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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 20 50
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.17% 3.87% 6.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.95% 15.87% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 38
10th Percentile £425 £283 £389
25th Percentile £463 £333 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £531
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -0.14% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £627
90th Percentile - - £723
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 - £60.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £55.00 -

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 163 126 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 32.41% 24.37% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 101
10th Percentile £450 £314 £400
25th Percentile £476 £336 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £416 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.13% -16.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £675
90th Percentile £649 £625 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £495
% change year-on-year +19.11% -15.15% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 41 90
10th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £84.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +20.00%

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 22 October 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 22 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
Watford +6 8 £550 -2.70% 20
Hemel Hempstead +4 5 £550 -4.35% 7
Stevenage -8 4 £413 +26.92% 13
Welwyn Garden City +3 3 £488 - 1
Letchworth -1 1 £500 -16.67% 2
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 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
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 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) dbt
3 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Batch
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 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 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (11.54%) Tableau
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Retail
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
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%) Data Modeller
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%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Insight Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Maximo Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior IT 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%) Legacy Systems
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%) Data Modelling
4 5 (19.23%) ERP
4 5 (19.23%) Facilities Management
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
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%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) 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%) Azure 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
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
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