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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 35 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 21 24 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.62% 3.94% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.65% 16.90% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 46
10th Percentile £440 £294 £388
25th Percentile £463 £332 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £531
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -20.00% +11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £648
90th Percentile £600 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £503 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
East of England median hourly rate - £57.50 £20.56
% change year-on-year - +179.67% -41.26%

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 166 142 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 36.48% 23.32% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 48 105
10th Percentile £451 £325 £384
25th Percentile £495 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £688
90th Percentile £635 £625 £733
East of England median daily rate £503 £423 £500
% change year-on-year +18.93% -15.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 54 87
10th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £88.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £85.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +5 6 £550 +12.19% 21
Hemel Hempstead +5 4 £550 -8.33% 3
Stevenage -5 3 £406 +20.37% 15
Welwyn Garden City +1 2 £525 -
Broxbourne - 1 - - 1
Letchworth - 1 £500 - 2
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 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) IIS
1 5 (23.81%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DHCP
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
1 1 (4.76%) NAS
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (23.81%) DB2
3 4 (19.05%) Power BI
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (9.52%) Tableau
6 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Metadata
6 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Consultant
1 5 (23.81%) Maximo Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Data Integration Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 3 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (14.29%) SSIS Specialist
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) IT Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Maximo Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Scrum Master
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) SOAP
1 8 (38.10%) XML
2 5 (23.81%) Web Services
3 3 (14.29%) EDI
3 3 (14.29%) JSON
3 3 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) XSLT
4 2 (9.52%) J2EE
5 1 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (4.76%) ADO
5 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.76%) Jest
5 1 (4.76%) Next.js
5 1 (4.76%) pytest
5 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.76%) LIMS
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.76%) Replication
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
1 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (33.33%) Workflow
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) ITSM
2 6 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (23.81%) CAFM
3 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
3 5 (23.81%) Facilities Management
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Service Design
3 5 (23.81%) Service Management
3 5 (23.81%) System Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (19.05%) ERP
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
5 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) LabWare
5 1 (4.76%) Anaplan
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam
5 1 (4.76%) VMware