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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 118 177 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.13% 10.15% 9.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.51% 41.16% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 142 171
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £366 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £57.28 £69.10 -
25th Percentile £58.96 £75.25 £77.50
Median hourly rate £63.82 £79.19 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% -1.01% +100.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £32.30 £20.75
% change year-on-year +82.37% +55.66% -5.68%

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 363 430 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.85% 24.67% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 314 368
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +8.70% +8.61%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £575
90th Percentile £680 £692 £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 13 3
10th Percentile £56.20 £22.55 £65.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.88 £70.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £81.45
90th Percentile £68.25 £80.93 £82.08
South East median hourly rate £60.87 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.67% +57.14% -16.17%

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 14 May 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 14 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
Reading -12 86 £500 -9.09% 20
Bracknell 0 14 £325 -24.20% 4
Newbury +2 8 £350 -6.67% 1
Maidenhead -8 3 £255 -43.33% 2
Wokingham -7 1 £475 -9.52% 1
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 (14.41%) SAS
2 11 (9.32%) Apache
3 10 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Jadu
5 1 (0.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) SPSS
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.19%) Azure
2 20 (16.95%) AWS
3 14 (11.86%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (5.93%) Azure Functions
6 7 (5.93%) Serverless
7 6 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.39%) GCP
9 4 (3.39%) PaaS
10 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.54%) Azure API Management
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.17%) VPN
2 10 (8.47%) BGP
2 10 (8.47%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (8.47%) MPLS
2 10 (8.47%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (4.24%) Firewall
4 3 (2.54%) FTP
5 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.85%) SNMP
6 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.42%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (22.03%) Oracle Database
3 19 (16.10%) SQL Server
4 17 (14.41%) NoSQL
4 17 (14.41%) Oracle Database 11g
5 14 (11.86%) Power BI
6 11 (9.32%) MongoDB
6 11 (9.32%) Tableau
7 10 (8.47%) Crystal Reports
8 9 (7.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.93%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (5.08%) MySQL
12 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.54%) Big Data
12 3 (2.54%) Data Mining
12 3 (2.54%) GIS
12 3 (2.54%) PowerPivot
12 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) JIRA
2 10 (8.47%) GitLab
2 10 (8.47%) Robot Framework
2 10 (8.47%) TestRail
3 6 (5.08%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.24%) Git
5 3 (2.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (17.80%) Telecoms
2 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Finance
4 9 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.54%) Local Government
6 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Developer
2 18 (15.25%) Analyst
3 16 (13.56%) Data Analyst
4 13 (11.02%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 13 (11.02%) Test Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) Network Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Senior
7 8 (6.78%) Consultant
7 8 (6.78%) DBA
8 7 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Database Specialist
8 7 (5.93%) IFS Developer
9 5 (4.24%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.24%) SQL Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) SQL Data Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.39%) Report Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.56%) REST
2 14 (11.86%) SOAP
3 11 (9.32%) YANG
4 10 (8.47%) NETCONF
4 10 (8.47%) RESTCONF
5 9 (7.63%) XML
6 7 (5.93%) D3.js
7 6 (5.08%) .NET
8 5 (4.24%) JSON
9 3 (2.54%) ARM Templates
9 3 (2.54%) OAuth
9 3 (2.54%) OpenID
10 2 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.69%) HTML
10 2 (1.69%) RESTful
11 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.85%) CSS
11 1 (0.85%) LAMP
11 1 (0.85%) Node.js
11 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.39%) Smart Meter
4 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) CCTV
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Unix
2 14 (11.86%) Linux
3 10 (8.47%) Windows
4 4 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.88%) Unit Testing
2 25 (21.19%) Analytics
3 24 (20.34%) DevOps
4 23 (19.49%) Migration
5 22 (18.64%) Agile
6 21 (17.80%) Scrum
6 21 (17.80%) Software Testing
7 19 (16.10%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (15.25%) Data Migration
9 15 (12.71%) CI/CD
9 15 (12.71%) Data Analytics
9 15 (12.71%) Data Modelling
9 15 (12.71%) Security Testing
9 15 (12.71%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.86%) Architectural Design
10 14 (11.86%) Secure Coding
10 14 (11.86%) Software Engineering
11 13 (11.02%) Clean Code
12 12 (10.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.88%) Python
2 18 (15.25%) PL/SQL
3 13 (11.02%) C#
4 7 (5.93%) R
5 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.24%) Java
7 3 (2.54%) F#
7 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.80%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.86%) Degree
4 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (9.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.69%) Ansible
2 2 (1.69%) Grafana
2 2 (1.69%) Graylog
2 2 (1.69%) Nagios
2 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (32.20%) Oracle
2 17 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) IFS
4 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.39%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.39%) Databricks
6 3 (2.54%) Commvault
6 3 (2.54%) Google
6 3 (2.54%) Informatica
6 3 (2.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.69%) Ceridian
7 2 (1.69%) Concur
7 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.69%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.85%) BMC
8 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) Remedy
8 1 (0.85%) SAP