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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 425 412
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -40
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Developer 167 277 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.52% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 225 424
10th Percentile £381 £360 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £575
90th Percentile £747 £702 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +12.50%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 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 1 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 -15 139 £500 -4.76% 47
Work from Home +65 87 £494 -8.14% 21
London +34 81 £600 +9.09% 17
UK excluding London +5 72 £475 -2.06% 30
South East 0 21 £513 -6.82% 11
Midlands +21 19 £488 -7.14% 9
West Midlands +11 15 £500 -6.98% 8
North of England +11 14 £450 +2.27% 4
Scotland +38 8 £463 -2.63% 3
Wales +25 8 £486 +29.67%
Yorkshire +21 7 £450 -5.26% 2
North West +8 7 £475 +9.83% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £388 +9.15% 1
East of England +1 4 £300 -45.45% 2
South West -5 1 £225 -43.75% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 162 (97.01%) SQL
2 62 (37.13%) SQL Server
3 57 (34.13%) Oracle
4 45 (26.95%) PL/SQL
5 43 (25.75%) Agile
6 32 (19.16%) Finance
7 30 (17.96%) Unix
8 29 (17.37%) Azure
9 28 (16.77%) C#
10 26 (15.57%) Data Modelling
10 26 (15.57%) DevOps
11 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
12 24 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (13.77%) Java
14 22 (13.17%) .NET
14 22 (13.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (12.57%) Oracle Database
15 21 (12.57%) Scrum
16 19 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (11.38%) T-SQL
17 18 (10.78%) SDLC
17 18 (10.78%) Social Skills
18 17 (10.18%) Python
19 16 (9.58%) Migration
19 16 (9.58%) Banking
19 16 (9.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 16 (9.58%) Software Engineering
19 16 (9.58%) Git
19 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (9.58%) Public Sector

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 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.60%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.37%) Azure
2 15 (8.98%) AWS
3 14 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.99%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.99%) OCI
6 5 (2.99%) PaaS
6 5 (2.99%) Serverless
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.40%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.80%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.20%) GCP
9 2 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (37.13%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 21 (12.57%) Oracle Database
4 19 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (9.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (7.78%) Power BI
7 12 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.59%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.40%) Data Lake
12 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.80%) Impala
13 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database 11g
14 2 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Git
2 9 (5.39%) JIRA
3 7 (4.19%) Maven
4 6 (3.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (2.99%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (2.40%) Ant
6 4 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.20%) JUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Mockito
9 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.60%) GoCD
9 1 (0.60%) NUnit
9 1 (0.60%) Postman
General
1 32 (19.16%) Finance
2 18 (10.78%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.58%) Banking
3 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.99%) Retail Banking
6 4 (2.40%) Back Office
7 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Local Government
8 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Electronics
9 1 (0.60%) Front Office
9 1 (0.60%) Law
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.17%) .NET
2 9 (5.39%) Hibernate
2 9 (5.39%) JPA
3 7 (4.19%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.59%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.99%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.80%) React
7 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.20%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.20%) jQuery
7 2 (1.20%) Kafka
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.20%) REST
7 2 (1.20%) Spring
7 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.60%) Ajax
8 1 (0.60%) JSON
8 1 (0.60%) Node.js
8 1 (0.60%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.79%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.40%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.80%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.20%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (1.20%) Derivative
7 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.60%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.60%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) VAX
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.96%) Unix
2 7 (4.19%) Linux
3 2 (1.20%) VMS
3 2 (1.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.60%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.75%) Agile
2 26 (15.57%) Data Modelling
2 26 (15.57%) DevOps
3 24 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (12.57%) Scrum
5 18 (10.78%) SDLC
6 16 (9.58%) Migration
6 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (9.58%) Software Engineering
7 15 (8.98%) Software Testing
7 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
8 14 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (7.78%) ETL
9 13 (7.78%) Physical Data Model
10 12 (7.19%) TDD
11 11 (6.59%) OO
12 10 (5.99%) CI/CD
12 10 (5.99%) Database Tuning
12 10 (5.99%) System Testing
13 9 (5.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 162 (97.01%) SQL
2 45 (26.95%) PL/SQL
3 28 (16.77%) C#
4 23 (13.77%) Java
5 19 (11.38%) T-SQL
6 17 (10.18%) Python
7 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.59%) Perl
9 9 (5.39%) Bash
9 9 (5.39%) Bourne shell
9 9 (5.39%) Korn
10 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.20%) C
12 2 (1.20%) VB
13 1 (0.60%) COBOL
13 1 (0.60%) DCL
13 1 (0.60%) R
13 1 (0.60%) VBA
13 1 (0.60%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (8.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.40%) MiFID
2 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.60%) EMIR
3 1 (0.60%) FATCA
3 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.20%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Control-M
Vendors
1 57 (34.13%) Oracle
2 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.59%) Sparx
4 3 (1.80%) RedGate
5 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.20%) SAP
5 2 (1.20%) Sybase
6 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.60%) Databricks
6 1 (0.60%) Google
6 1 (0.60%) Infor
6 1 (0.60%) Informatica
6 1 (0.60%) Mercator
6 1 (0.60%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.60%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.60%) Workday