SQL Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 36
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 24 35
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.43% 7.34% 4.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.51% 20.17% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 20
10th Percentile £410 £446 £332
25th Percentile £438 £468 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -0.83%
75th Percentile £631 £578 £606
90th Percentile £688 £588 £650
East of England median daily rate £495 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +0.25% +9.72% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile £45.32 - £24.00
25th Percentile £78.75 £31.64 £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.50 £63.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +9.57% -10.85%
75th Percentile £84.00 £70.06 £60.00
90th Percentile - £82.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £29.48 £63.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -53.21% +14.55% +25.00%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 187 119 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.10% 36.39% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 50
10th Percentile £325 £438 £344
25th Percentile £425 £489 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £584
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £477
% change year-on-year - +4.82% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 34 110
10th Percentile £62.00 £40.91 £59.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +6.54% -
75th Percentile - £84.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £85.00 £88.88
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% +0.77% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
Stevenage -14 12 £563 - 3
Watford -6 10 £463 -15.91% 8
Rickmansworth - 3 £475 -
Hemel Hempstead -13 1 £400 -27.27% 3
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £675 - 1
St Albans - 1 £650 - 5
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Boomi
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) Apigee
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.90%) OCI
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.45%) dbt
5 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Metadata
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) QlikView
4 2 (6.90%) DataStage
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) MS Access
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Newman
1 3 (10.34%) Postman
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Hudson
3 1 (3.45%) Snyk
General
1 13 (44.83%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Publishing
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Automotive
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Perl Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Perl Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Qlik Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) IFS Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Pandas
1 3 (10.34%) pytest
1 3 (10.34%) REST
1 3 (10.34%) XML
1 3 (10.34%) XML Schema
2 2 (6.90%) Great Expectations
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.90%) XSD
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Blazor
3 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (17.24%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Digital Media
3 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.90%) Life Science
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Data Visualisation
2 10 (34.48%) Visualisation
3 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
3 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 7 (24.14%) Data Architecture
4 7 (24.14%) Data Strategy
4 7 (24.14%) Metadata Management
4 7 (24.14%) Validation
5 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.24%) CRM
6 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) Change Management
7 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
7 4 (13.79%) ERP
7 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.34%) Predictive Modelling
8 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) GMP
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
3 1 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Control-M
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.34%) Talend
4 2 (6.90%) BMC
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) IFS
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) NetApp
5 1 (3.45%) New Relic
5 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Workday