SQL Contract Job Trends in Dudley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Dudley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dudley requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Dudley 100.00% - 50.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile £400 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £525
75th Percentile £430 - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £460 £425
% change year-on-year +0.54% +8.24% -19.05%

All Programming Languages
Dudley

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 Dudley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dudley 100.00% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £336
25th Percentile £400 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - £450
75th Percentile £430 - £547
90th Percentile - - £564
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -14.29%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Dudley

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Dudley

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Daily Rate Trend in Dudley

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dudley citing SQL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dudley

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dudley citing SQL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dudley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (57.14%) API Integration
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) ETL Development
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks