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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 1 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 1 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.59% 20.49% 6.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 62.50% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £351 £396
25th Percentile - £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile - £438 £495
90th Percentile - £575 £497
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +9.81% +4.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year +42.86% - -

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 5 40 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 7.94% 32.79% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 20
10th Percentile - £306 £375
25th Percentile £425 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.14% +25.71%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £575
90th Percentile - £545 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -12.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%

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
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

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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 29 October 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
Stafford -6 1 - - 5
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ERP Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft