SQL Contracts in England

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3,674 5,485 8,747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.88% 11.65% 12.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.65% 33.81% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,718 4,018 6,363
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £540
% change year-on-year -0.47% -2.31% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 72 126
10th Percentile £22.66 £22.16 £15.13
25th Percentile £28.31 £31.27 £18.52
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile £53.94 £72.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
England

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,252 16,221 25,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.25% 34.46% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,078 11,879 19,078
10th Percentile £350 £379 £387
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 401 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £27.10 £19.71
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £77.80 £79.19 £74.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
% change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in England

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in England

SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
London +1 2,313 £575 - 1,047
North of England -5 424 £476 -2.96% 460
South East -11 349 £475 -8.65% 269
North West -2 249 £475 - 266
Midlands -4 235 £418 -7.22% 280
South West -10 160 £538 +7.50% 181
West Midlands -2 148 £425 -15.00% 159
Yorkshire -1 141 £500 -4.76% 154
East Midlands 0 86 £400 - 118
East of England -24 82 £450 +2.27% 112
North East +18 34 £475 - 46
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 117 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 114 (3.10%) Apache
3 100 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (1.99%) SAS
4 73 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 57 (1.55%) Confluence
6 53 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 42 (1.14%) IIS
8 22 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
9 13 (0.35%) CMS
10 11 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.24%) MTS
12 9 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 176 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (2.99%) Chatbot
3 47 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 38 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.27%) SPSS
8 8 (0.22%) CATIA
9 2 (0.054%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.054%) Mingle
9 2 (0.054%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.027%) Elementor
10 1 (0.027%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.027%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.12%) Endur
2 26 (0.71%) Aladdin
2 26 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.71%) NEC Housing
3 22 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
5 15 (0.41%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
7 13 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
7 13 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
8 10 (0.27%) ION MarketView
8 10 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.24%) EuroRunner
9 9 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 8 (0.22%) Aareon QL
10 8 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
10 8 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
10 8 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,016 (27.65%) Azure
2 660 (17.96%) AWS
3 552 (15.02%) Power Platform
4 213 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 203 (5.53%) Serverless
6 180 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 175 (4.76%) GCP
8 126 (3.43%) GitHub
9 121 (3.29%) Snowflake
10 120 (3.27%) Amazon S3
11 114 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
12 88 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 74 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 72 (1.96%) PowerApps
15 68 (1.85%) PaaS
16 65 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 65 (1.77%) Power Automate
17 63 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
17 63 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.14%) Firewall
2 38 (1.03%) DNS
3 34 (0.93%) Internet
4 31 (0.84%) DHCP
5 22 (0.60%) VPN
6 18 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.41%) SAN
9 13 (0.35%) FTP
9 13 (0.35%) Network Security
10 11 (0.30%) HTTP
11 10 (0.27%) BGP
11 10 (0.27%) SSH
12 9 (0.24%) AMQP
12 9 (0.24%) FIX Connectivity
13 8 (0.22%) MPLS
14 7 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (0.19%) LAN
14 7 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
14 7 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 666 (18.13%) SQL Server
2 521 (14.18%) Power BI
3 382 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 240 (6.53%) Relational Database
6 218 (5.93%) Tableau
7 200 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
8 189 (5.14%) Data Lake
9 177 (4.82%) Big Data
10 174 (4.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 172 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 148 (4.03%) Oracle Database
13 132 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 122 (3.32%) MySQL
15 90 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 88 (2.40%) MongoDB
17 77 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
18 76 (2.07%) BigQuery
19 64 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 63 (1.71%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 251 (6.83%) Git
2 203 (5.53%) JIRA
3 127 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 72 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 64 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.33%) GitLab
7 42 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 37 (1.01%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.98%) Selenium
10 29 (0.79%) Postman
11 26 (0.71%) JUnit
11 26 (0.71%) NUnit
12 25 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.60%) Maven
13 22 (0.60%) SpecFlow
14 19 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
15 18 (0.49%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.44%) SonarQube
16 16 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 942 (25.64%) Finance
2 790 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 529 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (10.97%) Banking
5 262 (7.13%) Front Office
6 207 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 137 (3.73%) Investment Banking
8 117 (3.18%) Retail
9 99 (2.69%) Marketing
10 80 (2.18%) Back Office
11 63 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 55 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 55 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 50 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 39 (1.06%) Local Government
15 35 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 33 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 31 (0.84%) Billing
18 30 (0.82%) Legal
19 24 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1,224 (33.32%) Developer
2 600 (16.33%) Analyst
3 389 (10.59%) Data Engineer
4 378 (10.29%) Senior
5 233 (6.34%) Data Analyst
6 214 (5.82%) Architect
7 185 (5.04%) Business Analyst
8 170 (4.63%) Software Developer
9 151 (4.11%) C# Developer
10 136 (3.70%) Lead
11 132 (3.59%) SQL Developer
12 130 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
13 127 (3.46%) .NET Developer
14 126 (3.43%) Consultant
15 123 (3.35%) Senior Developer
16 118 (3.21%) DBA
17 115 (3.13%) Software Engineer
18 104 (2.83%) Python Developer
19 102 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
20 95 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (12.74%) .NET
2 328 (8.93%) HTML
3 179 (4.87%) React
4 162 (4.41%) XML
5 151 (4.11%) REST
6 146 (3.97%) CSS
7 140 (3.81%) Kafka
8 132 (3.59%) JSON
9 123 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 118 (3.21%) RESTful
11 112 (3.05%) .NET Framework
12 104 (2.83%) PySpark
13 100 (2.72%) .NET Core
14 98 (2.67%) Web Services
15 97 (2.64%) Spring
16 86 (2.34%) SOAP
17 79 (2.15%) ASP.NET
18 78 (2.12%) Node.js
19 53 (1.44%) WCF
20 52 (1.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 149 (4.06%) Derivative
2 135 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 116 (3.16%) Hedge funds
4 109 (2.97%) Fixed Income
5 102 (2.78%) Equities
6 99 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 76 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 71 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 68 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 64 (1.74%) Algorithms
11 61 (1.66%) Data Structures
12 59 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
12 59 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 51 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 45 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 44 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
16 43 (1.17%) Cloud Native
17 42 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
18 36 (0.98%) Replication
19 35 (0.95%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 329 (8.95%) Windows
2 236 (6.42%) Linux
3 206 (5.61%) Unix
4 125 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 28 (0.76%) Windows 10
7 26 (0.71%) VMS
7 26 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 21 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.33%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.30%) Solaris
13 10 (0.27%) Android
13 10 (0.27%) CentOS
14 8 (0.22%) AIX
15 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.11%) zOS
17 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (22.86%) Agile
2 663 (18.05%) Business Intelligence
3 555 (15.11%) Data Modelling
4 550 (14.97%) Analytics
5 541 (14.73%) DevOps
6 488 (13.28%) ETL
7 483 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
8 423 (11.51%) Software Engineering
9 388 (10.56%) Migration
10 370 (10.07%) CI/CD
11 306 (8.33%) Data Analysis
12 272 (7.40%) Scrum
13 263 (7.16%) Data Pipeline
14 259 (7.05%) Computer Science
14 259 (7.05%) Visualisation
15 228 (6.21%) Artificial Intelligence
16 216 (5.88%) Data Engineering
17 215 (5.85%) Test Automation
18 208 (5.66%) Data Science
19 192 (5.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (31.85%) Python
2 689 (18.75%) C#
3 472 (12.85%) JavaScript
4 458 (12.47%) Java
5 263 (7.16%) PL/SQL
6 239 (6.51%) PowerShell
7 219 (5.96%) T-SQL
8 130 (3.54%) TypeScript
9 81 (2.20%) C++
10 76 (2.07%) Bash
10 76 (2.07%) Shell Script
11 74 (2.01%) R
12 67 (1.82%) Scala
12 67 (1.82%) VBA
13 51 (1.39%) C
13 51 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 47 (1.28%) Go
14 47 (1.28%) VB
15 46 (1.25%) Perl
16 43 (1.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 522 (14.21%) Degree
2 366 (9.96%) Security Cleared
3 269 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 132 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 71 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 50 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 28 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (0.73%) MCSE
11 21 (0.57%) PMP
12 19 (0.52%) MCSA
12 19 (0.52%) PhD
12 19 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 18 (0.49%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.38%) ISTQB
16 13 (0.35%) CISSP
17 11 (0.30%) AWS Certification
18 7 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 204 (5.55%) QA
3 44 (1.20%) SLA
4 37 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.01%) GDPR
5 31 (0.84%) MiFID
6 25 (0.68%) PCI DSS
7 23 (0.63%) EMIR
8 18 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
9 14 (0.38%) HL7
9 14 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.24%) PMO
12 8 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.19%) GxP
13 7 (0.19%) IFRS
13 7 (0.19%) WCAG
14 6 (0.16%) Basel III
15 5 (0.14%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 216 (5.88%) Docker
2 192 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.71%) IAG
6 24 (0.65%) ACF2
6 24 (0.65%) RACF
7 12 (0.33%) vSphere
8 8 (0.22%) HDFS
8 8 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.082%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.054%) Firmware
12 2 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.054%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 222 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 158 (4.30%) Terraform
3 73 (1.99%) Ansible
4 45 (1.22%) Grafana
5 24 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 18 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
8 14 (0.38%) SCCM
9 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
9 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.27%) Control-M
11 9 (0.24%) BladeLogic
11 9 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.19%) PingFederate
12 7 (0.19%) SCOM
12 7 (0.19%) WSUS
13 6 (0.16%) HP Fortify
13 6 (0.16%) Kibana
13 6 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 591 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 577 (15.70%) Oracle
3 206 (5.61%) Databricks
4 123 (3.35%) SAP
5 113 (3.08%) Google
6 110 (2.99%) PayPal
7 92 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 81 (2.20%) VMware
9 80 (2.18%) Salesforce
10 55 (1.50%) Informatica
11 49 (1.33%) Splunk
12 43 (1.17%) Citrix
13 42 (1.14%) Sybase
14 41 (1.12%) Bloomberg
15 39 (1.06%) IBM
16 31 (0.84%) NEC
17 29 (0.79%) Alteryx
18 26 (0.71%) Dynatrace
19 25 (0.68%) Adobe
20 24 (0.65%) CyberArk