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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 32 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 36 21 39
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.37% 4.96% 5.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 12.96% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £388 £446 £318
25th Percentile £421 £488 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -15.29%
75th Percentile £647 £575 £625
90th Percentile £702 £588 £646
East of England median daily rate £484 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -3.25% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £45.38 - £24.00
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.64 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.24% -44.97% -
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £53.00 £31.64 £55.00
% change year-on-year +67.51% -42.47% +167.51%

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 180 162 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 21.84% 38.30% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 53
10th Percentile £350 £431 £325
25th Percentile £453 £484 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £691 £669 £648
East of England median daily rate £505 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +1.00% +7.53% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 55 86
10th Percentile £62.00 £47.50 £58.75
25th Percentile - £55.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.25 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.94% - -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +4 12 £450 +12.50% 5
Watford -7 7 £525 -4.55% 6
Welwyn Garden City - 4 £675 -
Hatfield - 3 £700 - 2
Rickmansworth - 3 £475 -
Hemel Hempstead -13 2 £400 -27.27%
Hitchin - 1 £288 -
St Albans - 1 £650 - 2
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 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub
3 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) OCI
4 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.56%) dbt
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) Figma
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) LAN
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Metadata
2 5 (13.89%) Data Mining
3 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 3 (8.33%) QlikView
4 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) MS Access
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Newman
1 4 (11.11%) Postman
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.78%) Hudson
4 1 (2.78%) Snyk
General
1 15 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Automotive
5 2 (5.56%) Billing
5 2 (5.56%) Law
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Data Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Qlik Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) XML
2 5 (13.89%) REST
3 4 (11.11%) Pandas
3 4 (11.11%) pytest
3 4 (11.11%) XML Schema
4 3 (8.33%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (8.33%) Blazor
4 3 (8.33%) Great Expectations
5 2 (5.56%) XSD
6 1 (2.78%) JSON
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) Spring
6 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.89%) Reference Data
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Media
6 2 (5.56%) Life Science
6 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.78%) Clustering
7 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.78%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (30.56%) ETL
2 11 (30.56%) Validation
3 10 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
6 7 (19.44%) Data Architecture
6 7 (19.44%) Logical Data Model
6 7 (19.44%) Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
7 6 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (16.67%) Data Strategy
7 6 (16.67%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) ERP
7 6 (16.67%) Metadata Management
8 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
8 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) C#
2 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.56%) C
3 2 (5.56%) ProC
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.78%) VB
4 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CISM
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (13.89%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) GMP
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Databricks
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) Adobe
4 2 (5.56%) IFS
5 1 (2.78%) Braze
5 1 (2.78%) Informatica
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) New Relic
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Talend
5 1 (2.78%) VMware