SQL Contracts in Hertfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL 32 54 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.86% 7.06% 7.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 22.69% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 46 32
10th Percentile £343 £381 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £458
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -0.82% +3.98%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £638
90th Percentile £650 £594 £713
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £24.00 £61.95 £34.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £64.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +40.22% +32.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £49.38
90th Percentile - £65.85 £52.30
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +120.00% -28.57% +78.34%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 184 238 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 22.17% 31.11% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 98 127
10th Percentile £356 £361 £346
25th Percentile £372 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -1.77% -0.20%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £711
East of England median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 80 52
10th Percentile £59.75 £53.75 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.63 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.88 £87.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +32.54%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in Hertfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Stevenage -3 13 £344 -11.29% 6
Watford +8 8 £450 -10.00% 15
Hemel Hempstead +1 4 £588 -2.08% 1
Welwyn Garden City +4 2 £600 +29.73% 5
Hatfield -14 1 £275 -50.00% 4
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (6.25%) IIS
1 2 (6.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) dbt
3 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.38%) QlikView
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.13%) DTS
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) MS Access
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Aerospace
4 6 (18.75%) Finance
5 5 (15.63%) Marketing
6 4 (12.50%) Games
7 2 (6.25%) Retail
8 1 (3.13%) Aviation
8 1 (3.13%) Law
8 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Qlik Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Data Migration Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Data Migration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Data Modeller
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) HTML
2 4 (12.50%) CSS
3 3 (9.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (9.38%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) Visualforce
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 2 (6.25%) Web Services
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.13%) React
5 1 (3.13%) React Native
5 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) FMCG
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Agile
1 9 (28.13%) Data Management
1 9 (28.13%) Use Case
1 9 (28.13%) Validation
2 8 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
3 7 (21.88%) Change Management
3 7 (21.88%) Content Development
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
3 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (21.88%) Scrum
4 6 (18.75%) ETL
5 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.50%) OO
6 4 (12.50%) OOP
6 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 4 (12.50%) Statistics
7 3 (9.38%) CAFM
7 3 (9.38%) Facilities Management
7 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) PHP
5 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.25%) PMP
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.13%) Puppet
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle
1 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
1 3 (9.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Optimizely
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Twitter