SQL Contracts in Worcestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 4.35% 6.67% 5.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 66.67% 22.73% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile - £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% -10.53% +1.39%
75th Percentile - £475 £613
90th Percentile - £520 £658
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +8.82% -19.05% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3 22 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 6.52% 29.33% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 24
10th Percentile £580 £420 £363
25th Percentile £625 £438 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £606
90th Percentile - £582 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Worcestershire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Worcestershire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Worcestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Malvern +1 2 £700 +75.00% 1
Worcester -7 2 £700 +55.56% 70
SQL
West Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform