SQL Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -34 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 17 37 58
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 2.91% 7.60% 7.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.35% 55.22% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 40
10th Percentile £385 £400 £424
25th Percentile £450 £468 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.13%
75th Percentile £706 £588 £603
90th Percentile £725 £675 £677
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 98 67 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.78% 13.76% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 53 115
10th Percentile £453 £413 £435
25th Percentile £525 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £715 £613 £625
90th Percentile £725 £695 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.90
25th Percentile - - £61.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £69.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Wiltshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Corsham -26 10 £625 +13.64%
Swindon +1 4 £465 -2.11% 23
Melksham - 1 - -
SQL
South West

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Documentum
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Skype
2 3 (17.65%) VSAN
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) DHCP
4 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 4 (23.53%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Looker
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Security Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ModSecurity
1 2 (11.76%) SailPoint
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows 10
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (17.65%) CentOS
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 5 (29.41%) NsoIT
2 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) System Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
4 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
4 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Anomaly Detection
5 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 4 (23.53%) MCSE
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) MCSA
6 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (17.65%) OPNET
1 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
1 3 (17.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) ForgeRock
4 2 (11.76%) Micro Focus
4 2 (11.76%) NetIQ
4 2 (11.76%) Okta
5 1 (5.88%) OpenText