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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 8 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing SQL 66 46 53
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.42% 12.23% 8.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.21% 38.02% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 43
10th Percentile £232 £306 £361
25th Percentile £413 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +6.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £575
90th Percentile £655 £617 £666
South East median daily rate £475 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 3
10th Percentile - - £47.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -73.00% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.72% +27.49% +127.27%

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 146 121 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 34.11% 32.18% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 76 131
10th Percentile - £203 £250
25th Percentile £204 £365 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £578
90th Percentile £657 £597 £674
South East median daily rate £481 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -4.70% -3.81% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 13
10th Percentile - - £44.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £13.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +307.41% -79.23% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £13.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £59.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £57.90
% change year-on-year -4.59% -0.44% -3.50%

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 January 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 January 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 +5 12 £444 +116.46% 1
Epsom - 6 £425 - 7
Redhill -3 5 £669 +32.10% 3
Camberley +4 4 £500 -4.76% 1
Woking - 4 £450 - 22
Reigate +7 2 - - 1
Leatherhead +2 1 £485 -26.79%
Sunbury-on-Thames +1 1 - -
Weybridge -4 1 £475 -5.00% 6
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 7 (10.61%) Mattermost
1 7 (10.61%) Skype for Business
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.79%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.61%) Tricentis Tosca
4 6 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 6 (9.09%) Serverless
5 5 (7.58%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Storage
5 5 (7.58%) GitHub
6 4 (6.06%) GCP
6 4 (6.06%) Snowflake
7 3 (4.55%) AWS
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) OCI
8 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Skype
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.52%) VoIP
2 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.06%) MySQL
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) Metadata
7 2 (3.03%) Power BI
7 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.52%) Looker
8 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.52%) Git
4 1 (1.52%) JMeter
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.52%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Banking
4 2 (3.03%) Marketing
4 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Developer
2 9 (13.64%) Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Support
3 7 (10.61%) Messaging Support Analyst
3 7 (10.61%) QA Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Support
7 3 (4.55%) Architect
7 3 (4.55%) DBA
7 3 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.55%) QA Leader
7 3 (4.55%) Senior
7 3 (4.55%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) .NET
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (9.09%) REST
4 5 (7.58%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.55%) ADO
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 3 (4.55%) PySpark
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.52%) Blazor
6 1 (1.52%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.52%) Next.js
6 1 (1.52%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.52%) RESTful
6 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Synthetic Data
2 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.03%) Replication
4 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.73%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (45.45%) Agile
2 27 (40.91%) Acceptance Criteria
3 26 (39.39%) Software Engineering
4 21 (31.82%) Scrum
5 19 (28.79%) Data Integration
5 19 (28.79%) Test Strategy
5 19 (28.79%) Workflow
6 18 (27.27%) CAFM
6 18 (27.27%) DevOps
6 18 (27.27%) TDD
7 16 (24.24%) Validation
8 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
9 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (16.67%) Test Automation
11 10 (15.15%) ITIL
12 9 (13.64%) AI
12 9 (13.64%) Data Strategy
12 9 (13.64%) ERP
12 9 (13.64%) QA Automation
13 8 (12.12%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 18 (27.27%) Python
1 18 (27.27%) VB
2 12 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
4 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.12%) C#
6 5 (7.58%) Java
7 4 (6.06%) Perl
8 3 (4.55%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.52%) Julia
9 1 (1.52%) R
9 1 (1.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (10.61%) ITIL Certification
1 7 (10.61%) OCA
1 7 (10.61%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 10 (15.15%) GDPR
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) HP SiteScope
1 7 (10.61%) SCOM
2 3 (4.55%) Data Guard
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.52%) Foglight
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) SCCM
4 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.73%) Oracle
3 7 (10.61%) Cisco
3 7 (10.61%) Remedy
3 7 (10.61%) Splunk
4 6 (9.09%) Databricks
5 4 (6.06%) Google
6 2 (3.03%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
7 1 (1.52%) Adobe
7 1 (1.52%) Citrix
7 1 (1.52%) NetApp
7 1 (1.52%) RedGate
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Sybase
7 1 (1.52%) TikTok
7 1 (1.52%) VMware