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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 45 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 10.39% 12.83% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.43% 41.90% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 43
10th Percentile £381 £271 £377
25th Percentile £413 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £556
90th Percentile £600 £659 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £55.94
% change year-on-year -13.72% +13.95% +152.44%

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 127 105 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.33% 30.61% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 69 106
10th Percentile £204 £217 £305
25th Percentile £363 £365 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% -8.10%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £662 £657 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 8
10th Percentile £35.00 - £40.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £52.02
Median hourly rate £60.00 £13.50 £71.90
Median % change year-on-year +344.44% -81.22% +27.82%
75th Percentile £67.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%

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 27 February 2026.

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 27 February 2026. 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 -3 9 £500 +72.41% 1
Redhill -6 7 £619 +54.69% 2
Epsom - 6 £425 - 4
Reigate +8 4 - - 3
Weybridge -6 3 £475 +11.76% 4
Woking - 3 £475 - 5
Guildford -2 2 £438 -2.78% 7
Camberley -1 1 £550 +4.76% 2
Leatherhead -2 1 £485 -25.38% 1
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 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) Mattermost
2 3 (6.67%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) Serverless
3 7 (15.56%) Tricentis Tosca
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
4 6 (13.33%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Storage
5 5 (11.11%) GitHub
5 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.89%) AWS
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.44%) OCI
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Skype
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.22%) VoIP
2 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Metadata
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) JIRA
2 7 (15.56%) GitLab
3 3 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) Git
5 1 (2.22%) JMeter
5 1 (2.22%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (24.44%) Finance
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) QA Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Azure Software Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Pensions Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Messaging Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Messaging Support
6 3 (6.67%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 3 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) .NET
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 5 (11.11%) REST
4 3 (6.67%) ADO
4 3 (6.67%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.22%) Blazor
5 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) Next.js
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.22%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (2.22%) React
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
5 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) Vue
5 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Synthetic Data
2 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
2 3 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) DevOps
2 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 12 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 11 (24.44%) AI
5 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
5 11 (24.44%) Validation
6 10 (22.22%) ETL
7 9 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (20.00%) QA Automation
8 8 (17.78%) Data Strategy
8 8 (17.78%) ERP
8 8 (17.78%) Scrum
8 8 (17.78%) Test Planning
8 8 (17.78%) User Experience
9 7 (15.56%) Data Management
9 7 (15.56%) Data Privacy
9 7 (15.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 7 (15.56%) C#
3 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.89%) Java
6 3 (6.67%) VB
7 1 (2.22%) Julia
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) OCA
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) QA
2 10 (22.22%) GDPR
3 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) GMP
4 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (6.67%) HP SiteScope
2 3 (6.67%) SCOM
3 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.22%) Foglight
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.22%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Databricks
4 4 (8.89%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) Ab Initio
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco
5 3 (6.67%) Remedy
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) Informatica
7 1 (2.22%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) NetApp
7 1 (2.22%) RedGate
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) Teradata
7 1 (2.22%) VMware