SQL Contracts in Surrey

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 45 56 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 13.76% 9.21% 13.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.69% 37.84% 45.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 66
10th Percentile £275 £365 £375
25th Percentile £347 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +2.72%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £658 £675 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £50.00
75th Percentile £13.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £55.94 £22.16
% change year-on-year +13.95% +152.44% -51.56%

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 103 148 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 31.50% 24.34% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 108 159
10th Percentile £254 £304 £373
25th Percentile £365 £373 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £657 £679 £638
South East median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £39.26 £51.13
25th Percentile £13.25 £53.62 £52.81
Median hourly rate £13.50 £76.53 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -82.36% +36.05% +18.42%
75th Percentile £13.75 - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £62.38
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £59.00 £54.98
% change year-on-year -2.12% +7.32% +15.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Surrey over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Surrey

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Surrey

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 March 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
Staines +6 10 £290 -6.45%
Redhill +4 8 £400 -5.88% 2
Reigate 0 4 £475 -9.52% 2
Camberley - 4 £525 - 2
Leatherhead -1 3 £650 +52.94% 2
Sunbury-on-Thames +4 2 £600 -27.27% 1
Chertsey +4 2 £365 -14.12% 2
Weybridge +1 2 £425 -31.45% 1
Guildford +3 1 £450 -29.41% 8
Tadworth - 1 - -
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 4 (8.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Solr
2 2 (4.44%) IIS
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Power Platform
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (8.89%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) Google Ads
5 2 (4.44%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (17.78%) MySQL
2 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 7 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Qlik Sense
4 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.67%) DTS
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.44%) DB2
7 2 (4.44%) Looker
8 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.22%) Big Data
8 1 (2.22%) Couchbase
8 1 (2.22%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) GitLab
2 5 (11.11%) Maven
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (4.44%) Selenium
4 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) MSBuild
5 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Korean Language
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Automotive
6 1 (2.22%) Electronics
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Data Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) DBA
2 6 (13.33%) SQL DBA
3 5 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 4 (8.89%) Developer
4 4 (8.89%) SQL Server DBA
4 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Configuration Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 3 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Pensions Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Digital Marketing Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) JSON
1 6 (13.33%) React
1 6 (13.33%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) Java EE
2 4 (8.89%) XML
3 3 (6.67%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) RESTful
3 3 (6.67%) Web Services
4 2 (4.44%) Ajax
4 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.44%) CSS
4 2 (4.44%) HTML
4 2 (4.44%) JAXB
4 2 (4.44%) JAX-RS
4 2 (4.44%) JAX-WS
4 2 (4.44%) LAMP
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) XSD
4 2 (4.44%) XSL
4 2 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Clustering
2 4 (8.89%) Replication
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (28.89%) Analytics
3 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (17.78%) Decision-Making
4 8 (17.78%) Migration
5 7 (15.56%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.33%) Customer Service
6 6 (13.33%) Data Science
6 6 (13.33%) ITIL
6 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (8.89%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (8.89%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (8.89%) Database Tuning
8 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (8.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Java
3 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.67%) Perl
6 3 (6.67%) R
7 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.44%) PHP
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.44%) XPath
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) MCSE
4 2 (4.44%) MCTS
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.22%) OCP
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) GMP
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle
2 5 (11.11%) Adobe
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (4.44%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) TikTok
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) BMC
5 1 (2.22%) Remedy
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk