SQL Contract Job Trends in Dorchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Dorset > Dorchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorchester requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 3 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorchester 100.00% 28.57% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £398 £538 £375
% change year-on-year -25.91% +43.33% -45.45%

All Programming Languages
Dorchester

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 Dorchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorchester 100.00% 57.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £593 -
25th Percentile £525 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% - -
75th Percentile £575 £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £409 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -22.10% -19.23% +18.18%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorchester

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Dorchester

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Dorchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorchester citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorchester 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) SAP