HiveQL Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HiveQL
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring HiveQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 94 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing HiveQL 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.037% 0.29% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 1.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% - -
England median daily rate £450 £477 -
% change year-on-year -5.66% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

HiveQL 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 677 356 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.20% 25.50% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 212 301
10th Percentile £359 £343 £260
25th Percentile £425 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £487 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +8.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £578 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £660
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 13
10th Percentile £51.95 £16.95 £17.50
25th Percentile £54.88 £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -59.52% +127.27%
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £72.10 £54.00 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

HiveQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HiveQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

HiveQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

HiveQL
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HiveQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HiveQL

HiveQL
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HiveQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
Shropshire -47 1 £450 -5.66% 1
HiveQL
England

HiveQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Denodo
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend