SQL Contracts in Berkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 18 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 124 176 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.28% 9.70% 10.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 40.37% 46.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 142 198
10th Percentile £311 £363 £352
25th Percentile £400 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £649 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £686 £641
South East median daily rate £475 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -7.09% +2.25% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £57.28 £69.10 -
25th Percentile £58.96 £75.25 -
Median hourly rate £63.82 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year +82.37% +50.23% -6.52%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 372 436 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.84% 24.04% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 322 395
10th Percentile £325 £363 £357
25th Percentile £413 £432 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +6.60% +9.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £576
90th Percentile £688 £693 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 4
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.99 £63.18
25th Percentile £56.65 £53.59 £64.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £72.95
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -4.04% +88.26%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £82.18
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.72 £85.37
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Reading -5 91 £525 -2.33% 17
Bracknell +1 14 £325 -24.20% 9
Newbury +1 8 £350 -6.67%
Maidenhead -7 2 £255 -43.33% 1
Wokingham -8 2 £475 -9.52% 2
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (13.71%) SAS
2 12 (9.68%) Apache
3 11 (8.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (4.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Jadu
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) SPSS
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.97%) Azure
2 24 (19.35%) AWS
3 13 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (5.65%) Azure Functions
6 7 (5.65%) Serverless
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.23%) PaaS
10 3 (2.42%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.42%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.42%) GCP
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) VPN
2 11 (8.87%) BGP
2 11 (8.87%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (8.87%) MPLS
2 11 (8.87%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (4.03%) Firewall
4 3 (2.42%) FTP
5 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.81%) SNMP
6 1 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (24.19%) Oracle Database
3 21 (16.94%) Oracle Database 11g
4 20 (16.13%) SQL Server
5 18 (14.52%) NoSQL
6 13 (10.48%) Power BI
7 11 (8.87%) MongoDB
7 11 (8.87%) Tableau
8 10 (8.06%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (7.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
11 7 (5.65%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (4.84%) MySQL
13 4 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (2.42%) GIS
14 3 (2.42%) RDBMS
15 2 (1.61%) Big Data
15 2 (1.61%) DB2
15 2 (1.61%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 17 (13.71%) JIRA
2 11 (8.87%) GitLab
2 11 (8.87%) Robot Framework
2 11 (8.87%) TestRail
3 5 (4.03%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.23%) Git
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 21 (16.94%) Telecoms
2 16 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.68%) Finance
4 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.42%) Local Government
6 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (29.84%) Developer
2 18 (14.52%) Analyst
3 16 (12.90%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.10%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 14 (11.29%) Test Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Network Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Senior
8 8 (6.45%) Consultant
8 8 (6.45%) DBA
9 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Database Specialist
9 7 (5.65%) IFS Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Architect
10 5 (4.03%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Product Manager
10 5 (4.03%) SQL Analyst
10 5 (4.03%) SQL Data Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
11 4 (3.23%) Report Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.90%) REST
2 15 (12.10%) SOAP
3 11 (8.87%) NETCONF
3 11 (8.87%) RESTCONF
3 11 (8.87%) YANG
4 8 (6.45%) XML
5 7 (5.65%) D3.js
6 6 (4.84%) .NET
7 4 (3.23%) JSON
8 3 (2.42%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.42%) OAuth
8 3 (2.42%) OpenID
9 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.61%) RESTful
10 1 (0.81%) HTML
10 1 (0.81%) NumPy
10 1 (0.81%) Pandas
10 1 (0.81%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.81%) Symfony
10 1 (0.81%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.23%) Smart Meter
4 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) CCTV
5 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Unix
2 13 (10.48%) Linux
3 10 (8.06%) Windows
4 4 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (25.81%) Unit Testing
2 28 (22.58%) DevOps
3 27 (21.77%) Migration
4 25 (20.16%) Analytics
4 25 (20.16%) Software Testing
5 23 (18.55%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (17.74%) Agile
6 22 (17.74%) Data Migration
7 21 (16.94%) Scrum
8 18 (14.52%) Architectural Design
8 18 (14.52%) Secure Coding
8 18 (14.52%) Software Engineering
9 17 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (13.71%) Clean Code
10 16 (12.90%) Data Modelling
10 16 (12.90%) Security Testing
10 16 (12.90%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.10%) CI/CD
11 15 (12.10%) Data Analytics
12 13 (10.48%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.97%) Python
2 22 (17.74%) PL/SQL
3 13 (10.48%) C#
4 7 (5.65%) R
5 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.03%) Java
7 3 (2.42%) F#
7 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.81%) Bash
9 1 (0.81%) Groovy
9 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.81%) PHP
9 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.29%) Degree
4 8 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) QA
2 4 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Ansible
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
2 2 (1.61%) Graylog
2 2 (1.61%) Nagios
2 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (33.06%) Oracle
2 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.06%) IFS
4 4 (3.23%) Ab Initio
4 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.42%) Commvault
5 3 (2.42%) Databricks
5 3 (2.42%) Informatica
5 3 (2.42%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) Ceridian
6 2 (1.61%) Concur
6 2 (1.61%) Google
6 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.61%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.81%) BMC
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Remedy