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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 18 49
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.84% 4.16% 6.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.90% 15.25% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 33
10th Percentile £434 £305 £400
25th Percentile £463 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £640 £650
East of England median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £23.03 £64.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% - -
East of England median hourly rate £23.03 £63.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -63.44% +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 186 118 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.76% 27.25% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 93
10th Percentile £447 £348 £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -4.45% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £584 £650
90th Percentile £739 £636 £704
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 42 90
10th Percentile £52.15 £61.60 -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £87.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year - -3.35% +3.46%

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 11 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
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 11 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 +6 8 £550 +3.00% 23
Welwyn Garden City +4 4 £488 -
Hemel Hempstead -1 4 £525 -8.70% 15
Stevenage -16 3 £450 +44.00% 20
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 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) IIS
1 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Maximo
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (8.33%) Apigee
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Boomi
3 2 (8.33%) dbt
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Batch
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.17%) NAS
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) Tableau
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.50%) DB2
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (8.33%) DataStage
6 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (4.17%) Redis
6 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Data Integration Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Data Migration Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) SSIS Specialist
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) SOAP
1 6 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (12.50%) EDI
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 3 (12.50%) XSLT
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) React
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) ADO
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) Jest
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.17%) pytest
4 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) RESTful
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Data Integration
3 5 (20.83%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (20.83%) ITSM
3 5 (20.83%) Validation
3 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
3 5 (20.83%) Workflow
4 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (16.67%) CRM
4 4 (16.67%) Data Extraction
4 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) ERP
4 4 (16.67%) Logistics
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Control-M
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 2 (8.33%) BMC
4 2 (8.33%) Dell
4 2 (8.33%) Talend
5 1 (4.17%) Aruba
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) HP
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) VMware