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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 21 31
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.93% 5.63% 4.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.26% 22.58% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 19
10th Percentile £425 £429 £363
25th Percentile £443 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £544 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +11.54% +14.71%
75th Percentile £663 £575 £594
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
East of England median daily rate £550 £469 £463
% change year-on-year +17.33% +1.35% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £45.32 £60.65 £26.85
25th Percentile £78.75 £61.50 £31.13
Median hourly rate £80.50 £66.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.97% +67.09% -37.30%
75th Percentile £84.00 - £49.13
90th Percentile - £82.25 £54.15
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 £66.00 £30.59
% change year-on-year +21.97% +115.76% -28.02%

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 190 93 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.78% 24.93% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 38 65
10th Percentile £385 £396 £363
25th Percentile £455 £430 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +16.28% -21.82%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £613
90th Percentile £713 £675 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £465 £479
% change year-on-year +7.64% -3.03% -4.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 34 110
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £61.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £73.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £68.00 £66.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +1.54% -

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -18 12 £675 - 5
Watford +4 9 £440 -18.14% 14
Welwyn Garden City - 4 £563 -
Hemel Hempstead -3 2 £525 -4.55% 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
1 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (10.34%) Boomi
2 3 (10.34%) OCI
3 2 (6.90%) Apigee
3 2 (6.90%) dbt
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Batch
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Metadata
2 5 (17.24%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (10.34%) Tableau
4 2 (6.90%) DataStage
4 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) MS Access
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Snyk
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (44.83%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Publishing
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
2 4 (13.79%) Perl Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Financials Support
4 2 (6.90%) Perl Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Insight Consultant
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) SSIS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (10.34%) React
1 3 (10.34%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) Blazor
3 1 (3.45%) EDI
3 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.45%) Jest
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) Next.js
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) XSLT
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (17.24%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
2 10 (34.48%) Data Visualisation
2 10 (34.48%) Visualisation
3 6 (20.69%) Agile
3 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (20.69%) Data Architecture
3 6 (20.69%) Data Strategy
3 6 (20.69%) Metadata Management
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) ERP
5 4 (13.79%) CRM
5 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (13.79%) Validation
6 3 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (10.34%) Cash Management
6 3 (10.34%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) Perl
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.90%) PMO
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) GMP
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Control-M
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Talend
4 2 (6.90%) BMC
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) NetApp
5 1 (3.45%) New Relic
5 1 (3.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Workday