SQL Contracts in Cheltenham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 16 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 11.29% 6.99% 6.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 22.81% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 8
10th Percentile - £412 £319
25th Percentile £575 £523 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.73% +21.43%
75th Percentile £625 £581 £700
90th Percentile - £600 £708
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 57 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 45.16% 30.65% 45.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 44 45
10th Percentile - £374 £395
25th Percentile £575 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -21.43% +33.33%
75th Percentile £676 £681 -
90th Percentile £693 £764 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £550 £528
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.27% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £72.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -6.21% -7.05% +115.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware