14 234 (6.44%) Computer Science
15 228 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence
16 223 (6.13%) Data Engineering
17 211 (5.80%) Test Automation
18 188 (5.17%) Full Stack Development
19 187 (5.14%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (32.65%) Python
2 724 (19.92%) C#
3 449 (12.35%) Java
4 438 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 258 (7.10%) PL/SQL
6 236 (6.49%) PowerShell
7 206 (5.67%) T-SQL
8 130 (3.58%) TypeScript
9 83 (2.28%) C++
10 73 (2.01%) Scala
11 72 (1.98%) Bash
11 72 (1.98%) R
12 65 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 65 (1.79%) VBA
13 55 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 51 (1.40%) Go
15 49 (1.35%) C
16 41 (1.13%) VB
17 39 (1.07%) Perl
18 38 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 488 (13.43%) Degree
2 387 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 296 (8.14%) SC Cleared
4 114 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 58 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 48 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (0.72%) MCSE
11 20 (0.55%) PhD
12 18 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 17 (0.47%) MCSA
14 14 (0.39%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.36%) AWS Certification
16 12 (0.33%) CISSP
17 9 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
17 9 (0.25%) PMP
18 8 (0.22%) ISEB
19 6 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 204 (5.61%) QA
3 37 (1.02%) SLA
4 35 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 35 (0.96%) MiFID
5 34 (0.94%) GDPR
6 25 (0.69%) EMIR
7 24 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.58%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.39%) HL7
10 11 (0.30%) IFRS
10 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.25%) PMO
12 8 (0.22%) WCAG
13 7 (0.19%) GxP
14 6 (0.17%) Basel III
14 6 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.17%) IFRS 9
14 6 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 211 (5.80%) Docker
2 192 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.72%) IAG
6 24 (0.66%) ACF2
6 24 (0.66%) RACF
7 13 (0.36%) vSphere
8 9 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.17%) HDFS
9 6 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.055%) Firmware
12 2 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 202 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 151 (4.15%) Terraform
3 73 (2.01%) Ansible
4 46 (1.27%) Grafana
5 26 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 20 (0.55%) SCCM
8 19 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
9 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.33%) SCOM
10 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (0.25%) BladeLogic
11 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.22%) Data Guard
12 8 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.22%) WSUS
13 7 (0.19%) Kibana
13 7 (0.19%) PingFederate
13 7 (0.19%) Podman
13 7 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 575 (15.82%) Oracle
2 571 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 220 (6.05%) Databricks
4 132 (3.63%) SAP
5 110 (3.03%) PayPal
6 102 (2.81%) Google
7 80 (2.20%) VMware
8 72 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 71 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 61 (1.68%) Informatica
11 52 (1.43%) Splunk
12 40 (1.10%) Citrix
12 40 (1.10%) IBM
13 37 (1.02%) Sybase
14 34 (0.94%) Bloomberg
15 31 (0.85%) Cisco
16 27 (0.74%) Dynatrace
17 24 (0.66%) Alteryx
17 24 (0.66%) NEC
18 22 (0.61%) Adobe