SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 30 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 28 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 4.51% 4.63% 3.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.56% 26.53% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 18
10th Percentile £357 £210 £185
25th Percentile £402 £296 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £448 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +5.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £541 £477
90th Percentile £640 £550 £509
South East median daily rate £482 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% - +2.30%

All Database & BI Skills
Buckinghamshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 86 49 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.85% 17.44% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 61
10th Percentile £319 £221 £263
25th Percentile £396 £331 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £519
90th Percentile £600 £633 £625
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £23.82
Median % change year-on-year - +0.75% -
75th Percentile - £24.50 £33.95
90th Percentile - - £51.08
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.94% -29.17% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Buckinghamshire

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -2 27 £475 -2.56% 20
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 3
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
1 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Postman
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) DBA
5 4 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Manual Tester
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Senior SQL DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Tester
6 2 (7.14%) Web Tester
7 1 (3.57%) C# Web Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
2 6 (21.43%) CSS
2 6 (21.43%) Entity Framework
2 6 (21.43%) React
3 5 (17.86%) Material-UI
3 5 (17.86%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) JSON
4 2 (7.14%) LINQ
4 2 (7.14%) Swagger
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.57%) CSS3
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Clustering
2 2 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) CRM
4 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
4 5 (17.86%) ITIL
4 5 (17.86%) Microservices
4 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Change Management
5 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) High Availability
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Project Management
6 3 (10.71%) Validation
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
4 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (53.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 5 (17.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Dell
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat