SQL Contract Job Trends in Dunstable

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Bedfordshire > Dunstable

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dunstable requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dunstable 25.00% - 5.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £395
75th Percentile £613 - £398
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £563 £625 £375
% change year-on-year -10.00% +66.67% -27.88%

All Programming Languages
Dunstable

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 Dunstable.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dunstable 25.00% 20.00% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 £575 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £395
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +51.90% -15.96%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £398
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -5.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Dunstable

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Dunstable

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Dunstable

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dunstable citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dunstable 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Pricing Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk