SQL Contracts in Surrey

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 35 66 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 11.99% 11.38% 13.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% 47.48% 47.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 55 70
10th Percentile £280 £360 £411
25th Percentile £344 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £433 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -17.62% -
75th Percentile £538 £531 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £589
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50.25
25th Percentile - - £50.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £55.63
90th Percentile - - £56.75
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.11 £25.16
% change year-on-year +8.62% +130.97% +17.02%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 85 139 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.11% 23.97% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 109 156
10th Percentile £320 £271 £393
25th Percentile £400 £378 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -15.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £594
90th Percentile £625 £678 £638
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +1.80% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £50.50
25th Percentile - £31.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -40.91% +26.03%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £59.13 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +7.27% +15.79%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 April 2025. 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
Staines +10 9 £305 -54.81% 1
Reigate +2 4 £475 -9.52% 5
Leatherhead 0 3 £650 +52.94% 5
Camberley - 3 £525 - 1
Chertsey +2 2 £365 +14.06% 2
Weybridge +1 2 £425 -31.45% 1
Guildford 0 2 £450 -10.00% 5
Redhill -3 2 - -
Tadworth - 1 - -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (11.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Solr
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.71%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Google Ads
5 2 (5.71%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) AWS
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Power BI
2 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (17.14%) Tableau
4 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
4 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (11.43%) MySQL
6 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.71%) DTS
7 2 (5.71%) Looker
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.86%) Big Data
8 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
2 5 (14.29%) Maven
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.86%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Marketing
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Scientist
4 3 (8.57%) DBA
4 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) SQL DBA
4 3 (8.57%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Digital Marketing Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) IT Support
5 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Pensions Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) JSON
1 6 (17.14%) React
1 6 (17.14%) REST
2 4 (11.43%) Java EE
2 4 (11.43%) XML
3 3 (8.57%) .NET
3 3 (8.57%) RESTful
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
4 2 (5.71%) Ajax
4 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.71%) CSS
4 2 (5.71%) HTML
4 2 (5.71%) JAXB
4 2 (5.71%) JAX-RS
4 2 (5.71%) JAX-WS
4 2 (5.71%) LAMP
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
4 2 (5.71%) XSD
4 2 (5.71%) XSL
4 2 (5.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Clustering
1 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (8.57%) Replication
2 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (31.43%) Analytics
2 11 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (22.86%) Data Modelling
4 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
4 6 (17.14%) Decision-Making
4 6 (17.14%) ITIL
5 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 5 (14.29%) Data Science
5 5 (14.29%) Microservices
5 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (11.43%) Agile
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (11.43%) Service Management
6 4 (11.43%) SOA
6 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) Java
3 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (8.57%) R
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.71%) PHP
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) XPath
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) Go
7 1 (2.86%) Perl
7 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.86%) OCP
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) GMP
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) Adobe
3 3 (8.57%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) TikTok
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) BMC
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) VMware