SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 1,506 2,134 3,376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.16% 9.37% 10.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.17% 33.51% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,538 2,369
10th Percentile £307 £319 £313
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £569
90th Percentile £625 £657 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 53 87
10th Percentile £22.34 £21.43 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.89 £27.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +122.22% -4.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.56 £38.33
90th Percentile £60.89 £78.00 £62.79
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.93% +53.57% +29.63%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,992 6,368 8,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 27.96% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 4,460 6,202
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.42%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 321 324
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.82 £78.00 £67.46
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.36% +16.65%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the UK excluding London

SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England -3 420 £475 -2.06% 456
South East -10 351 £474 -9.76% 264
North West -2 246 £475 - 270
Midlands -4 232 £405 -10.00% 262
Scotland +1 222 £450 -7.69% 101
South West -11 161 £538 +7.50% 174
West Midlands -4 146 £425 -15.00% 150
Yorkshire -3 141 £500 -1.96% 148
East Midlands 0 85 £400 - 109
East of England -17 81 £450 +2.27% 111
North East +14 33 £475 - 43
Wales +10 28 £413 -8.33% 31
Northern Ireland -3 17 £400 -11.11% 23
South Coast - 3 £500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 53 (3.52%) SAS
2 46 (3.05%) Confluence
3 39 (2.59%) Apache
3 39 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 33 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 26 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
8 12 (0.80%) IIS
9 7 (0.46%) CMS
9 7 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 6 (0.40%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.13%) StreamWeaver
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 108 (7.17%) Chatbot
2 70 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.53%) CATIA
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.53%) SPSS
6 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) EngageOne
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
8 1 (0.066%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.066%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.00%) Teamcenter
2 12 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.53%) Aareon QL
4 8 (0.53%) DELMIA
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
5 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle HRMS
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.27%) FastStats
7 4 (0.27%) Unica
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 334 (22.18%) Azure
2 288 (19.12%) Power Platform
3 218 (14.48%) AWS
4 81 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 81 (5.38%) Serverless
5 77 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (4.25%) Snowflake
7 63 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 50 (3.32%) GCP
9 49 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (2.66%) Power Automate
11 37 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (2.26%) GitHub
14 32 (2.12%) OpenShift
15 31 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
16 30 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.06%) DNS
2 28 (1.86%) DHCP
3 25 (1.66%) Firewall
4 17 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 14 (0.93%) SAN
6 12 (0.80%) Network Security
7 11 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.66%) BGP
8 10 (0.66%) VPN
9 9 (0.60%) AMQP
10 8 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (0.53%) FTP
11 7 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.46%) MPLS
11 7 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (0.40%) Skype
13 5 (0.33%) LAN
13 5 (0.33%) NAS
13 5 (0.33%) WAN
14 4 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (17.86%) Power BI
2 242 (16.07%) SQL Server
3 138 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (7.44%) Tableau
5 105 (6.97%) Relational Database
6 83 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
7 81 (5.38%) Data Lake
8 80 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 77 (5.11%) Oracle Database
10 76 (5.05%) NoSQL
11 59 (3.92%) MySQL
12 57 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 56 (3.72%) Big Data
14 51 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
15 50 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
16 41 (2.72%) MongoDB
17 36 (2.39%) BigQuery
18 35 (2.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 31 (2.06%) Metadata
20 30 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 113 (7.50%) JIRA
2 108 (7.17%) Git
3 59 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
4 27 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 26 (1.73%) GitLab
5 26 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 19 (1.26%) Postman
7 17 (1.13%) Selenium
8 16 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.93%) JUnit
9 14 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
9 14 (0.93%) TestRail
10 11 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
12 9 (0.60%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.53%) webpack
14 7 (0.46%) Artifactory
General
1 319 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 224 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
3 189 (12.55%) Finance
4 103 (6.84%) Public Sector
5 62 (4.12%) Retail
6 50 (3.32%) Banking
7 36 (2.39%) Marketing
8 32 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.46%) Military
11 19 (1.26%) Legal
12 18 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (1.13%) Local Government
14 15 (1.00%) Automotive
15 14 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.66%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.66%) Billing
17 10 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 549 (36.45%) Developer
2 220 (14.61%) Analyst
3 137 (9.10%) Senior
4 124 (8.23%) Software Developer
5 121 (8.03%) Data Engineer
6 119 (7.90%) Data Analyst
7 74 (4.91%) Architect
8 66 (4.38%) SQL Developer
9 61 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 61 (4.05%) DBA
10 48 (3.19%) Lead
10 48 (3.19%) Test Engineer
11 45 (2.99%) Java Developer
11 45 (2.99%) SQL DBA
12 41 (2.72%) Consultant
12 41 (2.72%) Power BI Developer
13 38 (2.52%) Senior Developer
14 37 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
15 36 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 36 (2.39%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (12.75%) HTML
2 108 (7.17%) .NET
3 89 (5.91%) REST
4 78 (5.18%) CSS
5 70 (4.65%) AngularJS
6 66 (4.38%) Spring
7 56 (3.72%) RESTful
8 53 (3.52%) Spring Boot
9 50 (3.32%) XML
10 43 (2.86%) Kafka
10 43 (2.86%) React
11 31 (2.06%) JSON
12 29 (1.93%) SOAP
13 24 (1.59%) .NET Core
13 24 (1.59%) Web Services
14 23 (1.53%) Node.js
15 22 (1.46%) .NET Framework
16 21 (1.39%) AWS CDK
17 15 (1.00%) JPA
17 15 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (2.32%) Product Ownership
2 31 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
2 31 (2.06%) Management Information System
3 29 (1.93%) PKI
4 27 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 26 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (1.59%) Replication
7 21 (1.39%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.13%) Clustering
11 16 (1.06%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.00%) NHS
13 14 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (0.86%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (0.73%) Algorithms
17 10 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 135 (8.96%) Windows
2 100 (6.64%) Unix
3 87 (5.78%) Linux
4 76 (5.05%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 23 (1.53%) Windows 10
7 21 (1.39%) VMS
8 13 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.73%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.53%) Solaris
12 6 (0.40%) Android
13 5 (0.33%) AIX
14 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.20%) CentOS
15 3 (0.20%) zOS
16 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (21.71%) Agile
2 311 (20.65%) Business Intelligence
3 220 (14.61%) Data Modelling
4 197 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (12.75%) Analytics
6 189 (12.55%) Software Engineering
7 178 (11.82%) Migration
8 173 (11.49%) DevOps
8 173 (11.49%) ETL
9 147 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 137 (9.10%) CI/CD
11 124 (8.23%) Scrum
12 120 (7.97%) Code Quality
13 116 (7.70%) Visualisation
14 108 (7.17%) Conversational UI
15 99 (6.57%) Data Analysis
16 86 (5.71%) Data Migration
17 85 (5.64%) Performance Tuning
17 85 (5.64%) Test Automation
18 84 (5.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 374 (24.83%) Python
2 234 (15.54%) C#
3 220 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 166 (11.02%) Java
5 147 (9.76%) PL/SQL
6 65 (4.32%) T-SQL
7 61 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 56 (3.72%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 34 (2.26%) R
11 32 (2.12%) Bash
12 29 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 28 (1.86%) C
14 22 (1.46%) C++
15 21 (1.39%) Go
16 16 (1.06%) VB
17 14 (0.93%) PHP
18 13 (0.86%) Scala
19 11 (0.73%) VBA
20 10 (0.66%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 253 (16.80%) Degree
2 188 (12.48%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 50 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.66%) MCSE
9 20 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 18 (1.20%) MCSA
12 15 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 15 (1.00%) PMP
13 14 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 8 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.46%) ISEB
16 6 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
17 5 (0.33%) SAP Certification
18 4 (0.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.71%) Data Quality
1 71 (4.71%) QA
2 24 (1.59%) SLA
3 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.06%) GDPR
5 14 (0.93%) HL7
6 7 (0.46%) GxP
7 6 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.33%) GAMP
9 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.20%) IFRS
10 3 (0.20%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.13%) PMO
11 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.066%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.066%) HIPAA
System Software
1 90 (5.98%) Active Directory
1 90 (5.98%) Docker
2 41 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.66%) vSphere
5 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.27%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.20%) HDFS
8 2 (0.13%) GPFS
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.066%) Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) IAG
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.066%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (4.05%) Terraform
2 59 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.72%) Ansible
4 39 (2.59%) Grafana
5 13 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.40%) HP Fortify
8 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.40%) SCCM
9 5 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (0.33%) HP Data Protector
9 5 (0.33%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.27%) Kibana
10 4 (0.27%) SCOM
10 4 (0.27%) WSUS
11 3 (0.20%) Control-M
11 3 (0.20%) Nagios
11 3 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 251 (16.67%) Oracle
2 239 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 108 (7.17%) PayPal
4 53 (3.52%) VMware
5 51 (3.39%) Databricks
6 50 (3.32%) Google
7 39 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.12%) SAP
9 26 (1.73%) Informatica
10 23 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.39%) Avaloq
11 21 (1.39%) Splunk
12 17 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 13 (0.86%) IFS
14 12 (0.80%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.66%) Cisco
15 10 (0.66%) IBM
16 9 (0.60%) EMC
17 8 (0.53%) CA
17 8 (0.53%) HP