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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 44 44 68
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 7.73% 15.83% 10.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.99% 53.66% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 55
10th Percentile £368 £280 £306
25th Percentile £413 £347 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +8.82% -19.05%
75th Percentile £583 £548 £500
90th Percentile £650 £597 £547
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -38.80% +6.10% +20.23%

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 163 82 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.65% 29.50% 24.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 58 119
10th Percentile £204 £327 £253
25th Percentile £413 £413 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £564
90th Percentile £650 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £501
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.10% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 6
10th Percentile £60.00 - £66.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% -63.87% +55.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £80.00
90th Percentile - - £83.75
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +9.79%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -1 11 £550 -
Epsom - 5 £425 - 1
Reigate +1 4 - - 1
Leatherhead -5 3 £613 +44.12% 3
Guildford -12 3 £425 -17.32% 7
Woking +1 2 £513 -16.39% 4
Weybridge -8 2 £356 +1.79%
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%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (2.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
4 6 (13.64%) OCI
4 6 (13.64%) Serverless
5 5 (11.36%) Azure API Management
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Storage
5 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.09%) GCP
7 3 (6.82%) AWS
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Siebel EIM
2 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.36%) Power BI
2 5 (11.36%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.09%) Metadata
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.27%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Analyst
2 8 (18.18%) Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Pensions Analyst
4 6 (13.64%) Siebel Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Software Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Consultant
7 3 (6.82%) Data Migration Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.55%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) .NET
2 6 (13.64%) REST
3 5 (11.36%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.27%) Blazor
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) MDX
5 1 (2.27%) React
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) Spring
5 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (11.36%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Unix
2 3 (6.82%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) ETL
2 12 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 11 (25.00%) Migration
4 9 (20.45%) AI
4 9 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 8 (18.18%) DevOps
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Agile
6 7 (15.91%) Analytics
6 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (15.91%) Data Migration
7 6 (13.64%) EAI
7 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.36%) LLM
8 5 (11.36%) Machine Learning
8 5 (11.36%) Runbook
8 5 (11.36%) SQL Optimisation
8 5 (11.36%) Workflow
9 4 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 9 (20.45%) C#
4 8 (18.18%) Java
5 7 (15.91%) PL/SQL
6 5 (11.36%) Bash
6 5 (11.36%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.82%) Perl
7 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) GMP
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Oracle
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Databricks
3 6 (13.64%) Siebel
4 4 (9.09%) Blue Prism
5 3 (6.82%) Ab Initio
6 2 (4.55%) Informatica
7 1 (2.27%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Tagetik
7 1 (2.27%) Teradata
7 1 (2.27%) UiPath