SQL Contract Job Trends in Stafford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Staffordshire > Stafford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stafford requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stafford 11.11% 40.00% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £334 -
25th Percentile £500 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% - -
75th Percentile £600 £363 -
90th Percentile - £366 -
Staffordshire median daily rate £463 £363 £425
% change year-on-year +27.59% -14.71% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Staffordshire median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Programming Languages
Stafford

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 Stafford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stafford 11.11% 60.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £334 £458
25th Percentile £500 £338 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £650
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -46.15% +52.94%
75th Percentile £600 £363 -
90th Percentile - £366 -
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 £363 £463
% change year-on-year +6.90% -21.62% +21.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
Staffordshire median hourly rate - £19.12 -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Stafford

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Stafford

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Stafford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stafford citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Stafford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stafford citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stafford 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IFS