SQL Developer Contracts

SQL Developer
UK

The median SQL Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 421 418
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -47
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 157 285 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.54% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 225 417
10th Percentile £381 £359 £345
25th Percentile £425 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £42.02
75th Percentile - - £52.14
90th Percentile - - £58.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +123.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Developer in the UK

SQL Developer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -9 135 £510 -2.86% 39
Work from Home +58 84 £500 -4.76% 25
London +17 79 £600 +9.09% 12
UK excluding London +3 65 £450 -5.26% 29
South East +6 21 £513 -6.82% 8
Midlands +18 18 £488 -2.50% 8
West Midlands +8 14 £500 -6.98% 7
North of England +10 12 £450 +2.27% 5
Scotland +41 8 £463 -2.63% 3
North West 0 7 £475 +9.83% 1
Yorkshire +13 5 £450 -7.22% 2
East of England -2 5 £300 -45.45% 4
East Midlands +13 4 £388 +9.15% 1
Wales +21 3 £390 +4.00%
South West +2 1 £225 -43.75% 1

SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SQL Developer in the job title.

1 153 (97.45%) SQL
2 63 (40.13%) SQL Server
3 56 (35.67%) Oracle
4 45 (28.66%) PL/SQL
5 41 (26.11%) Agile
6 30 (19.11%) Finance
7 29 (18.47%) Unix
8 28 (17.83%) Azure
9 26 (16.56%) DevOps
9 26 (16.56%) Data Modelling
10 25 (15.92%) Microsoft
10 25 (15.92%) C#
11 23 (14.65%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (14.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (13.38%) Java
14 20 (12.74%) Oracle Database
15 19 (12.10%) Scrum
16 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (11.46%) .NET
17 17 (10.83%) Banking
17 17 (10.83%) SDLC
17 17 (10.83%) Social Skills
18 16 (10.19%) Software Engineering
18 16 (10.19%) Migration
18 16 (10.19%) T-SQL
18 16 (10.19%) Python
18 16 (10.19%) Unit Testing
19 15 (9.55%) Git
19 15 (9.55%) AWS
19 15 (9.55%) Problem-Solving

SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.64%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) Epicor Tropos
1 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 15 (9.55%) AWS
3 14 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (7.64%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.18%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.18%) OCI
6 5 (3.18%) PaaS
6 5 (3.18%) Serverless
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.91%) IaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.27%) Apigee
9 2 (1.27%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.27%) GCP
9 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (40.13%) SQL Server
2 22 (14.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 20 (12.74%) Oracle Database
4 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (8.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (8.28%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (7.64%) Power BI
8 10 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.82%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.91%) Impala
13 3 (1.91%) Oracle Database 11g
14 2 (1.27%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 15 (9.55%) Git
2 8 (5.10%) JIRA
3 7 (4.46%) Maven
4 6 (3.82%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.18%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (2.55%) Ant
7 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.91%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.27%) JUnit
8 2 (1.27%) Mockito
9 1 (0.64%) GoCD
9 1 (0.64%) NUnit
9 1 (0.64%) Postman
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 30 (19.11%) Finance
2 17 (10.83%) Banking
2 17 (10.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.18%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.18%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.55%) Back Office
7 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Front Office
8 2 (1.27%) Local Government
8 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.46%) .NET
2 9 (5.73%) Hibernate
2 9 (5.73%) JPA
3 7 (4.46%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.18%) .NET Core
4 5 (3.18%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.27%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.27%) HTML
5 2 (1.27%) jQuery
5 2 (1.27%) Kafka
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.27%) React
5 2 (1.27%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) Spring
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.64%) Ajax
6 1 (0.64%) JSON
6 1 (0.64%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.55%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.91%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.27%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.27%) Derivative
7 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.64%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.47%) Unix
2 6 (3.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) VMS
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.11%) Agile
2 26 (16.56%) Data Modelling
2 26 (16.56%) DevOps
3 23 (14.65%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (12.10%) Scrum
5 17 (10.83%) SDLC
6 16 (10.19%) Migration
6 16 (10.19%) Software Engineering
6 16 (10.19%) Unit Testing
7 15 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (8.92%) ETL
8 14 (8.92%) Software Testing
8 14 (8.92%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (8.28%) Physical Data Model
10 12 (7.64%) TDD
11 10 (6.37%) CI/CD
11 10 (6.37%) Database Tuning
11 10 (6.37%) OO
12 9 (5.73%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (5.73%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (97.45%) SQL
2 45 (28.66%) PL/SQL
3 25 (15.92%) C#
4 21 (13.38%) Java
5 16 (10.19%) Python
5 16 (10.19%) T-SQL
6 11 (7.01%) Perl
7 9 (5.73%) Bash
7 9 (5.73%) Bourne shell
7 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.73%) Korn
8 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.27%) C
10 2 (1.27%) VB
11 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.64%) R
11 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.64%) VBA
11 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (8.92%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.01%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.91%) Degree
4 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.55%) MiFID
2 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.64%) EMIR
3 1 (0.64%) FATCA
3 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (1.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (35.67%) Oracle
2 25 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.82%) Sparx
4 3 (1.91%) Sybase
5 2 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.64%) Databricks
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Infor
6 1 (0.64%) Informatica
6 1 (0.64%) Mercator
6 1 (0.64%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.64%) Workday