SQL Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 16.98% 1.59% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.94% 10.00% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £300
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -47.37%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £750 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +12.67% -5.26% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 32.08% 15.87% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 12
10th Percentile £460 £600 £409
25th Percentile £563 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +16.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £635 £688
90th Percentile £750 - £721
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +3.31% +1.89% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -68.10%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Herefordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ledbury - 7 £650 - 1
Hereford +10 2 £400 -27.27% 7
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub
2 6 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (66.67%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Report Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 6 (66.67%) Flask
1 6 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 6 (66.67%) gRPC
1 6 (66.67%) REST
1 6 (66.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) Containerisation
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Case Management
2 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Go
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (66.67%) Grafana
2 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft