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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 19 48
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.88% 4.06% 6.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.66% 15.45% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 36
10th Percentile £423 £279 £381
25th Percentile £459 £328 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £465 £539
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -13.64% +10.51%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £645
90th Percentile £581 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £503 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.63% -20.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £53.00 -

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 166 123 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.14% 26.28% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 45 105
10th Percentile £442 £318 £400
25th Percentile £488 £345 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £679 £615 £725
East of England median daily rate £502 £420 £493
% change year-on-year +19.40% -14.72% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 34 89
10th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 -
25th Percentile - £64.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.44 £84.36
90th Percentile £76.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +11.67%

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 6 November 2025.

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
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 6 November 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
Watford +7 8 £550 +3.68% 26
Hemel Hempstead +1 5 £550 -4.35% 8
Welwyn Garden City +4 4 £488 - 2
Stevenage -7 4 £413 +26.92% 19
Broxbourne - 1 - - 1
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 5 (19.23%) Apache
1 5 (19.23%) IIS
1 5 (19.23%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Maximo
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) dbt
2 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Batch
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.85%) IaaS
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) DHCP
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.85%) NAS
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (19.23%) DB2
2 5 (19.23%) Power BI
3 4 (15.38%) Tableau
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.85%) Redis
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Consultant
2 5 (19.23%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Data Integration Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) SSIS Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Data Modeller
4 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Applications Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) SOAP
1 8 (30.77%) XML
2 5 (19.23%) Web Services
3 3 (11.54%) EDI
3 3 (11.54%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) REST
3 3 (11.54%) XSLT
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) J2EE
4 2 (7.69%) React
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.85%) ADO
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) Jest
5 1 (3.85%) Next.js
5 1 (3.85%) pytest
5 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.85%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.85%) LIMS
1 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
1 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) Workflow
3 6 (23.08%) ITSM
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
3 6 (23.08%) Service Management
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) CAFM
4 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
4 5 (19.23%) ERP
4 5 (19.23%) Facilities Management
4 5 (19.23%) Service Design
4 5 (19.23%) System Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) CRM
5 4 (15.38%) Data Extraction
5 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 4 (15.38%) Validation
5 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) GxP
3 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) IBM
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) LabWare
5 1 (3.85%) Anaplan
5 1 (3.85%) Aruba
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam
5 1 (3.85%) VMware