SQL Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 8.82% - 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £341 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.64%
75th Percentile £431 - £338
90th Percentile £454 - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £450 £550 £338
% change year-on-year -18.18% +62.96% -6.38%

All Programming Languages
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 26.47% 6.25% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £303 - £321
25th Percentile £313 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £200 £350
Median % change year-on-year +81.25% -42.86% -30.69%
75th Percentile £394 - £375
90th Percentile £431 - £390
Staffordshire median daily rate £388 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -3.13% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median hourly rate £27.50 £18.00 -
% change year-on-year +52.78% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

SQL job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Stoke-on-Trent

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AdminStudio
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) InstallShield
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks