SQL Contract Job Trends in Bedford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 5.88% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% +25.79%

All Programming Languages
Bedford

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 Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 11.76% - 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Bedford

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bedford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedford citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI