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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing SQL 66 53 49
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.38% 13.66% 7.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.30% 40.46% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 39
10th Percentile £209 £350 £349
25th Percentile £377 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £583
90th Percentile £648 £593 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £511 £535
% change year-on-year -7.09% -4.44% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 3
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -73.00% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £51.25
% change year-on-year +42.40% -24.64% +153.09%

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 149 131 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 34.73% 33.76% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 86 125
10th Percentile - £203 £250
25th Percentile £204 £350 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £585
90th Percentile £626 £581 £673
South East median daily rate £485 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.67% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 13
10th Percentile - - £44.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.23% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £58.25
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.58% -2.92%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +7 13 £388 +89.02%
Redhill -4 5 £669 +30.49%
Camberley +8 4 £500 -4.76% 1
Epsom - 4 £425 - 5
Woking - 4 £450 - 10
Chertsey +3 2 £300 -17.81%
Sunbury-on-Thames +2 2 - -
Leatherhead 0 1 £485 -26.79% 1
Weybridge -4 1 £475 -5.00% 5
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 (10.61%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.61%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) Tricentis Tosca
3 6 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.06%) AWS
4 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
4 4 (6.06%) GCP
4 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) Serverless
4 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.55%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (4.55%) Azure API Management
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Contentsquare
6 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.03%) OCI
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.52%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Skype
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.52%) VoIP
2 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
3 5 (7.58%) MySQL
4 4 (6.06%) Power BI
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (4.55%) Tableau
6 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.03%) Metadata
6 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.52%) Looker
7 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Git
4 1 (1.52%) JMeter
4 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Banking
4 2 (3.03%) Electronics
4 2 (3.03%) Marketing
4 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.03%) Retail
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Support
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) QA Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Support Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Lead
4 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Support
5 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 3 (4.55%) Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) DBA
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (4.55%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.55%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.03%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) .NET
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (6.06%) REST
4 3 (4.55%) ADO
4 3 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (4.55%) PySpark
5 2 (3.03%) Next.js
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.52%) gRPC
6 1 (1.52%) NgRx
6 1 (1.52%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.52%) React
6 1 (1.52%) Redux
6 1 (1.52%) RESTful
6 1 (1.52%) WebAssembly
6 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Replication
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.24%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 5 (7.58%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Agile
2 26 (39.39%) Acceptance Criteria
3 24 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 21 (31.82%) Data Integration
5 19 (28.79%) Scrum
5 19 (28.79%) TDD
5 19 (28.79%) Workflow
6 18 (27.27%) CAFM
6 18 (27.27%) Test Strategy
7 17 (25.76%) DevOps
8 16 (24.24%) Validation
9 14 (21.21%) CI/CD
10 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.15%) Analytics
11 10 (15.15%) ITIL
11 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.15%) User Experience
12 9 (13.64%) Data Strategy
12 9 (13.64%) ERP
12 9 (13.64%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) Python
2 18 (27.27%) VB
3 12 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.09%) C#
5 6 (9.09%) Java
6 5 (7.58%) Perl
7 2 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.52%) Julia
8 1 (1.52%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Tcl
8 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (10.61%) OCA
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.58%) Degree
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.18%) QA
2 10 (15.15%) GDPR
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.61%) SCOM
2 3 (4.55%) Data Guard
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.52%) Foglight
3 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.52%) SCCM
3 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Oracle
2 14 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.61%) Cisco
3 7 (10.61%) Remedy
3 7 (10.61%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) Databricks
4 4 (6.06%) Google
5 3 (4.55%) Adobe
6 2 (3.03%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
7 1 (1.52%) Citrix
7 1 (1.52%) NetApp
7 1 (1.52%) RedGate
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Sybase
7 1 (1.52%) TikTok
7 1 (1.52%) VMware