SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,479 2,201 3,313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.26% 9.61% 10.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.55% 33.82% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,589 2,306
10th Percentile £304 £324 £313
25th Percentile £385 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £550
90th Percentile £638 £656 £638
UK median daily rate £534 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -0.65% +1.42% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 56 91
10th Percentile £22.61 £18.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.36 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +86.01% +10.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £48.38
90th Percentile £61.19 £76.88 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £43.75 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +42.86% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,842 6,508 8,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.77% 28.41% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,270 4,571 6,063
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.55%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 326 330
10th Percentile £37.55 £24.31 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.01 £29.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +26.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England -4 404 £475 -2.06% 459
South East -12 353 £475 -7.32% 287
North West -2 243 £475 - 254
Midlands -4 230 £410 -8.89% 339
Scotland 0 211 £450 -7.69% 110
South West -14 160 £538 +9.69% 185
West Midlands -5 153 £425 -15.00% 204
Yorkshire -4 128 £495 -2.94% 167
East of England -17 80 £450 +5.88% 129
East Midlands 0 76 £400 - 135
North East +19 33 £475 -5.00% 46
Wales +11 33 £450 -16.67% 43
Northern Ireland -8 13 £400 -11.11% 29
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 48 (3.25%) Confluence
1 48 (3.25%) SAS
2 41 (2.77%) Apache
3 39 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 31 (2.10%) Apache Spark
6 26 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.88%) IIS
8 11 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.47%) CMS
9 7 (0.47%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.41%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.14%) nginx
13 1 (0.068%) Jadu
Applications
1 108 (7.30%) Chatbot
2 66 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.54%) CATIA
5 8 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.54%) SPSS
6 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.068%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.068%) Trello
8 1 (0.068%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Teamcenter
2 11 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Aareon QL
3 8 (0.54%) DELMIA
3 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle HRMS
6 4 (0.27%) FastStats
6 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.27%) Unica
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 339 (22.92%) Azure
2 285 (19.27%) Power Platform
3 206 (13.93%) AWS
4 92 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 89 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (5.41%) Serverless
7 60 (4.06%) Snowflake
8 54 (3.65%) Amazon S3
9 49 (3.31%) GCP
10 47 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
11 41 (2.77%) Power Automate
12 40 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 32 (2.16%) GitHub
14 31 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
15 29 (1.96%) PowerApps
16 28 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (1.83%) OpenShift
18 26 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.10%) DNS
2 28 (1.89%) DHCP
3 26 (1.76%) Firewall
4 16 (1.08%) SAN
4 16 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.81%) Network Security
6 11 (0.74%) BGP
6 11 (0.74%) VPN
7 10 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.54%) AMQP
8 8 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
8 8 (0.54%) FTP
8 8 (0.54%) MPLS
8 8 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
9 7 (0.47%) Skype
10 6 (0.41%) LAN
10 6 (0.41%) WAN
11 5 (0.34%) NAS
12 4 (0.27%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (18.12%) Power BI
2 240 (16.23%) SQL Server
3 141 (9.53%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (7.17%) Tableau
5 99 (6.69%) Relational Database
6 84 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 82 (5.54%) Data Lake
8 78 (5.27%) NoSQL
9 77 (5.21%) Oracle Database
10 61 (4.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 53 (3.58%) Big Data
12 52 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 49 (3.31%) MySQL
14 43 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
15 35 (2.37%) MongoDB
15 35 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 34 (2.30%) BigQuery
17 31 (2.10%) Metadata
18 27 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 114 (7.71%) JIRA
2 105 (7.10%) Git
3 57 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.03%) GitLab
5 28 (1.89%) Visual Studio
6 27 (1.83%) Oracle APEX
7 26 (1.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 20 (1.35%) Postman
9 17 (1.15%) Selenium
10 15 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.95%) JUnit
11 14 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
11 14 (0.95%) TestRail
12 13 (0.88%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 11 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
14 9 (0.61%) Robot Framework
15 8 (0.54%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.54%) webpack
16 7 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 306 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 217 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (12.44%) Finance
4 93 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.12%) Retail
6 50 (3.38%) Banking
7 39 (2.64%) Marketing
8 32 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.42%) Military
12 18 (1.22%) Legal
12 18 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (1.01%) Automotive
13 15 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.88%) Local Government
15 12 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.68%) Billing
16 10 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 545 (36.85%) Developer
2 203 (13.73%) Analyst
3 134 (9.06%) Senior
4 127 (8.59%) Software Developer
5 125 (8.45%) Data Engineer
6 115 (7.78%) Data Analyst
7 76 (5.14%) Architect
8 71 (4.80%) SQL Developer
9 59 (3.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 59 (3.99%) DBA
10 54 (3.65%) Lead
11 47 (3.18%) Test Engineer
12 43 (2.91%) SQL DBA
13 39 (2.64%) Java Developer
13 39 (2.64%) Power BI Developer
13 39 (2.64%) Senior Developer
14 38 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
15 37 (2.50%) Consultant
16 35 (2.37%) Oracle Developer
17 34 (2.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (12.04%) HTML
2 110 (7.44%) .NET
3 87 (5.88%) REST
4 65 (4.39%) CSS
5 63 (4.26%) Spring
6 59 (3.99%) RESTful
7 58 (3.92%) AngularJS
8 54 (3.65%) Spring Boot
9 49 (3.31%) XML
10 45 (3.04%) React
11 40 (2.70%) Kafka
12 29 (1.96%) SOAP
13 27 (1.83%) JSON
14 24 (1.62%) .NET Core
15 23 (1.56%) Node.js
16 22 (1.49%) Web Services
17 18 (1.22%) AWS CDK
18 16 (1.08%) .NET Framework
18 16 (1.08%) PySpark
19 15 (1.01%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 39 (2.64%) Product Ownership
2 28 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (1.89%) PKI
3 27 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 26 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (1.76%) Management Information System
5 25 (1.69%) Replication
6 23 (1.56%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.28%) Clustering
10 18 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.01%) NHS
12 14 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 13 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (0.88%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 140 (9.47%) Windows
2 89 (6.02%) Unix
3 80 (5.41%) Linux
3 80 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 24 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.42%) VMS
7 15 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.81%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.54%) Solaris
11 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.34%) AIX
12 5 (0.34%) Android
13 4 (0.27%) Data ONTAP
13 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.20%) CentOS
15 2 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (22.18%) Agile
2 312 (21.10%) Business Intelligence
3 211 (14.27%) Data Modelling
4 195 (13.18%) Software Engineering
5 194 (13.12%) Analytics
6 193 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (12.37%) DevOps
8 179 (12.10%) ETL
9 167 (11.29%) Migration
10 145 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 143 (9.67%) CI/CD
12 121 (8.18%) Code Quality
13 118 (7.98%) Scrum
13 118 (7.98%) Visualisation
14 108 (7.30%) Conversational UI
15 93 (6.29%) Data Analysis
16 84 (5.68%) Data Migration
17 83 (5.61%) Test Automation
18 78 (5.27%) Computer Science
18 78 (5.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 378 (25.56%) Python
2 236 (15.96%) C#
3 209 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 165 (11.16%) Java
5 144 (9.74%) PL/SQL
6 73 (4.94%) T-SQL
7 62 (4.19%) PowerShell
8 53 (3.58%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.77%) Shell Script
10 32 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 31 (2.10%) Bash
11 31 (2.10%) C
12 29 (1.96%) R
13 23 (1.56%) C++
14 21 (1.42%) Go
15 16 (1.08%) PHP
16 15 (1.01%) Scala
16 15 (1.01%) VB
17 11 (0.74%) VBA
18 10 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 239 (16.16%) Degree
2 186 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 126 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (1.62%) MCSE
8 21 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.15%) MCSA
12 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.47%) ISEB
14 7 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 5 (0.34%) PMP
15 5 (0.34%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.27%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 68 (4.60%) QA
3 22 (1.49%) SLA
4 21 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.01%) GDPR
5 15 (1.01%) HL7
6 8 (0.54%) GxP
7 5 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.34%) GAMP
8 4 (0.27%) IFRS
8 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.14%) PMO
10 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.068%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (6.09%) Docker
2 89 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.34%) NFS
7 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.27%) GPFS
8 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) HDFS
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.068%) ACF2
11 1 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.068%) IAG
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.068%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (3.99%) Terraform
2 58 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.43%) Ansible
4 33 (2.23%) Grafana
5 13 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.81%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
8 7 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
9 6 (0.41%) SCCM
10 5 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (0.34%) HP Data Protector
10 5 (0.34%) Kibana
10 5 (0.34%) NetBackup
10 5 (0.34%) SCOM
11 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.27%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 4 (0.27%) WSUS
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
Vendors
1 242 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 235 (15.89%) Oracle
3 108 (7.30%) PayPal
4 57 (3.85%) Databricks
5 55 (3.72%) VMware
6 47 (3.18%) Google
7 38 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.23%) SAP
9 26 (1.76%) Informatica
10 22 (1.49%) Splunk
11 21 (1.42%) Avaloq
12 16 (1.08%) Alteryx
13 13 (0.88%) IFS
14 12 (0.81%) EMC
14 12 (0.81%) IBM
14 12 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 12 (0.81%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.68%) Cisco
16 9 (0.61%) Brocade
17 8 (0.54%) Siemens