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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 2,327 3,427 5,269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.18% 13.56% 13.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.17% 33.85% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,519 4,003
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £540 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -1.82% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 35
10th Percentile £25.99 £22.52 £27.60
25th Percentile £40.88 £35.13 £35.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +16.67% +4.90%
75th Percentile £51.75 £82.75 £58.63
90th Percentile £53.86 £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 6,616 10,123 16,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.49% 40.06% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 7,629 12,521
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% - +11.11%
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 74 107
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £31.15
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £77.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.91%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -2 342 £575 -4.17% 123
East London +5 36 £540 +9.09% 12
West London +17 35 £450 -14.29% 38
South London -2 26 £483 -3.50% 10
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 84 (3.61%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.48%) Apache
3 72 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 43 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.20%) IIS
6 21 (0.90%) SAS
7 18 (0.77%) Confluence
8 16 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.43%) MTS
10 9 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 8 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
12 6 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.17%) CMS
14 4 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.17%) MQSeries
Applications
1 117 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 27 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.13%) SPSS
9 2 (0.086%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.086%) Mingle
10 1 (0.043%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.043%) Elementor
Business Applications
1 42 (1.80%) Endur
2 26 (1.12%) Aladdin
3 21 (0.90%) NEC Housing
4 17 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.73%) Dynamics GP
5 14 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
6 12 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.43%) EuroRunner
7 10 (0.43%) ION MarketView
8 9 (0.39%) Aligne
9 8 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 6 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
12 5 (0.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 694 (29.82%) Azure
2 486 (20.89%) AWS
3 270 (11.60%) Power Platform
4 146 (6.27%) Azure DevOps
5 132 (5.67%) Serverless
6 120 (5.16%) GCP
7 101 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 86 (3.70%) GitHub
9 78 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
10 76 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 65 (2.79%) Snowflake
12 56 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 52 (2.23%) PaaS
14 48 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 43 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 43 (1.85%) PowerApps
16 39 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.55%) Azure Functions
17 36 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.33%) Internet
2 16 (0.69%) Firewall
3 10 (0.43%) DNS
3 10 (0.43%) SSH
3 10 (0.43%) VPN
4 9 (0.39%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (0.26%) DHCP
5 6 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.21%) FTP
6 5 (0.21%) HTTP
6 5 (0.21%) WAN
7 4 (0.17%) LAN
8 3 (0.13%) SAN
8 3 (0.13%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.13%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.086%) Broadband
9 2 (0.086%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (0.086%) MPLS
9 2 (0.086%) Skype
9 2 (0.086%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (18.61%) SQL Server
2 260 (11.17%) Power BI
3 248 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
4 225 (9.67%) NoSQL
5 147 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 134 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
7 123 (5.29%) Big Data
8 122 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 120 (5.16%) Tableau
10 99 (4.25%) Oracle Database
11 98 (4.21%) Data Lake
11 98 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 78 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 61 (2.62%) MySQL
14 60 (2.58%) MongoDB
15 59 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 44 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
17 38 (1.63%) DynamoDB
18 37 (1.59%) RDBMS
19 36 (1.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 165 (7.09%) Git
2 112 (4.81%) JIRA
3 82 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 67 (2.88%) TeamCity
5 42 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.33%) GitLab
7 30 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.16%) Selenium
9 21 (0.90%) SpecFlow
10 20 (0.86%) Maven
10 20 (0.86%) NUnit
11 17 (0.73%) JUnit
11 17 (0.73%) Postman
12 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 14 (0.60%) Subversion
15 13 (0.56%) Artifactory
15 13 (0.56%) Moq
15 13 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
General
1 787 (33.82%) Finance
2 502 (21.57%) Social Skills
3 370 (15.90%) Banking
4 333 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
5 260 (11.17%) Front Office
6 135 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 126 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 72 (3.09%) Back Office
9 55 (2.36%) Retail
10 54 (2.32%) Marketing
11 47 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 31 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.86%) Billing
14 20 (0.86%) Local Government
15 19 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.82%) Retail Banking
16 18 (0.77%) Publishing
17 13 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 773 (33.22%) Developer
2 394 (16.93%) Analyst
3 274 (11.77%) Senior
4 262 (11.26%) Data Engineer
5 158 (6.79%) Business Analyst
6 138 (5.93%) C# Developer
7 127 (5.46%) Architect
8 124 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 99 (4.25%) .NET Developer
10 97 (4.17%) Senior Developer
11 93 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 91 (3.91%) Consultant
13 88 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
13 88 (3.78%) Python Developer
14 86 (3.70%) Lead
15 77 (3.31%) SQL Developer
16 75 (3.22%) Full Stack Developer
17 72 (3.09%) Java Developer
18 69 (2.97%) Financial Analyst
19 59 (2.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 365 (15.69%) .NET
2 165 (7.09%) HTML
3 149 (6.40%) React
4 109 (4.68%) XML
5 106 (4.56%) Kafka
6 96 (4.13%) REST
7 95 (4.08%) JSON
8 89 (3.82%) .NET Framework
8 89 (3.82%) CSS
9 83 (3.57%) PySpark
10 78 (3.35%) .NET Core
11 75 (3.22%) Web Services
12 73 (3.14%) AngularJS
13 71 (3.05%) RESTful
13 71 (3.05%) Spring
14 68 (2.92%) ASP.NET
15 58 (2.49%) SOAP
16 57 (2.45%) Node.js
17 50 (2.15%) Middleware
18 49 (2.11%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 148 (6.36%) Derivative
2 115 (4.94%) Hedge funds
3 109 (4.68%) Fixed Income
4 102 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 101 (4.34%) Equities
6 74 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 68 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 53 (2.28%) Algorithms
9 49 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 44 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 44 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
10 44 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 39 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
14 31 (1.33%) Cloud Native
15 30 (1.29%) Market Risk
16 29 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 202 (8.68%) Windows
2 158 (6.79%) Linux
3 137 (5.89%) Unix
4 54 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (0.47%) VMS
8 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.30%) CentOS
10 6 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.17%) Android
13 3 (0.13%) OpenVMS
13 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.086%) AIX
14 2 (0.086%) Solaris
14 2 (0.086%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.043%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (25.40%) Agile
2 385 (16.54%) DevOps
3 359 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
4 358 (15.38%) Analytics
5 346 (14.87%) Data Modelling
6 307 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (13.06%) ETL
8 264 (11.35%) CI/CD
9 262 (11.26%) Software Engineering
10 223 (9.58%) Migration
11 212 (9.11%) Data Analysis
12 195 (8.38%) Data Pipeline
13 181 (7.78%) Computer Science
14 165 (7.09%) Scrum
15 156 (6.70%) Asset Management
16 151 (6.49%) Visualisation
17 148 (6.36%) Test Automation
18 141 (6.06%) Data Engineering
19 140 (6.02%) Data Science
19 140 (6.02%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 808 (34.72%) Python
2 483 (20.76%) C#
3 342 (14.70%) Java
4 266 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 178 (7.65%) PowerShell
6 163 (7.00%) T-SQL
7 161 (6.92%) PL/SQL
8 96 (4.13%) TypeScript
9 62 (2.66%) C++
10 58 (2.49%) VBA
11 55 (2.36%) Scala
12 48 (2.06%) Shell Script
13 46 (1.98%) Perl
14 43 (1.85%) Bash
15 40 (1.72%) R
16 38 (1.63%) VB.NET
17 34 (1.46%) VB
18 27 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 26 (1.12%) Go
20 24 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 294 (12.63%) Degree
2 182 (7.82%) Security Cleared
3 143 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 90 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 33 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 20 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (0.77%) PhD
10 11 (0.47%) CISSP
10 11 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
11 10 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.34%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.17%) 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
1 176 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 136 (5.84%) QA
3 31 (1.33%) MiFID
4 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 23 (0.99%) EMIR
6 21 (0.90%) GDPR
6 21 (0.90%) SLA
7 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 18 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
9 12 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.30%) PMO
12 6 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.26%) WCAG
13 5 (0.21%) ISO 15022
14 4 (0.17%) Basel III
14 4 (0.17%) GRC
14 4 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (0.17%) NIST
15 3 (0.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 140 (6.02%) Docker
2 97 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 23 (0.99%) IAG
4 21 (0.90%) ACF2
4 21 (0.90%) RACF
5 19 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.21%) HDFS
8 5 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.13%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.086%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.043%) Firmware
11 1 (0.043%) KVM
11 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.043%) vCloud
11 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.043%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 158 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 87 (3.74%) Terraform
3 41 (1.76%) Ansible
4 23 (0.99%) Grafana
5 18 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
6 12 (0.52%) SCCM
7 11 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.39%) BladeLogic
8 9 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.30%) Control-M
10 6 (0.26%) Podman
11 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.21%) SCOM
12 4 (0.17%) Argo
12 4 (0.17%) Kibana
12 4 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.13%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 396 (17.02%) Oracle
2 363 (15.60%) Microsoft
3 154 (6.62%) Databricks
4 80 (3.44%) SAP
5 68 (2.92%) Google
6 61 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 41 (1.76%) Bloomberg
7 41 (1.76%) Citrix
8 40 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 39 (1.68%) Sybase
10 31 (1.33%) Informatica
11 30 (1.29%) IBM
11 30 (1.29%) VMware
12 29 (1.25%) Splunk
13 25 (1.07%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.03%) NEC
15 22 (0.95%) OpenLink
16 21 (0.90%) CyberArk
17 17 (0.73%) Palantir
18 16 (0.69%) MuleSoft