SQL Contracts in Buckinghamshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 28 52 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.41% 11.69% 8.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.94% 45.22% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 65
10th Percentile £314 £381 £378
25th Percentile £347 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -13.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £503 £578 £625
90th Percentile £653 £638 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.15% -7.67% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.82 -
South East median hourly rate £47.00 £41.67 £45.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -7.41% +136.84%

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 85 115 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 31.60% 25.84% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 81 147
10th Percentile £306 £400 £323
25th Percentile £325 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -24.74% -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £548 £560 £575
90th Percentile £589 £625 £643
South East median daily rate £501 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £23.70 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £30.01 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -36.91%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +20.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Buckinghamshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Buckinghamshire

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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 3 July 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
Milton Keynes -3 25 £375 -21.05% 37
Newport Pagnell - 1 - - 1
Bletchley - 1 - - 2
High Wycombe - 1 - - 4
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (10.71%) IBM Domino
2 2 (7.14%) SAS
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) FTP
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (10.71%) IBM InfoSphere
5 3 (10.71%) MS Access
5 3 (10.71%) OLAP
5 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (7.14%) DocumentDB
6 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
6 2 (7.14%) MySQL
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (7.14%) Power BI
6 2 (7.14%) Tableau
7 1 (3.57%) Big Data
7 1 (3.57%) Impala
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Modeller
4 3 (10.71%) Finance Modeller
4 3 (10.71%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Credit Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Quality Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Quality Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
2 3 (10.71%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) REST
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 2 (7.14%) NHibernate
3 2 (7.14%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) VML
3 2 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) JPA
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Unix
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (21.43%) Data Management
5 6 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Data Security
6 5 (17.86%) ETL
6 5 (17.86%) RBAC
7 4 (14.29%) Analytics
7 4 (14.29%) DevOps
7 4 (14.29%) Microservices
7 4 (14.29%) Product Analysis
7 4 (14.29%) Requirements Management
7 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ISEB
3 1 (3.57%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) GDPR
1 5 (17.86%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.14%) IFRS
3 2 (7.14%) IFRS 9
4 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) IBM
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Citrix
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Compaq
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Terracotta
4 1 (3.57%) webMethods