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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,647 5,549 8,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.88% 11.62% 12.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.76% 33.77% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 4,064 6,344
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 73 123
10th Percentile £22.65 £21.43 £16.05
25th Percentile £27.28 £27.10 £18.54
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £54.03 £71.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.00 £63.72
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 11,133 16,431 25,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 34.41% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,040 12,043 19,088
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 394 438
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.23
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2,303 £575 -0.43% 1,245
North of England -3 416 £475 -2.06% 455
South East -11 345 £473 -9.13% 278
North West -1 245 £475 - 264
Midlands -1 233 £425 -5.56% 280
South West -15 156 £538 +7.50% 191
West Midlands -4 147 £425 -15.00% 167
Yorkshire -2 138 £500 -1.96% 155
East Midlands +2 85 £400 - 113
East of England -20 81 £450 +2.27% 124
North East +17 33 £475 - 41
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
1 113 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 108 (2.96%) Apache
3 98 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 70 (1.92%) SAS
6 57 (1.56%) Confluence
7 55 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 41 (1.12%) IIS
9 21 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
10 13 (0.36%) CMS
11 12 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
12 10 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.27%) MTS
13 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.16%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.16%) Umbraco
15 6 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 177 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (3.02%) Chatbot
3 48 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 39 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.27%) SPSS
8 8 (0.22%) CATIA
9 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.055%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.055%) Mingle
10 2 (0.055%) Trello
11 1 (0.027%) Elementor
11 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 42 (1.15%) Endur
2 27 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 22 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 22 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
5 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 14 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 13 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.27%) EuroRunner
8 10 (0.27%) ION MarketView
8 10 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.25%) Aligne
9 9 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.22%) Aareon QL
10 8 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
10 8 (0.22%) DELMIA
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (27.47%) Azure
2 647 (17.74%) AWS
3 540 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 210 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (5.51%) Serverless
6 179 (4.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 170 (4.66%) GCP
8 125 (3.43%) GitHub
9 118 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 116 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 116 (3.18%) Snowflake
11 88 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 77 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 69 (1.89%) PowerApps
14 66 (1.81%) PaaS
15 65 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
15 65 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
15 65 (1.78%) Power Automate
16 61 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 60 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.18%) Firewall
2 41 (1.12%) DNS
3 34 (0.93%) DHCP
4 33 (0.90%) Internet
5 24 (0.66%) VPN
6 19 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.41%) Network Security
8 15 (0.41%) SAN
9 13 (0.36%) FTP
10 11 (0.30%) BGP
10 11 (0.30%) HTTP
10 11 (0.30%) WAN
11 10 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
11 10 (0.27%) LAN
11 10 (0.27%) SSH
12 9 (0.25%) AMQP
12 9 (0.25%) MPLS
12 9 (0.25%) Skype
13 8 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 641 (17.58%) SQL Server
2 512 (14.04%) Power BI
3 385 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
4 288 (7.90%) NoSQL
5 230 (6.31%) Relational Database
6 214 (5.87%) Tableau
7 197 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
8 182 (4.99%) Data Lake
9 174 (4.77%) Big Data
10 173 (4.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 171 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
12 145 (3.98%) Oracle Database
13 129 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 112 (3.07%) MySQL
15 91 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
16 84 (2.30%) MongoDB
17 76 (2.08%) BigQuery
18 74 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
19 65 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 62 (1.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 249 (6.83%) Git
2 204 (5.59%) JIRA
3 123 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 74 (2.03%) TeamCity
5 58 (1.59%) Visual Studio
6 50 (1.37%) GitLab
7 41 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 36 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 35 (0.96%) Selenium
10 29 (0.80%) Postman
11 27 (0.74%) JUnit
12 25 (0.69%) NUnit
13 24 (0.66%) Cypress.io
13 24 (0.66%) SpecFlow
14 22 (0.60%) Maven
15 19 (0.52%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
16 17 (0.47%) Artifactory
16 17 (0.47%) TestRail
17 16 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 930 (25.50%) Finance
2 781 (21.41%) Social Skills
3 526 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 394 (10.80%) Banking
5 258 (7.07%) Front Office
6 204 (5.59%) Public Sector
7 131 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 116 (3.18%) Retail
9 95 (2.60%) Marketing
10 85 (2.33%) Back Office
11 66 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 55 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 52 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 35 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 35 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 34 (0.93%) Local Government
16 30 (0.82%) Billing
17 29 (0.80%) Legal
18 25 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,214 (33.29%) Developer
2 593 (16.26%) Analyst
3 391 (10.72%) Data Engineer
4 364 (9.98%) Senior
5 236 (6.47%) Data Analyst
6 207 (5.68%) Architect
7 183 (5.02%) Business Analyst
8 167 (4.58%) Software Developer
9 157 (4.30%) C# Developer
10 135 (3.70%) SQL Developer
11 134 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
11 134 (3.67%) Lead
12 129 (3.54%) .NET Developer
12 129 (3.54%) Consultant
13 115 (3.15%) DBA
14 109 (2.99%) Senior Developer
14 109 (2.99%) Software Engineer
15 101 (2.77%) Python Developer
16 100 (2.74%) Full Stack Developer
17 93 (2.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 457 (12.53%) .NET
2 307 (8.42%) HTML
3 180 (4.94%) React
4 158 (4.33%) XML
5 150 (4.11%) REST
6 138 (3.78%) Kafka
7 133 (3.65%) CSS
8 127 (3.48%) JSON
9 119 (3.26%) AngularJS
10 117 (3.21%) RESTful
11 102 (2.80%) PySpark
12 101 (2.77%) .NET Core
12 101 (2.77%) .NET Framework
12 101 (2.77%) Web Services
13 92 (2.52%) Spring
14 86 (2.36%) SOAP
15 78 (2.14%) Node.js
16 70 (1.92%) ASP.NET
17 51 (1.40%) Spring Boot
18 50 (1.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 148 (4.06%) Derivative
2 129 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 114 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 102 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 97 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 95 (2.60%) Equities
7 71 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 68 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 65 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 64 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 60 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 60 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
12 56 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 50 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
14 45 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (1.21%) Cloud Native
16 42 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
17 35 (0.96%) Clustering
17 35 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 327 (8.97%) Windows
2 229 (6.28%) Linux
3 204 (5.59%) Unix
4 129 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 32 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 28 (0.77%) VMS
7 28 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 16 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.30%) Solaris
12 10 (0.27%) CentOS
13 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.19%) AIX
14 7 (0.19%) Android
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.11%) zOS
16 3 (0.082%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (22.70%) Agile
2 660 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
3 551 (15.11%) Data Modelling
4 536 (14.70%) Analytics
5 534 (14.64%) DevOps
6 488 (13.38%) ETL
7 482 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 420 (11.52%) Software Engineering
9 380 (10.42%) Migration
10 368 (10.09%) CI/CD
11 304 (8.34%) Data Analysis
12 264 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
13 260 (7.13%) Scrum
14 257 (7.05%) Visualisation
15 250 (6.85%) Computer Science
16 227 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
17 214 (5.87%) Test Automation
18 210 (5.76%) Data Engineering
19 202 (5.54%) Data Science
20 188 (5.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,167 (32.00%) Python
2 685 (18.78%) C#
3 453 (12.42%) Java
3 453 (12.42%) JavaScript
4 255 (6.99%) PL/SQL
5 241 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 214 (5.87%) T-SQL
7 124 (3.40%) TypeScript
8 83 (2.28%) C++
9 73 (2.00%) Bash
9 73 (2.00%) R
9 73 (2.00%) Shell Script
10 64 (1.75%) Scala
10 64 (1.75%) VBA
11 52 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 51 (1.40%) C
12 51 (1.40%) Go
13 45 (1.23%) Perl
14 44 (1.21%) VB
15 37 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 508 (13.93%) Degree
2 363 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 271 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 125 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 64 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 50 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 30 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (0.74%) MCSE
11 19 (0.52%) MCSA
11 19 (0.52%) PhD
11 19 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 16 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
13 14 (0.38%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.36%) CISSP
14 13 (0.36%) PMP
15 12 (0.33%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.27%) PMI Certification
17 7 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 202 (5.54%) QA
3 44 (1.21%) SLA
4 37 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 36 (0.99%) GDPR
6 32 (0.88%) MiFID
7 25 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.66%) EMIR
9 19 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
10 14 (0.38%) HL7
11 13 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.25%) PMO
13 8 (0.22%) IFRS
13 8 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.22%) WCAG
14 7 (0.19%) GxP
14 7 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 6 (0.16%) Basel III
16 5 (0.14%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 217 (5.95%) Docker
2 193 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 51 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.71%) IAG
6 24 (0.66%) ACF2
6 24 (0.66%) RACF
7 13 (0.36%) vSphere
8 11 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.22%) HDFS
9 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.055%) Firmware
13 2 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 221 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.33%) Terraform
3 69 (1.89%) Ansible
4 42 (1.15%) Grafana
5 24 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
7 18 (0.49%) SCCM
8 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.25%) BladeLogic
10 9 (0.25%) Control-M
10 9 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.25%) SCOM
11 7 (0.19%) PingFederate
11 7 (0.19%) WSUS
12 6 (0.16%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.16%) Kibana
12 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 586 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 569 (15.60%) Oracle
3 206 (5.65%) Databricks
4 120 (3.29%) SAP
5 111 (3.04%) Google
6 110 (3.02%) PayPal
7 82 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 82 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 81 (2.22%) VMware
9 55 (1.51%) Informatica
10 51 (1.40%) Splunk
11 43 (1.18%) Citrix
12 40 (1.10%) Sybase
13 37 (1.01%) Bloomberg
13 37 (1.01%) IBM
14 29 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 27 (0.74%) NEC
16 26 (0.71%) Dynatrace
17 24 (0.66%) CyberArk
18 23 (0.63%) Cisco