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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 72 27 45
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 8.44% 8.39% 12.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.37% 30.00% 50.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 15 31
10th Percentile £324 £360 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% - -22.73%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £581 £611 £650
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -

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 166 90 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.46% 27.95% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 50 64
10th Percentile £362 £310 £380
25th Percentile £417 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £402 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.94% -15.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £565
90th Percentile £610 £575 £646
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile £33.70 £51.25 £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 £52.50 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% +45.17% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.75 £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year +9.09% -20.72% +24.93%

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 31 August 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 31 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 -3 68 £417 -1.83% 21
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 2 (2.78%) IIS
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) Azure
2 20 (27.78%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.56%) dbt
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.11%) Power BI
3 6 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.56%) DocumentDB
4 4 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (4.17%) MySQL
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (2.78%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) NUnit
3 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) Selenium
3 3 (4.17%) SpecFlow
3 3 (4.17%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.17%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) MSTest
4 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.39%) Automotive
4 1 (1.39%) Banking
4 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) DBA
1 17 (23.61%) SQL DBA
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 11 (15.28%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) .NET Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Analyst
5 7 (9.72%) Test Manager
6 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared DBA
7 5 (6.94%) Architect
7 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared DBA
7 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.94%) SQL Server DBA
7 5 (6.94%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) QA Test Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.00%) .NET
2 12 (16.67%) React
2 12 (16.67%) REST
3 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 7 (9.72%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (9.72%) Entity Framework
5 6 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 6 (8.33%) Terraform
6 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET
6 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 5 (6.94%) CSS
6 5 (6.94%) PySpark
6 5 (6.94%) RESTful
7 4 (5.56%) JSON
7 4 (5.56%) NHibernate
8 3 (4.17%) HTML
9 2 (2.78%) Material-UI
9 2 (2.78%) Spring
10 1 (1.39%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
2 14 (19.44%) ETL
3 12 (16.67%) DevOps
4 11 (15.28%) Agile
4 11 (15.28%) Analytics
4 11 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
5 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.89%) SOLID
6 9 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (11.11%) Data Engineering
7 8 (11.11%) Defect Management
7 8 (11.11%) ITIL
7 8 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (11.11%) Test Management
7 8 (11.11%) Unit Testing
8 7 (9.72%) Scrum
8 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (9.72%) TDD
9 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.22%) C#
2 12 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.11%) Python
5 5 (6.94%) Java
6 4 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 28 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) DV Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) ISTQB
5 8 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (4.17%) ISEB
7 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.78%) CBAP
7 2 (2.78%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.39%) ACCA
8 1 (1.39%) CIMA
8 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.72%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
2 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.94%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Oracle
3 9 (12.50%) VMware
4 8 (11.11%) Databricks
5 7 (9.72%) Cisco
6 4 (5.56%) SAP
7 2 (2.78%) Informatica