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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 70 68 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 19.77% 12.52% 9.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 36.76% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 52 55
10th Percentile £204 £304 £362
25th Percentile £300 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £543
90th Percentile £594 £575 £596
South East median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile - - £44.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -73.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 -
90th Percentile - - £54.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +307.41% -70.81% +180.30%

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 140 185 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 39.55% 34.07% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 136 159
10th Percentile - £203 £298
25th Percentile £204 £251 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £548 £575 £600
90th Percentile £580 £634 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile - £44.23 £36.73
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.63 £45.01
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +43.54% +63.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £80.00 £70.80
90th Percentile - £82.25 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.06
% change year-on-year -21.43% +24.87% -6.57%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Redhill -1 8 £550 +10.00% 5
Camberley - 6 £514 - 5
Staines +4 5 £208 +1.22% 1
Woking - 4 £582 - 7
Chertsey +3 3 £300 -2.44%
Guildford -1 3 £514 - 14
Sunbury-on-Thames +1 2 - -
Reigate - 2 - - 6
Leatherhead -1 1 £200 -60.00% 2
Epsom - 1 £525 -
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 7 (10.00%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.71%) Adobe Analytics
2 4 (5.71%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Contentsquare
4 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Akamai
5 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.43%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.43%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
5 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) Skype
2 1 (1.43%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) WAN
2 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.00%) Power BI
3 5 (7.14%) MySQL
3 5 (7.14%) Tableau
4 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.86%) Looker
5 2 (2.86%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.43%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Toad
2 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (30.00%) Finance
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.71%) Retail
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
6 2 (2.86%) Electronics
6 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Developer
2 22 (31.43%) Analyst
3 8 (11.43%) Pensions Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Messaging Support
4 7 (10.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 7 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Senior
5 5 (7.14%) Technical Support
6 4 (5.71%) ABAP Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.29%) Data Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) DBA
7 3 (4.29%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.29%) Senior ABAP Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Node.js
2 3 (4.29%) .NET
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (4.29%) Web Services
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.43%) Blazor
3 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.43%) Next.js
3 1 (1.43%) NgRx
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.43%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) Redux
3 1 (1.43%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) RESTful
3 1 (1.43%) WebAssembly
3 1 (1.43%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.86%) Replication
2 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
2 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.43%) Linux
2 7 (10.00%) Unix
2 7 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Data Integration
2 23 (32.86%) Agile
3 22 (31.43%) Workflow
4 21 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 20 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 20 (28.57%) TDD
6 19 (27.14%) CAFM
6 19 (27.14%) Test Strategy
7 18 (25.71%) Scrum
8 13 (18.57%) Validation
9 10 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 10 (14.29%) ITIL
10 9 (12.86%) Analytics
11 7 (10.00%) B2B
11 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 7 (10.00%) Information Security
11 7 (10.00%) ITSM
11 7 (10.00%) Problem Management
12 6 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) VB
2 17 (24.29%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.86%) Java
4 9 (12.86%) Perl
5 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.71%) ABAP
6 4 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.29%) C#
8 2 (2.86%) R
9 1 (1.43%) Korn
9 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) OCA
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.00%) SCOM
2 3 (4.29%) Data Guard
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Terraform
4 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Oracle
2 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.43%) Adobe
3 8 (11.43%) Cisco
4 7 (10.00%) Remedy
4 7 (10.00%) Splunk
5 5 (7.14%) SAP
6 2 (2.86%) Sybase
7 1 (1.43%) Dell KACE
7 1 (1.43%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) Meraki
7 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.43%) TikTok
7 1 (1.43%) Ubiquiti