SQL Contracts in Staffordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.35% 11.38% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 58.33% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 16
10th Percentile - £320 £296
25th Percentile £525 £369 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £438 £503
90th Percentile - £493 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +5.88% -11.46% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.93 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £32.15 £25.25
% change year-on-year +55.52% +27.33% +44.29%

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 8 24 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.70% 19.51% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 18
10th Percentile £245 £309 £310
25th Percentile £313 £325 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £525 £447 £508
90th Percentile £555 £538 £562
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.93 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Staffordshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Staffordshire

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 6 July 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
Lichfield 0 2 £550 - 3
Stafford -1 2 - - 12
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Boomi
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ERP Support
3 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) MACH
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) R
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle