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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 49 43 52
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 11.09% 12.15% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.69% 40.19% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 45
10th Percentile £381 £297 £379
25th Percentile £413 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £575
90th Percentile £607 £661 £675
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -71.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £53.53
% change year-on-year -13.72% +19.08% +143.32%

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 130 107 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 29.41% 30.23% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 68 115
10th Percentile £204 £215 £263
25th Percentile £286 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £663 £657 £683
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 11
10th Percentile £45.00 - £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.93% +34.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £67.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%

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 February 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 February 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
Staines -3 9 £500 +143.90% 1
Redhill -4 7 £619 +22.22% 4
Epsom - 6 £425 - 4
Reigate +8 3 - - 4
Woking - 3 £475 - 12
Weybridge -7 2 £344 -19.12% 4
Guildford - 2 £438 - 19
Leatherhead -2 1 £485 -25.38%
Camberley -2 1 £550 +4.76% 2
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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
1 4 (8.16%) Mattermost
1 4 (8.16%) Skype for Business
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) Serverless
3 7 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
4 6 (12.24%) Azure Functions
5 5 (10.20%) Azure API Management
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Storage
5 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) GitHub
5 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.16%) AWS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.08%) OCI
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Skype
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.04%) VoIP
2 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.08%) Metadata
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.04%) Big Data
6 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
6 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) JIRA
2 7 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.04%) Git
4 1 (2.04%) JMeter
4 1 (2.04%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (24.49%) Finance
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Messaging Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Messaging Support
6 4 (8.16%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Senior
6 4 (8.16%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Pensions Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) QA Leader
7 3 (6.12%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Tester
9 1 (2.04%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) .NET
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (10.20%) ARM Templates
3 5 (10.20%) REST
4 3 (6.12%) ADO
4 3 (6.12%) PySpark
5 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.04%) Blazor
5 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) Next.js
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.04%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (2.04%) React
5 1 (2.04%) Spring
5 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.04%) Vue
5 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Synthetic Data
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Unix
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Agile
2 18 (36.73%) DevOps
3 17 (34.69%) Acceptance Criteria
4 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
5 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
6 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 12 (24.49%) Scrum
7 12 (24.49%) Validation
8 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (20.41%) AI
9 10 (20.41%) Test Strategy
10 9 (18.37%) ETL
10 9 (18.37%) QA Automation
10 9 (18.37%) Workflow
11 8 (16.33%) CAFM
11 8 (16.33%) Data Strategy
11 8 (16.33%) ERP
11 8 (16.33%) TDD
11 8 (16.33%) Test Planning
11 8 (16.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) PL/SQL
3 8 (16.33%) VB
4 7 (14.29%) C#
4 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.16%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.12%) Java
8 1 (2.04%) Julia
8 1 (2.04%) Perl
8 1 (2.04%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) OCA
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (8.16%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) QA
2 10 (20.41%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.04%) GMP
4 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) HP SiteScope
1 4 (8.16%) SCOM
2 3 (6.12%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.04%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.04%) Foglight
3 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.04%) SCCM
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.45%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Databricks
4 4 (8.16%) Cisco
4 4 (8.16%) Remedy
4 4 (8.16%) Splunk
5 3 (6.12%) Ab Initio
5 3 (6.12%) Google
6 2 (4.08%) Informatica
7 1 (2.04%) Citrix
7 1 (2.04%) NetApp
7 1 (2.04%) RedGate
7 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.04%) SAP
7 1 (2.04%) Teradata
7 1 (2.04%) VMware