SQL Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 86 160 159
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.85% 10.53% 9.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.75% 40.92% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 86 118
10th Percentile £325 £390 £394
25th Percentile £414 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £662 £638
90th Percentile £608 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £535
% change year-on-year -7.32% -4.21% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £55.01
25th Percentile - £61.87 £55.69
Median hourly rate - £63.75 £56.69
Median % change year-on-year - +12.44% -
75th Percentile - £65.62 £58.96
90th Percentile - - £59.82
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £50.00
% change year-on-year +42.40% -22.76% +170.27%

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 334 391 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.71% 25.74% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 240 256
10th Percentile £358 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +5.45% +3.77%
75th Percentile £571 £650 £638
90th Percentile £619 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £39.25 £44.62 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -0.80%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £58.48
90th Percentile £84.40 £69.32 £66.36
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.32
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.00% -4.47%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SQL

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 18 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
Reading -23 42 £545 -14.51% 13
Wokingham -28 14 £425 -26.09% 4
Windsor -6 8 £208 +3.75% 4
Slough -2 5 £591 +31.33% 11
Maidenhead 0 3 £475 -20.00% 4
Bracknell -9 2 £433 +10.90% 10
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 6 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.49%) Apache
3 3 (3.49%) NetWeaver
3 3 (3.49%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.33%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.16%) Gunicorn
5 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.16%) nginx
5 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Maximo
1 3 (3.49%) Oracle BRM
1 3 (3.49%) SAP MDG
1 3 (3.49%) SAP MDG-F
1 3 (3.49%) SAP MDG-M
1 3 (3.49%) SAP MDG-S
1 3 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (1.16%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.53%) Azure
2 26 (30.23%) AWS
3 18 (20.93%) GCP
4 14 (16.28%) Power Platform
5 12 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (12.79%) Azure AKS
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Storage
7 7 (8.14%) IaaS
8 6 (6.98%) PaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (5.81%) dbt
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.49%) GitHub
12 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) Broadband
1 3 (3.49%) Firewall
1 3 (3.49%) GPRS
1 3 (3.49%) GSM
2 2 (2.33%) 2G
2 2 (2.33%) 5G
2 2 (2.33%) LTE
2 2 (2.33%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (2.33%) VoIP
3 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.16%) HTTP
3 1 (1.16%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) Relational Database
2 13 (15.12%) Power BI
2 13 (15.12%) Tableau
3 12 (13.95%) SQL Server
4 10 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (9.30%) MySQL
5 8 (9.30%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (8.14%) Data Lake
6 7 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.81%) Big Data
7 5 (5.81%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.81%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.65%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.49%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.49%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.33%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Git
2 8 (9.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.33%) Gradle
3 2 (2.33%) Maven
4 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.16%) GitLab
4 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.16%) Mocha
4 1 (1.16%) Postman
4 1 (1.16%) Selenium
4 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.47%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) Billing
6 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Automotive
8 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Developer
2 9 (10.47%) Lead
3 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
4 6 (6.98%) Technical Support
5 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (5.81%) Data Scientist
5 5 (5.81%) DBA
5 5 (5.81%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (4.65%) Analyst
6 4 (4.65%) Architect
6 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Designer
6 4 (4.65%) Senior
6 4 (4.65%) Site Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.47%) REST
1 9 (10.47%) scikit-learn
2 8 (9.30%) .NET
2 8 (9.30%) Web Services
3 7 (8.14%) ADO
4 6 (6.98%) Pandas
5 5 (5.81%) NumPy
5 5 (5.81%) PyTorch
5 5 (5.81%) TensorFlow
6 4 (4.65%) SOAP
7 3 (3.49%) HTML
8 2 (2.33%) CSS
8 2 (2.33%) JSON
8 2 (2.33%) Node.js
8 2 (2.33%) OAuth
8 2 (2.33%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.33%) Plotly
8 2 (2.33%) PySpark
8 2 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.30%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.49%) IPTV
4 2 (2.33%) Clustering
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.33%) IoT
4 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) SCADA
5 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.28%) Linux
2 11 (12.79%) Unix
3 10 (11.63%) Windows
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.16%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.16%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (32.56%) DevOps
3 27 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 21 (24.42%) Data Modelling
5 16 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (17.44%) Visualisation
7 14 (16.28%) Agile
7 14 (16.28%) Data Engineering
7 14 (16.28%) Validation
8 12 (13.95%) Machine Learning
9 11 (12.79%) Analytics
9 11 (12.79%) Computer Science
9 11 (12.79%) Data Visualisation
9 11 (12.79%) Decision-Making
10 10 (11.63%) High Availability
10 10 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (10.47%) ETL
11 9 (10.47%) OO
11 9 (10.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.86%) Python
2 16 (18.60%) Java
3 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.30%) Perl
5 7 (8.14%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.98%) C#
6 6 (6.98%) R
7 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.49%) ABAP
8 3 (3.49%) Jython
8 3 (3.49%) X++
9 2 (2.33%) Bash
9 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) Delphi
10 1 (1.16%) Fortran
10 1 (1.16%) PHP
10 1 (1.16%) ProC
10 1 (1.16%) Scala
10 1 (1.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Master's Degree
2 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.65%) OCP
7 4 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.16%) CCNA
9 1 (1.16%) CEH
9 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.16%) MCSE
9 1 (1.16%) VCP5
9 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) NDS
4 1 (1.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (1.16%) NFS
4 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (3.49%) Data Guard
5 2 (2.33%) Ansible
5 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.33%) systemd
6 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Grafana
6 1 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (26.74%) Oracle
2 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.14%) Google
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
4 4 (4.65%) SAP
5 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Foundry
6 2 (2.33%) Palantir
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) FireEye
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) IBM
7 1 (1.16%) NetIQ
7 1 (1.16%) OpenText
7 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.16%) Tanium
7 1 (1.16%) Veeam
7 1 (1.16%) VMware