SQL Contract Job Trends in Bath

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 10.42% 1.52% 3.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 5.56% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £314
25th Percentile - £413 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £338
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +25.93% -22.64%
75th Percentile £463 £438 £366
90th Percentile £530 - £371
Somerset median daily rate £438 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -2.78% +12.50% -25.58%

All Programming Languages
Bath

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 Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15 18 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 31.25% 27.27% 31.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 18
10th Percentile £350 £394 £325
25th Percentile £390 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -5.41% -4.15%
75th Percentile £450 £518 £563
90th Percentile £461 £649 £575
Somerset median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -12.43%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bath

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bath

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bath over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bath

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Power Query
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Research Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks