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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL 12 2 23
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 6.67% 3.45% 17.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.55% 33.33% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £394 - £321
25th Percentile £406 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.27%
75th Percentile £450 - £472
90th Percentile £525 - £575
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.20% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile - - £34.20
Median hourly rate - - £34.47
75th Percentile - - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% +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 22 6 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.22% 10.34% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 18
10th Percentile £366 - £306
25th Percentile £406 £425 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £469 £475 £522
90th Percentile £628 - £549
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £492
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% +3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile - - £34.20
Median hourly rate - - £34.47
75th Percentile - - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.75 £50.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -6.50% -11.11% +204.05%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 - 22
Uttoxeter - 3 £450 - 1
Stafford -7 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 4 (33.33%) Power Query
1 4 (33.33%) Spark SQL
1 4 (33.33%) Tableau
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Hudson
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IFS Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) PySpark
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 4 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Data Fabric
3 2 (16.67%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (8.33%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Mapping
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Defect Management
4 4 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Databricks
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) IFS