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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 28 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 17 37
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.31% 4.49% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 16.19% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 23
10th Percentile £434 £298 £370
25th Percentile £463 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £658 £625 £650
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £490
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £45.32 £57.25 -
25th Percentile £78.75 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £80.50 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.81% - -
75th Percentile £84.00 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 £63.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +27.78% +150.20% -28.06%

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 203 105 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 30.16% 27.70% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 36 82
10th Percentile £447 £338 £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £676 £578 £609
90th Percentile £739 £669 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 32 85
10th Percentile £53.22 £61.73 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.17% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £87.50 £88.75
90th Percentile £76.50 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £66.75 £66.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +1.14% +0.76% +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 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

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 December 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 +4 8 £550 +3.00% 41
Stevenage -14 8 £563 +80.00% 46
Welwyn Garden City +4 4 £488 -
Hemel Hempstead +1 4 £525 -4.55% 34
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 2 (6.90%) Apache
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) IIS
1 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Maximo
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 3 (10.34%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.90%) Apigee
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Boomi
4 2 (6.90%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) OCI
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Batch
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
5 1 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.45%) NAS
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.79%) Metadata
2 4 (13.79%) Tableau
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.90%) DataStage
4 2 (6.90%) DB2
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Publishing
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Marketing
4 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Consultant
2 4 (13.79%) Perl Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Data Integration Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) SSIS Specialist
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Maximo Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Support
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.45%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) SOAP
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 4 (13.79%) REST
3 3 (10.34%) EDI
3 3 (10.34%) JSON
3 3 (10.34%) React
3 3 (10.34%) XSLT
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (6.90%) Web Services
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) ADO
5 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.45%) Jest
5 1 (3.45%) Next.js
5 1 (3.45%) pytest
5 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
1 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Data Visualisation
1 9 (31.03%) Visualisation
2 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
2 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
3 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) ITSM
4 5 (17.24%) Validation
5 4 (13.79%) CRM
5 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
5 4 (13.79%) Data Extraction
5 4 (13.79%) ERP
5 4 (13.79%) Logistics
5 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
5 4 (13.79%) Perl
6 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) Bicep
7 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Control-M
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) BMC
2 2 (6.90%) Dell
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Talend
3 1 (3.45%) Aruba
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) HP
3 1 (3.45%) Veeam
3 1 (3.45%) VMware