SQL Contracts in London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 2,284 3,465 5,267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.11% 13.55% 13.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.20% 33.88% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,771 2,550 4,002
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -1.70% +6.82%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £545 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -0.91% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 34
10th Percentile £25.99 £22.71 £27.58
25th Percentile £40.75 £34.81 £34.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £44.52 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +1.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £51.75 £82.63 £57.23
90th Percentile £53.90 £90.00 £69.35
England median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +34.62%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,488 10,227 16,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.24% 39.99% 41.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,942 7,712 12,517
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.58%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.09% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 103
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.05
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% -0.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.77
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +20.11%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London -2 336 £575 -4.17% 122
West London +11 35 £450 -14.29% 30
East London +4 35 £540 +14.29% 9
South London -6 24 £479 -4.25% 11
North London +4 5 £560 +6.67% 1
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 83 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.24%) Apache
3 69 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.18%) IIS
6 20 (0.88%) SAS
7 17 (0.74%) Confluence
8 15 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.44%) MTS
10 9 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.18%) MQSeries
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 114 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 28 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.13%) SPSS
8 2 (0.088%) FileZilla
8 2 (0.088%) Mingle
9 1 (0.044%) Elementor
9 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 42 (1.84%) Endur
2 27 (1.18%) Aladdin
3 20 (0.88%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
5 14 (0.61%) SimCorp Dimension
6 12 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.44%) EuroRunner
8 9 (0.39%) Aligne
8 9 (0.39%) ION MarketView
9 8 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
9 8 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.22%) Markit EDM
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 677 (29.64%) Azure
2 475 (20.80%) AWS
3 266 (11.65%) Power Platform
4 137 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 132 (5.78%) Serverless
6 116 (5.08%) GCP
7 100 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 85 (3.72%) GitHub
9 81 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
10 76 (3.33%) Amazon S3
11 60 (2.63%) Snowflake
12 53 (2.32%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 50 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (2.10%) PaaS
16 43 (1.88%) PowerApps
17 42 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 36 (1.58%) Azure Functions
19 34 (1.49%) Entra ID
19 34 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.31%) Internet
2 15 (0.66%) Firewall
3 10 (0.44%) DNS
3 10 (0.44%) SSH
3 10 (0.44%) VPN
4 9 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (0.26%) DHCP
5 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.22%) FTP
6 5 (0.22%) HTTP
6 5 (0.22%) WAN
7 4 (0.18%) LAN
8 3 (0.13%) SAN
8 3 (0.13%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.088%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.088%) MPLS
9 2 (0.088%) Network Security
9 2 (0.088%) Skype
9 2 (0.088%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.088%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (18.04%) SQL Server
2 256 (11.21%) Power BI
3 245 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (9.50%) NoSQL
5 145 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 132 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
7 121 (5.30%) Big Data
8 119 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 115 (5.04%) Tableau
10 97 (4.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 94 (4.12%) Oracle Database
12 91 (3.98%) Data Lake
13 76 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 61 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (2.63%) MySQL
16 58 (2.54%) MongoDB
17 43 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
18 38 (1.66%) DynamoDB
19 36 (1.58%) BigQuery
19 36 (1.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 161 (7.05%) Git
2 111 (4.86%) JIRA
3 79 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.93%) TeamCity
5 34 (1.49%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.36%) GitLab
7 30 (1.31%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.18%) Selenium
9 22 (0.96%) SpecFlow
10 21 (0.92%) Maven
11 19 (0.83%) NUnit
12 18 (0.79%) JUnit
13 17 (0.74%) Postman
14 16 (0.70%) Cypress.io
15 14 (0.61%) Moq
15 14 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 14 (0.61%) Subversion
16 13 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (0.53%) Artifactory
18 11 (0.48%) CircleCI
General
1 770 (33.71%) Finance
2 494 (21.63%) Social Skills
3 356 (15.59%) Banking
4 328 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
5 253 (11.08%) Front Office
6 128 (5.60%) Investment Banking
7 126 (5.52%) Public Sector
8 74 (3.24%) Back Office
9 54 (2.36%) Retail
10 52 (2.28%) Marketing
11 48 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.36%) Financial Institution
14 21 (0.92%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.88%) Local Government
16 19 (0.83%) Billing
16 19 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.79%) Publishing
17 18 (0.79%) Retail Banking
18 13 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 755 (33.06%) Developer
2 386 (16.90%) Analyst
3 261 (11.43%) Senior
4 260 (11.38%) Data Engineer
5 155 (6.79%) Business Analyst
6 138 (6.04%) C# Developer
7 125 (5.47%) Data Analyst
8 122 (5.34%) Architect
9 96 (4.20%) .NET Developer
10 93 (4.07%) Consultant
11 89 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 87 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
13 85 (3.72%) Senior Developer
14 84 (3.68%) Python Developer
15 83 (3.63%) Lead
16 77 (3.37%) SQL Developer
17 72 (3.15%) Full Stack Developer
18 70 (3.06%) Java Developer
19 69 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
20 58 (2.54%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (15.37%) .NET
2 153 (6.70%) HTML
3 147 (6.44%) React
4 108 (4.73%) XML
5 106 (4.64%) Kafka
6 95 (4.16%) REST
7 94 (4.12%) JSON
8 85 (3.72%) CSS
9 80 (3.50%) PySpark
10 79 (3.46%) .NET Framework
11 77 (3.37%) Web Services
12 76 (3.33%) .NET Core
13 74 (3.24%) AngularJS
14 69 (3.02%) RESTful
15 67 (2.93%) Spring
16 57 (2.50%) SOAP
17 56 (2.45%) ASP.NET
17 56 (2.45%) Node.js
18 48 (2.10%) WCF
18 48 (2.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.30%) Derivative
2 111 (4.86%) Hedge funds
3 102 (4.47%) Fixed Income
4 96 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 95 (4.16%) Equities
6 68 (2.98%) Management Information System
7 67 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 51 (2.23%) Algorithms
9 46 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 43 (1.88%) Data Structures
11 43 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
12 38 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
15 33 (1.44%) Cloud Native
16 31 (1.36%) Market Risk
17 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
18 28 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
19 19 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 195 (8.54%) Windows
2 154 (6.74%) Linux
3 133 (5.82%) Unix
4 52 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (0.48%) VMS
7 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.31%) CentOS
9 6 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.13%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.088%) Android
12 2 (0.088%) Solaris
12 2 (0.088%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.044%) OS/390
13 1 (0.044%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (25.13%) Agile
2 372 (16.29%) DevOps
3 357 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
4 348 (15.24%) Analytics
5 345 (15.11%) Data Modelling
6 304 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
7 298 (13.05%) ETL
8 260 (11.38%) CI/CD
9 257 (11.25%) Software Engineering
10 216 (9.46%) Migration
11 212 (9.28%) Data Analysis
12 193 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
13 179 (7.84%) Computer Science
14 159 (6.96%) Scrum
15 149 (6.52%) Visualisation
16 148 (6.48%) Asset Management
17 147 (6.44%) Test Automation
18 138 (6.04%) Data Engineering
19 137 (6.00%) Data Science
20 136 (5.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 799 (34.98%) Python
2 472 (20.67%) C#
3 337 (14.75%) Java
4 251 (10.99%) JavaScript
5 177 (7.75%) PowerShell
6 154 (6.74%) PL/SQL
6 154 (6.74%) T-SQL
7 89 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 64 (2.80%) C++
9 54 (2.36%) VBA
10 53 (2.32%) Scala
11 45 (1.97%) Perl
11 45 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 40 (1.75%) Bash
12 40 (1.75%) R
13 32 (1.40%) VB
14 29 (1.27%) VB.NET
15 28 (1.23%) Go
16 27 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 24 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 287 (12.57%) Degree
2 180 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 141 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 90 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.84%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 20 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (0.79%) PhD
10 11 (0.48%) CISSP
11 10 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
12 8 (0.35%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.18%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.18%) PMP
14 3 (0.13%) CIMA
14 3 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.13%) ISEB
14 3 (0.13%) MCITP
14 3 (0.13%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 132 (5.78%) QA
3 31 (1.36%) MiFID
4 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.01%) EMIR
6 21 (0.92%) SLA
7 20 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 19 (0.83%) GDPR
9 18 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
10 11 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.35%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.31%) PMO
12 7 (0.31%) WCAG
13 5 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.22%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.18%) Basel III
14 4 (0.18%) GRC
15 3 (0.13%) IFRS
15 3 (0.13%) NIST
15 3 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 139 (6.09%) Docker
2 95 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.01%) IAG
4 21 (0.92%) ACF2
4 21 (0.92%) RACF
5 18 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.22%) HDFS
7 5 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.13%) vSphere
9 2 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.088%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.044%) Firmware
10 1 (0.044%) KVM
10 1 (0.044%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.044%) vCloud
10 1 (0.044%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.044%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 156 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.81%) Terraform
3 39 (1.71%) Ansible
4 23 (1.01%) Grafana
5 18 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
6 12 (0.53%) SCCM
7 11 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
9 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.31%) Control-M
11 6 (0.26%) Podman
12 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.22%) SCOM
13 4 (0.18%) Argo
13 4 (0.18%) Kibana
13 4 (0.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.13%) PingFederate
14 3 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 386 (16.90%) Oracle
2 351 (15.37%) Microsoft
3 153 (6.70%) Databricks
4 77 (3.37%) SAP
5 68 (2.98%) Google
6 60 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.75%) Citrix
7 40 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 37 (1.62%) Sybase
9 36 (1.58%) Bloomberg
10 31 (1.36%) Informatica
11 29 (1.27%) Splunk
12 28 (1.23%) IBM
13 27 (1.18%) VMware
14 25 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 23 (1.01%) NEC
16 22 (0.96%) OpenLink
17 21 (0.92%) CyberArk
18 17 (0.74%) Palantir
19 16 (0.70%) MuleSoft