SQL Contracts in Berkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 17 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 114 124 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.72% 6.25% 9.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.34% 33.24% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 75 141
10th Percentile £413 £311 £363
25th Percentile £461 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £586 £649 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £39.74 £57.28 £69.10
25th Percentile £53.97 £58.96 £75.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £63.82 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% -19.41% -1.01%
75th Percentile £68.51 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £73.72 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
Reading +2 45 £563 +7.14% 107
Wokingham +9 22 £450 -5.26% 6
Windsor - 19 £500 - 1
Bracknell +12 8 £467 +43.69% 8
Slough - 4 £388 - 88
Maidenhead +4 1 £500 +96.08% 14
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 13 (11.40%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.26%) Apache
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.75%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.88%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 50 (43.86%) Azure
2 25 (21.93%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (21.05%) AWS
4 15 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.65%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.02%) IaaS
7 8 (7.02%) PaaS
7 8 (7.02%) SaaS
8 7 (6.14%) Azure Storage
8 7 (6.14%) GCP
9 6 (5.26%) Serverless
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) BGP
1 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (0.88%) MPLS
1 1 (0.88%) PuTTY
1 1 (0.88%) SSL
1 1 (0.88%) VPN
1 1 (0.88%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
1 18 (15.79%) Big Data
2 15 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.65%) Power BI
4 10 (8.77%) Relational Database
5 9 (7.89%) Oracle Database
6 8 (7.02%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.26%) Hadoop
7 6 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
8 5 (4.39%) GIS
8 5 (4.39%) Metadata
8 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.51%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.63%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.63%) MySQL
10 3 (2.63%) Tableau
11 2 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Git
2 10 (8.77%) JIRA
3 6 (5.26%) ERwin
3 6 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 4 (3.51%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.75%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.88%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.88%) jMock
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Mockito
7 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.88%) Subversion
7 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.88%) Toad
General
1 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.02%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.26%) Finance
6 5 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.63%) Electronics
8 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 2 (1.75%) Games
9 2 (1.75%) Military
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
10 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (17.54%) Senior
2 19 (16.67%) Developer
3 12 (10.53%) Analyst
3 12 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Architect
6 9 (7.89%) Consultant
7 8 (7.02%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Test Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Tester
9 6 (5.26%) Data Modeller
9 6 (5.26%) DBA
10 5 (4.39%) Lead
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.79%) .NET
2 16 (14.04%) PySpark
3 10 (8.77%) CSS
3 10 (8.77%) HTML
3 10 (8.77%) SOAP
4 7 (6.14%) Web Services
5 6 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 6 (5.26%) REST
6 5 (4.39%) ADO
6 5 (4.39%) Kafka
7 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.51%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.51%) JSON
7 4 (3.51%) OAuth
8 3 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.63%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.63%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.63%) scikit-learn
8 3 (2.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) SCADA
2 8 (7.02%) Operational Technology
3 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Replication
5 3 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) IoT
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.16%) Linux
2 14 (12.28%) Windows
3 7 (6.14%) Unix
4 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.46%) DevOps
2 29 (25.44%) Agile
2 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (22.81%) Migration
4 23 (20.18%) Data Migration
5 22 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (16.67%) Analytics
6 19 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (14.04%) ETL
7 16 (14.04%) Test Automation
8 14 (12.28%) Validation
9 13 (11.40%) Data Modelling
10 12 (10.53%) Unit Testing
11 11 (9.65%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (9.65%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.65%) Software Testing
12 9 (7.89%) Integration Testing
12 9 (7.89%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (34.21%) Python
2 23 (20.18%) PL/SQL
3 22 (19.30%) C#
4 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.40%) Perl
5 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.26%) Bicep
6 6 (5.26%) Java
7 5 (4.39%) Bash
8 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.63%) R
10 2 (1.75%) Ruby
10 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.88%) X++
11 1 (0.88%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 28 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.77%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.75%) CISSP
7 2 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.63%) GDPR
3 3 (2.63%) SLA
4 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.39%) Docker
3 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.88%) Postfix
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Terraform
3 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.63%) Grafana
5 2 (1.75%) Puppet
5 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.42%) Oracle
3 14 (12.28%) Databricks
4 7 (6.14%) SAP
5 5 (4.39%) OpenAI
6 4 (3.51%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.75%) Remedy
7 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) Snow
7 2 (1.75%) Sparx
7 2 (1.75%) Workday
8 1 (0.88%) BMC
8 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.88%) Genesys
8 1 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.88%) StreamSets