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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing SQL 62 61 53
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.90% 12.73% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.06% 35.47% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 43
10th Percentile £204 £204 £359
25th Percentile £300 £356 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £547 £556 £525
90th Percentile £671 £575 £575
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 £13.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +307.41% -73.00% +146.91%

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 144 172 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.92% 35.91% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 119 148
10th Percentile - - £295
25th Percentile £204 £203 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £506
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -8.64% -3.57%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £600
90th Percentile £625 £578 £672
South East median daily rate £480 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £28.69 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +37.61% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - £81.25 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +6 11 £375 +82.93% 1
Camberley +6 4 £500 -4.76%
Redhill -3 4 £669 +30.49% 5
Woking - 4 £450 - 6
Chertsey +8 2 £300 -29.41%
Sunbury-on-Thames 0 2 - -
Weybridge -1 1 £475 -5.00%
Epsom - 1 £525 - 1
Reigate - 1 - - 5
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 (11.29%) Mattermost
1 7 (11.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (6.45%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) GCP
3 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.84%) Adobe Analytics
4 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.23%) Contentsquare
5 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.61%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.06%) MySQL
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.45%) Power BI
4 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (4.84%) Tableau
5 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.61%) Looker
6 1 (1.61%) Metadata
6 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) GitLab
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) JMeter
3 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 18 (29.03%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Banking
3 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.84%) Retail
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Electronics
4 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.23%) Marketing
4 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Advertising
5 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Developer
2 13 (20.97%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Messaging Support
3 7 (11.29%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Support Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
4 5 (8.06%) QA Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Technical Support
5 3 (4.84%) DBA
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (4.84%) QA Leader
6 2 (3.23%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Head of Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Head of Data Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Pensions Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Senior
6 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) .NET
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.23%) Next.js
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.61%) ADO
4 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.61%) Blazor
4 1 (1.61%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.61%) gRPC
4 1 (1.61%) NgRx
4 1 (1.61%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) Redux
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.23%) Replication
3 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.19%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Unix
3 5 (8.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) Acceptance Criteria
3 23 (37.10%) Data Integration
4 21 (33.87%) Software Engineering
5 19 (30.65%) TDD
5 19 (30.65%) Workflow
6 18 (29.03%) CAFM
6 18 (29.03%) Scrum
6 18 (29.03%) Test Strategy
7 14 (22.58%) Validation
8 11 (17.74%) DevOps
9 10 (16.13%) ITIL
9 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.52%) Analytics
11 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
11 8 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 7 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (11.29%) Data Strategy
12 7 (11.29%) QA Automation
12 7 (11.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) VB
2 15 (24.19%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) PL/SQL
4 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.68%) Java
5 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.06%) Perl
7 2 (3.23%) C#
7 2 (3.23%) R
8 1 (1.61%) Julia
8 1 (1.61%) Korn
8 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (8.06%) OCA
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) GDPR
3 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (11.29%) SCOM
2 3 (4.84%) Data Guard
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) Cisco
3 7 (11.29%) Remedy
3 7 (11.29%) Splunk
4 4 (6.45%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Adobe
6 2 (3.23%) Sybase
7 1 (1.61%) RedGate
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) TikTok