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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 37 25 27
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.30% 5.48% 4.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.59% 14.62% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 17
10th Percentile £341 £446 £298
25th Percentile £410 £466 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -16.47%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £630
East of England median daily rate £495 £503 £450
% change year-on-year -1.49% +11.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £60.15 - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.24% -47.27% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £57.50
% change year-on-year +121.24% -44.97% +179.67%

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 199 171 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 23.11% 37.50% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 75 48
10th Percentile £350 £455 £325
25th Percentile £453 £479 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +33.33% -21.43%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £506
90th Percentile £693 £628 £625
East of England median daily rate £505 £505 £420
% change year-on-year - +20.24% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 59 54
10th Percentile £62.00 £41.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.38 -
90th Percentile £88.50 £76.75 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -5.80%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +6 16 £450 +10.77% 3
Watford -8 4 £588 +6.82% 14
Welwyn Garden City +1 3 - - 2
Hatfield - 3 £700 - 5
Hemel Hempstead -16 2 £400 -27.27% 7
Rickmansworth - 2 £310 -
St Albans - 1 £650 - 5
Hitchin - 1 £288 - 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 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Mendix
3 1 (2.70%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.41%) dbt
5 2 (5.41%) OCI
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.70%) Figma
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Metadata
2 8 (21.62%) Data Mining
3 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) Power BI
5 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Power Query
6 1 (2.70%) QlikView
6 1 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Newman
1 4 (10.81%) Postman
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.70%) Hudson
General
1 20 (54.05%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Law
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Data Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Data Architect
4 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) Data Migration Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) DBA
7 1 (2.70%) ETL Tester
7 1 (2.70%) Migration Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) XML
2 6 (16.22%) REST
3 5 (13.51%) pytest
4 4 (10.81%) Pandas
4 4 (10.81%) XML Schema
5 3 (8.11%) .NET
5 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.11%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (8.11%) Blazor
5 3 (8.11%) Great Expectations
6 2 (5.41%) JSON
6 2 (5.41%) XSD
7 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
7 1 (2.70%) Kafka
7 1 (2.70%) PySpark
7 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.70%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Management Information System
2 8 (21.62%) Reference Data
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.41%) Life Science
5 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.70%) IoT
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Mashup
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
3 14 (37.84%) Validation
4 12 (32.43%) ETL
5 10 (27.03%) Data Architecture
5 10 (27.03%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (27.03%) Logical Data Model
5 10 (27.03%) Visualisation
6 9 (24.32%) Conceptual Models
6 9 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (24.32%) Data Strategy
6 9 (24.32%) Metadata Management
6 9 (24.32%) Migration
7 8 (21.62%) Data Migration
8 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
8 7 (18.92%) DevOps
9 6 (16.22%) Analytics
9 6 (16.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (13.51%) Data Validation
10 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) C#
2 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.41%) C
3 2 (5.41%) ProC
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (43.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (24.32%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.41%) Adobe
4 2 (5.41%) IFS
5 1 (2.70%) Braze
5 1 (2.70%) Kepware
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Planon
5 1 (2.70%) PTC
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud