SQL Contracts in Hertfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 23 16
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 35 59 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.25% 7.22% 8.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.82% 23.89% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 37
10th Percentile £344 £381 £327
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +4.45%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £525
90th Percentile £650 £650 £645
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 12
10th Percentile £24.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £35.00 £41.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% +0.51% +41.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.88 £56.00
90th Percentile - £65.55 £56.45
East of England median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% - +62.79%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 247 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.60% 30.23% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 101 125
10th Percentile £360 £363 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £676 £655
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 56
10th Percentile £60.00 - £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Watford +15 13 £450 -10.00% 15
Stevenage -12 11 £350 -9.68% 6
Hemel Hempstead +7 4 £588 -2.08% 1
Welwyn Garden City +5 2 £600 +29.73% 6
Hatfield -15 1 £275 -50.00% 1
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (14.29%) Apache
1 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) CMS
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Serverless
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (5.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (5.71%) dbt
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) Azure
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Big Data
2 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.57%) QlikView
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
3 2 (5.71%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Power BI
3 2 (5.71%) Presto
3 2 (5.71%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.86%) DTS
4 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.86%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 3 (8.57%) Maven
4 2 (5.71%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 5 (14.29%) Marketing
5 4 (11.43%) Games
6 2 (5.71%) Retail
7 1 (2.86%) Aviation
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Data Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Qlik Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Administrator
7 1 (2.86%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (14.29%) REST
3 4 (11.43%) CSS
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (8.57%) Visualforce
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) React
5 2 (5.71%) Web Services
6 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.86%) Flask
6 1 (2.86%) PySpark
6 1 (2.86%) React Native
6 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) FMCG
3 1 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
1 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Agile
1 10 (28.57%) ETL
2 8 (22.86%) Migration
2 8 (22.86%) Scrum
3 7 (20.00%) Change Management
3 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (17.14%) Data Management
4 6 (17.14%) Use Case
4 6 (17.14%) Validation
5 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.29%) Statistics
5 5 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
6 4 (11.43%) Content Development
6 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.57%) CRM
7 3 (8.57%) Facilities Management
7 3 (8.57%) OO
7 3 (8.57%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.86%) Bash
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) PMP
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle
1 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
1 3 (8.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Informatica
2 2 (5.71%) Talend
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Optimizely
3 1 (2.86%) Twitter