SQL Contract Job Trends in Surrey

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing SQL 64 60 52
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.65% 14.18% 8.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.38% 39.22% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 40 42
10th Percentile £206 £335 £357
25th Percentile £356 £373 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +1.25% -
75th Percentile £556 £563 £575
90th Percentile £662 £578 £671
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 4
10th Percentile - - £43.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £45.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -72.31% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year +42.40% -22.76% +170.27%

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 151 153 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.92% 36.17% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 107 128
10th Percentile £204 - £257
25th Percentile £204 £203 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £588
90th Percentile £626 £575 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -4.71% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 14
10th Percentile - - £43.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £47.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -77.41% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.40 £57.32
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.13% -4.47%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

SQL job vacancy trend in Surrey

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing SQL

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 17 December 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 +9 13 £388 +89.02% 2
Camberley +7 5 £550 +4.76% 3
Redhill -4 5 £669 +30.49% 1
Woking - 4 £450 - 5
Chertsey +3 2 £300 -17.81%
Sunbury-on-Thames +2 2 - -
Leatherhead +2 1 £485 -26.79% 2
Weybridge -2 1 £475 -5.00% 3
Epsom - 1 £525 - 8
Godalming - 1 £500 -
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (10.94%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.94%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (6.25%) AWS
3 4 (6.25%) GCP
3 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.69%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.13%) Contentsquare
5 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.13%) OCI
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.56%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.56%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Skype
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.56%) VoIP
2 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.81%) MySQL
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (6.25%) Power BI
5 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.69%) Tableau
6 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.13%) Metadata
6 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.56%) Looker
7 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) JIRA
2 7 (10.94%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.56%) Git
4 1 (1.56%) JMeter
4 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.69%) Banking
2 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Electronics
3 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.13%) Marketing
3 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.13%) Retail
4 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
2 11 (17.19%) Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Messaging Support
3 7 (10.94%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) QA Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Support Analyst
4 5 (7.81%) Lead
4 5 (7.81%) Technical Support
5 4 (6.25%) DBA
5 4 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.69%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Data Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (7.81%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (4.69%) ADO
4 3 (4.69%) PySpark
5 2 (3.13%) Next.js
6 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) Blazor
6 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.56%) gRPC
6 1 (1.56%) NgRx
6 1 (1.56%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Redux
6 1 (1.56%) REST
6 1 (1.56%) RESTful
6 1 (1.56%) WebAssembly
6 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (3.13%) Replication
3 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Agile
2 26 (40.63%) Acceptance Criteria
3 21 (32.81%) Data Integration
3 21 (32.81%) Software Engineering
4 19 (29.69%) Scrum
4 19 (29.69%) TDD
4 19 (29.69%) Workflow
5 18 (28.13%) CAFM
5 18 (28.13%) Test Strategy
6 16 (25.00%) Validation
7 14 (21.88%) DevOps
8 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
9 11 (17.19%) ITIL
10 10 (15.63%) Analytics
10 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 10 (15.63%) User Experience
11 9 (14.06%) Data Strategy
11 9 (14.06%) ERP
11 9 (14.06%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (28.13%) VB
2 16 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (20.31%) PL/SQL
4 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.38%) Java
5 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.81%) Perl
7 3 (4.69%) C#
8 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.56%) Julia
9 1 (1.56%) R
9 1 (1.56%) Tcl
9 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (10.94%) OCA
1 7 (10.94%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.75%) QA
2 10 (15.63%) GDPR
3 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.94%) SCOM
2 4 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.56%) Foglight
3 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.56%) SCCM
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Oracle
2 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.94%) Cisco
3 7 (10.94%) Remedy
3 7 (10.94%) Splunk
4 4 (6.25%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Adobe
6 2 (3.13%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.13%) Informatica
6 2 (3.13%) Sybase
7 1 (1.56%) Citrix
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.56%) NetApp
7 1 (1.56%) RedGate
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) TikTok
7 1 (1.56%) VMware