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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 46 44 72
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 8.00% 15.55% 11.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.54% 50.00% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 59
10th Percentile £340 £280 £304
25th Percentile £419 £347 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +8.82% -19.05%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £500
90th Percentile £650 £597 £575
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.15% -7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate £57.53 £47.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +22.39% -20.21% +25.34%

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 167 88 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.04% 31.10% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 61 136
10th Percentile £204 £280 £203
25th Percentile £413 £408 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £594 £548 £575
90th Percentile £675 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £506
% change year-on-year +2.40% -1.09% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 7
10th Percentile £60.25 - £68.00
25th Percentile £63.44 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £28.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.54% -62.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.00
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £54.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.90% -12.20% +13.64%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Redhill 0 9 £550 -
Reigate +1 5 £475 - 8
Leatherhead -3 4 £556 +30.88% 2
Guildford -13 3 £425 -17.32% 14
Woking -1 2 £513 -16.39% 5
Weybridge -7 2 £356 +1.79%
Epsom - 2 £425 - 2
Staines -21 1 £350 +4.48% 3
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 4 (8.70%) Confluence
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (2.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) OCI
3 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) AWS
5 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) Serverless
6 2 (4.35%) Azure API Management
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Siebel EIM
2 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle Database
3 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.52%) Metadata
4 3 (6.52%) MySQL
4 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.35%) Big Data
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.17%) Db2
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 4 (8.70%) Marketing
6 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Analyst
3 10 (21.74%) Siebel Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Pensions Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (4.35%) EAI Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Siebel EAI Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) .NET
2 3 (6.52%) REST
3 2 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.17%) Blazor
4 1 (2.17%) Kafka
4 1 (2.17%) MDX
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
4 1 (2.17%) Spring
4 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.70%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Unix
2 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
3 10 (21.74%) AI
3 10 (21.74%) ETL
3 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 8 (17.39%) Agile
4 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (17.39%) CRM
4 8 (17.39%) Data Migration
4 8 (17.39%) EAI
4 8 (17.39%) Workflow
5 6 (13.04%) Analytics
6 5 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (10.87%) LLM
6 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
6 5 (10.87%) Runbook
6 5 (10.87%) SQL Optimisation
7 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.70%) Data Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) Java
3 7 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 7 (15.22%) PL/SQL
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 5 (10.87%) Bash
6 3 (6.52%) Perl
6 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) GMP
3 1 (2.17%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) Siebel
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.70%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.35%) Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.17%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) Tagetik
6 1 (2.17%) Teradata
6 1 (2.17%) UiPath