SQL Contract Job Trends in Taunton

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 4.23% - 15.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £531 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.69%
75th Percentile £675 - £600
90th Percentile £720 - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -14.81%

All Programming Languages
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 29.58% 14.29% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £400 £877 -
25th Percentile £413 £906 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £983 £575
Median % change year-on-year -54.83% +70.87% -16.58%
75th Percentile £563 £1,081 £600
90th Percentile £600 £1,122 -
Somerset median daily rate £524 £488 £463
% change year-on-year +7.44% +5.41% +2.78%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

SQL job vacancy trend in Taunton

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Taunton over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Taunton

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
1 1 (33.33%) webpack
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GeoJSON
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) ATL
2 1 (33.33%) Blazor
2 1 (33.33%) COM
2 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) MFC
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SignalR
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Design
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Database Security
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Hydrography
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe
3 1 (33.33%) Google