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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 2 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 5.08% 16.92% 5.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 59.46% 40.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 7
10th Percentile - £320 -
25th Percentile - £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -13.27% +24.44%
75th Percentile - £438 £498
90th Percentile - £493 £504
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
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 7 37 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 11.86% 28.46% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 17 19
10th Percentile - £306 £395
25th Percentile £425 £325 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £575
90th Percentile - £538 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +204.05% -58.89%

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
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

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 18 September 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 -4 2 - - 2
Lichfield 0 1 - -
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Boomi
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ERP Support
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) MACH
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle