SQL Contracts in Hertfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 37 24
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 21 36 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.69% 4.27% 7.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.67% 19.25% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 51
10th Percentile £446 £333 £381
25th Percentile £475 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £588 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile - £24.00 £61.95
25th Percentile - £52.50 £62.63
Median hourly rate £31.64 £57.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.97% -10.85% +84.29%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.63
90th Percentile £65.40 - £65.85
East of England median hourly rate £47.32 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -13.96% -12.70% +80.00%

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 134 187 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.31% 22.18% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 50 107
10th Percentile £423 £325 £363
25th Percentile £479 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £675
90th Percentile £658 £650 £725
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 107 81
10th Percentile £48.30 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +19.09%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.07%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

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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 3 July 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
Stevenage +13 8 £400 +17.65% 5
Watford +9 7 £550 +22.22% 23
Hemel Hempstead +7 2 £550 -8.33% 11
Letchworth - 1 £500 - 1
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 4 (19.05%) Apache
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) DB2
2 5 (23.81%) Power BI
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) InfluxDB
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Maximo Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.52%) IFS Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Information Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Information Systems Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Excel Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) SOAP
1 4 (19.05%) Web Services
1 4 (19.05%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) J2EE
2 2 (9.52%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
1 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Facilities Management
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Analytics
3 4 (19.05%) CAFM
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) ITSM
3 4 (19.05%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (19.05%) Service Design
3 4 (19.05%) Service Management
3 4 (19.05%) System Testing
3 4 (19.05%) Workflow
4 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 3 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) IFS
4 2 (9.52%) LabWare
5 1 (4.76%) Anaplan
5 1 (4.76%) SAP