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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -19
Contract jobs citing SQL 28 25 37
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.46% 7.08% 4.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.77% 20.16% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 22
10th Percentile £413 £419 £331
25th Percentile £444 £446 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £575 £625
90th Percentile £708 £588 £649
East of England median daily rate £495 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +1.54% +8.33% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile - - £24.00
25th Percentile £78.75 £31.64 £52.50
Median hourly rate £80.50 £63.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +9.57% -10.85%
75th Percentile £83.13 £74.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.65 £82.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £29.48 £63.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -53.21% +14.55% -12.70%

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 167 124 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 20.64% 35.13% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 68 53
10th Percentile £333 £409 £325
25th Percentile £431 £478 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £668 £675 £648
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 34 114
10th Percentile £62.00 £40.91 £58.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile - £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 20 June 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
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 20 June 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 -8 11 £450 +12.50% 3
Watford -8 6 £463 -15.91% 4
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £675 - 2
Rickmansworth - 3 £475 -
Hatfield - 2 £705 - 1
Hemel Hempstead -12 1 £400 -27.27% 2
St Albans - 1 £650 - 4
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 (10.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Mendix
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe XD
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (10.71%) OCI
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) Boomi
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) Figma
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Metadata
2 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) QlikView
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) MS Access
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.57%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Newman
1 3 (10.71%) Postman
2 2 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.57%) Hudson
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Snyk
General
1 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Publishing
4 3 (10.71%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Automotive
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Billing
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Perl Developer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Perl Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Qlik Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) XML
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) Pandas
3 3 (10.71%) pytest
3 3 (10.71%) XML Schema
4 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (7.14%) Blazor
4 2 (7.14%) Great Expectations
4 2 (7.14%) XSD
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.57%) SOAP
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (17.86%) Reference Data
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Media
3 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.14%) Life Science
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
2 8 (28.57%) ETL
2 8 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (25.00%) Validation
4 6 (21.43%) Data Strategy
4 6 (21.43%) Metadata Management
5 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) CRM
5 5 (17.86%) Data Governance
5 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
5 5 (17.86%) ERP
6 4 (14.29%) Change Management
6 4 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (21.43%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Perl
4 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.14%) C
5 2 (7.14%) ProC
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) VB
6 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) GMP
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Databricks
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Adobe
5 1 (3.57%) IFS
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) NetApp
5 1 (3.57%) New Relic
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Workday