SQL Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 7.76% 5.00% 11.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 42.86% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £394 - £320
25th Percentile £406 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.27%
75th Percentile £450 - £438
90th Percentile £525 - £493
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.00% +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.93
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -57.00% +55.52% +27.33%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 18.10% 11.67% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 17
10th Percentile £317 - £306
25th Percentile £381 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% -13.27%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £475
90th Percentile £495 - £538
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £454 £460
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.37% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £33.93
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +16.00% -11.11% +128.43%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 3 £413 - 3
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 -
Lichfield -1 1 - -
Stafford -4 1 - -
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Delta Lake
1 4 (44.44%) Spark SQL
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) IFS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Fabric
1 2 (22.22%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Dimensional Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Data Management
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) IFS