SQL Contracts in Bedfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 7
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 4 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.13% 1.63% 17.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.44% 20.00% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 25
10th Percentile £505 £372 £316
25th Percentile £513 £385 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £410 £488
Median % change year-on-year +58.54% -15.90% +41.82%
75th Percentile £675 £453 £600
90th Percentile £686 £481 -
East of England median daily rate £459 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +1.94% +5.88% -

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 20 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.54% 8.13% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 33
10th Percentile £440 - £320
25th Percentile £506 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £600
90th Percentile £683 £568 -
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £41.06 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £60.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £71.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Bedfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bedford - 3 £650 - 66
Luton +1 1 - - 74
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP ERP
1 3 (37.50%) SAP EWM
1 3 (37.50%) SAP GTS
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) MS Access
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Automotive
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) SAP Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) ERP
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Mapping
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) ABAP
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (12.50%) Cognos
3 1 (12.50%) IBM