SQL Contracts in Telford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 28 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 22.76% 8.26% 42.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.67% 13.89% 75.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 24
10th Percentile £400 £500 £518
25th Percentile £453 £506 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £515 - £553
90th Percentile £524 £560 £586
Shropshire median daily rate £460 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 72 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 34.15% 59.50% 56.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 33
10th Percentile £401 £309 £518
25th Percentile £453 £474 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -0.93% +9.09%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £595
90th Percentile £538 - £597
Shropshire median daily rate £463 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -13.55% -0.93% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Telford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Telford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Telford over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Telford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Telford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 7 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (46.43%) PowerApps
4 9 (32.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) HDInsight
2 1 (3.57%) IDMS
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) GitLab
3 5 (17.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) CA Gen
5 1 (3.57%) ClearCase
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) Maven
5 1 (3.57%) Toad
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
1 8 (28.57%) Lead
2 7 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.14%) Tester
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Power Apps Developer
7 1 (3.57%) QA Leader
7 1 (3.57%) SAP Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) SAP Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) CSS
1 2 (7.14%) HTML
1 2 (7.14%) Next.js
1 2 (7.14%) React
1 2 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Unix
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 12 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 12 (42.86%) Process Improvement
5 11 (39.29%) Configuration Management
5 11 (39.29%) OO
5 11 (39.29%) Problem Management
6 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Microservices
8 3 (10.71%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
9 2 (7.14%) Integration Testing
9 2 (7.14%) Test Scripting
9 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Java
1 5 (17.86%) PL/SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) COBOL
4 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.14%) ISEB
3 2 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) IBM
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) webMethods