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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 42 40 64
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.29% 13.61% 11.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.06% 44.44% 45.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 55
10th Percentile - £280 £360
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £433
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.51% -17.62%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £522
90th Percentile £668 £660 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
South East median hourly rate £42.72 £63.12 £58.11
% change year-on-year -32.33% +8.62% +162.24%

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 131 90 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.98% 30.61% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 58 110
10th Percentile £204 £327 £298
25th Percentile £406 £381 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £441
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +7.65% -15.95%
75th Percentile £563 £534 £573
90th Percentile £668 £613 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.29% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 2
10th Percentile £35.75 - £35.78
25th Percentile £60.00 - £42.57
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £54.52
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -48.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £65.84
90th Percentile - - £72.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £59.50
% change year-on-year -4.59% -3.12% +8.18%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 8 £575 +43.75% 3
Staines -8 8 £500 +63.93%
Epsom - 5 £425 - 2
Reigate +6 4 - - 2
Weybridge -6 3 £475 +11.76%
Woking - 3 £475 - 4
Guildford -5 2 £438 -2.78% 14
Leatherhead -1 1 £485 -25.38% 1
Camberley -2 1 £550 +4.76% 1
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 5 (11.90%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (16.67%) Serverless
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 6 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
5 5 (11.90%) Azure API Management
5 5 (11.90%) Azure Storage
5 5 (11.90%) GitHub
5 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.52%) AWS
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) OCI
8 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.38%) VoIP
1 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Big Data
4 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.76%) Metadata
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) JIRA
2 6 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) JMeter
5 1 (2.38%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Marketing
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Analyst
1 6 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (14.29%) Lead
1 6 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Azure Software Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Pensions Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Developer
4 3 (7.14%) QA Leader
5 2 (4.76%) Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) .NET
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (14.29%) REST
3 5 (11.90%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.14%) ADO
4 3 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) MDX
5 1 (2.38%) Next.js
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) SOAP
5 1 (2.38%) Spring
5 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.38%) Vue
5 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 6 (14.29%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Robotics
4 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Test Automation
2 16 (38.10%) DevOps
3 13 (30.95%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
4 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (26.19%) AI
6 10 (23.81%) ETL
7 9 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (21.43%) User Experience
8 8 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (19.05%) QA Automation
9 7 (16.67%) Analytics
9 7 (16.67%) Data Strategy
9 7 (16.67%) ERP
9 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 7 (16.67%) Test Planning
9 7 (16.67%) Validation
10 6 (14.29%) Data Management
10 6 (14.29%) Data Privacy
10 6 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) C#
2 9 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.67%) Java
5 5 (11.90%) T-SQL
6 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) VBScript
8 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.38%) Julia
8 1 (2.38%) Perl
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) OCA
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (28.57%) QA
2 9 (21.43%) GDPR
3 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.38%) GMP
4 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.38%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.38%) Foglight
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.38%) SCCM
2 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) Databricks
3 4 (9.52%) Blue Prism
3 4 (9.52%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) Ab Initio
5 2 (4.76%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) NetApp
6 1 (2.38%) RedGate
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) Teradata
6 1 (2.38%) UiPath
6 1 (2.38%) VMware