SQL Contracts in South London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 28 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.45% 9.93% 15.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.46% 26.42% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 53
10th Percentile £410 £231 £413
25th Percentile £425 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £450 £588
90th Percentile £678 £508 £678
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 106 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 25.62% 37.59% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 80 156
10th Percentile £400 £338 £425
25th Percentile £436 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £625
90th Percentile £838 £675 £700
London median daily rate £565 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -3.95% -1.96% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £40.82 -
25th Percentile £65.63 £48.92 £40.96
Median hourly rate £68.75 £55.00 £45.23
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +21.61% +80.90%
75th Percentile £71.88 £55.59 £51.02
90th Percentile - £65.84 £52.22
London median hourly rate £48.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +9.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in South London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Bromley -4 5 £575 +39.39% 5
Croydon -1 2 £450 +18.03% 3
SQL
London

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 2 (28.57%) J2EE
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft
3 1 (14.29%) Google