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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL 44 70 66
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 6.77% 19.66% 12.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.76% 50.00% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 50
10th Percentile £337 £204 £295
25th Percentile £413 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £550 £556
90th Percentile £635 £594 £575
South East median daily rate £475 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +307.41% -73.00%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £55.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -30.45% +307.41% -71.58%

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 153 140 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 23.54% 39.33% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 87 134
10th Percentile £227 - £203
25th Percentile £413 £204 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £603 £548 £573
90th Percentile £667 £580 £629
South East median daily rate £523 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 8
10th Percentile £56.81 - £44.23
25th Percentile £67.47 £52.50 £70.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +43.54%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £80.00
90th Percentile - - £82.25
South East median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -21.43% +27.27%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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
Leatherhead -2 9 £500 +150.00% 4
Redhill -1 6 £550 - 4
Reigate -1 4 £475 - 3
Woking -6 2 £513 -11.87% 11
Staines -21 2 £350 +68.67% 2
Epsom +4 1 £425 -19.05%
Guildford -10 1 £425 -17.32% 12
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 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 16 (36.36%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
3 10 (22.73%) OCI
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.55%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Power BI
2 8 (18.18%) Siebel EIM
2 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
4 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 3 (6.82%) Metadata
5 3 (6.82%) MySQL
5 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.55%) GIS
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.55%) Tableau
7 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.27%) Db2
7 1 (2.27%) Power Query
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Advertising
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Siebel Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Data Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Data Migration Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Records Management Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
8 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 2 (4.55%) EAI Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
8 2 (4.55%) Network Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Pensions Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Siebel EAI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) XML
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.27%) Blazor
3 1 (2.27%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) RESTful
3 1 (2.27%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) SCADA
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) PMI
3 1 (2.27%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (25.00%) ETL
4 9 (20.45%) Data Analysis
4 9 (20.45%) Data Migration
4 9 (20.45%) Migration
5 8 (18.18%) Agile
5 8 (18.18%) AI
5 8 (18.18%) CRM
5 8 (18.18%) EAI
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.91%) Analytics
6 7 (15.91%) Data Governance
6 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
6 7 (15.91%) Validation
7 6 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.64%) Workflow
8 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) PL/SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Bash
4 3 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) Perl
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) VB
6 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) Data Quality
1 10 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Oracle
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Siebel
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) Tagetik