SQL Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 97 19 2
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 27.02% 16.96% 4.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.43% 50.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 16 1
10th Percentile £424 £473 -
25th Percentile £470 £482 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% +54.23% -39.81%
75th Percentile £537 £567 £338
90th Percentile £540 £570 -
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £484 £475
% change year-on-year +6.40% +1.89% -9.52%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 175 38 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 48.75% 33.93% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 29 3
10th Percentile £400 £420 -
25th Percentile £450 £435 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £490 £325
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +50.77% -39.59%
75th Percentile £535 £540 £444
90th Percentile £552 £567 £508
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +10.00% -10.89%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in Shropshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Shropshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Shropshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Telford +2 89 £515 +2.75% 10
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 37 (38.14%) WebLogic
2 33 (34.02%) SAS
3 22 (22.68%) Apache
4 9 (9.28%) Tuxedo
5 8 (8.25%) JBoss
6 2 (2.06%) Anypoint
7 1 (1.03%) Confluence
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.90%) AWS
2 20 (20.62%) Azure
3 14 (14.43%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (8.25%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.15%) Serverless
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.06%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.03%) IaaS
8 1 (1.03%) PaaS
8 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.03%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (38.14%) Pentaho
2 17 (17.53%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.22%) Oracle Database
4 6 (6.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (47.42%) Git
2 34 (35.05%) JIRA
3 33 (34.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.28%) JUnit
5 8 (8.25%) Eclipse
5 8 (8.25%) IntelliJ
5 8 (8.25%) MSI
5 8 (8.25%) Selenium
6 3 (3.09%) GitLab
7 2 (2.06%) Gatling
7 2 (2.06%) Toad
8 1 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.03%) Maven
8 1 (1.03%) Mockito
General
1 34 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.25%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Finance
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (19.59%) Data Engineer
2 10 (10.31%) Java Engineer
3 8 (8.25%) Monitoring Engineer
4 7 (7.22%) Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (5.15%) Lead
5 5 (5.15%) SAS Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.12%) Senior
6 4 (4.12%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Denodo Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) MuleSoft Architect
8 2 (2.06%) Power Apps Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) QA Leader
8 2 (2.06%) Technical Architect
8 2 (2.06%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) Spring
2 14 (14.43%) REST
3 11 (11.34%) JSON
3 11 (11.34%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.34%) XML
4 9 (9.28%) Hibernate
4 9 (9.28%) SOAP
5 8 (8.25%) EJB
5 8 (8.25%) HTML
5 8 (8.25%) HTML5
5 8 (8.25%) J2EE
5 8 (8.25%) J2SE
5 8 (8.25%) Play Framework
6 7 (7.22%) Swagger
7 3 (3.09%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.09%) Flask
7 3 (3.09%) NumPy
7 3 (3.09%) Pandas
7 3 (3.09%) RESTful
7 3 (3.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.93%) Unix
2 26 (26.80%) Windows
3 17 (17.53%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 51 (52.58%) Agile
3 50 (51.55%) Analytics
4 48 (49.48%) CI/CD
4 48 (49.48%) DevOps
5 45 (46.39%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (46.39%) Scrum
6 42 (43.30%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (38.14%) Deployment Automation
7 37 (38.14%) ETL
8 34 (35.05%) Test Automation
9 33 (34.02%) Data Modelling
9 33 (34.02%) Data Virtualisation
10 30 (30.93%) Data Integration
11 29 (29.90%) Data Analytics
11 29 (29.90%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (25.77%) Business Analytics
13 20 (20.62%) Visualisation
14 17 (17.53%) Microservices
15 15 (15.46%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.84%) Java
2 9 (9.28%) PL/SQL
2 9 (9.28%) Scala
3 4 (4.12%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.09%) Python
5 2 (2.06%) COBOL
6 1 (1.03%) Bash
6 1 (1.03%) C
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) Perl
6 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (71.13%) Security Cleared
2 65 (67.01%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) ISEB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (28.87%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) QA
System Software
1 42 (43.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (43.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Puppet
3 3 (3.09%) Kibana
4 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (59.79%) Oracle
2 38 (39.18%) Talend
3 33 (34.02%) Denodo
4 17 (17.53%) Dynatrace
5 16 (16.49%) Splunk
6 15 (15.46%) AppDynamics
7 13 (13.40%) Cisco
8 11 (11.34%) webMethods
9 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
10 6 (6.19%) Fujitsu
11 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.12%) Informatica
13 2 (2.06%) MuleSoft
13 2 (2.06%) PagerDuty
13 2 (2.06%) SAP
14 1 (1.03%) ICL
14 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
14 1 (1.03%) Trillium