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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 27 43
Rank change year-on-year -30 +16 -20
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 20 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.34% 3.73% 2.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.20% 19.67% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 8
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile £400 - £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £413
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £588 £331 £438
90th Percentile £604 £388 £505
South East median daily rate £475 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% -4.76%

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 99 61 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.59% 18.94% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 40 29
10th Percentile £344 £284 £360
25th Percentile £401 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £393 £438
Median % change year-on-year +27.39% -10.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £466 £475
90th Percentile £588 £553 £567
South East median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.38% -56.36% +5.26%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -31 18 £417 +28.38% 8
Newport Pagnell - 2 £475 -
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 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DBA
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
1 7 (35.00%) SQL DBA
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 4 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (20.00%) C# Developer
5 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (10.00%) Material-UI
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) LINQ
5 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps
1 5 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
2 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (10.00%) API Development
3 2 (10.00%) API Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (10.00%) Microservices
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks