SQL Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 44 46 81
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 9.87% 13.53% 15.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.76% 51.69% 50.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 32 61
10th Percentile £309 £210 £325
25th Percentile £406 £344 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -7.22% -6.98%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £600
90th Percentile £635 £611 £750
South East median daily rate £475 £511 £535
% change year-on-year -7.09% -4.44% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £51.25
% change year-on-year +42.40% -24.64% +153.09%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 85 89 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.06% 26.18% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 63 122
10th Percentile £322 £210 £328
25th Percentile £394 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £565 £565 £550
90th Percentile £586 £635 £636
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.71% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £22.61
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £52.50
90th Percentile - - £63.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.31% -4.17%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Buckinghamshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing SQL

SQL
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 within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 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 43 £463 +10.12% 40
Newport Pagnell - 1 £300 - 1
SQL
South East

SQL
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 5 (11.36%) Confluence
1 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 19 (43.18%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.36%) AWS
4 3 (6.82%) dbt
4 3 (6.82%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.82%) OCI
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.64%) Big Data
2 6 (13.64%) Power BI
3 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (9.09%) Star Schema
5 3 (6.82%) MySQL
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database 12c
5 3 (6.82%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) JUnit
3 3 (6.82%) Storybook
4 2 (4.55%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.27%) JMeter
5 1 (2.27%) MSTest
5 1 (2.27%) NUnit
5 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Electronics
5 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
5 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.55%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Informatica Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Monitoring Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) .NET
1 5 (11.36%) PySpark
2 4 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (6.82%) CSS
3 3 (6.82%) HTML
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (6.82%) React
3 3 (6.82%) RESTful
3 3 (6.82%) SOAP
3 3 (6.82%) Spring
3 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.82%) Vitest
4 1 (2.27%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (29.55%) ETL
2 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (27.27%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 10 (22.73%) Analytics
5 8 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 6 (13.64%) DevOps
6 6 (13.64%) ITIL
6 6 (13.64%) Waterfall
7 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.36%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (9.09%) High Availability
8 4 (9.09%) Migration
8 4 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) PL/SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.55%) C#
6 2 (4.55%) R
7 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) Databricks
2 7 (15.91%) Oracle
3 4 (9.09%) Informatica
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
5 2 (4.55%) JDA