SQL Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 8.74% 10.13% 9.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 30.77% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £418 £422 £446
25th Percentile £463 £436 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -21.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £546 £650
90th Percentile - £586 £678
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 26 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 29.13% 32.91% 52.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 50
10th Percentile £343 £400 £446
25th Percentile £411 £460 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% -2.65%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £650 £734 £728
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -10.26% +33.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Gloucester

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing SQL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Gloucester over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Gloucester

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing SQL

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 3 (33.33%) Flask
1 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 3 (33.33%) gRPC
1 3 (33.33%) REST
1 3 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
3 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) VMware