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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 27 51 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.44% 10.71% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.00% 41.46% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 64
10th Percentile £320 £379 £416
25th Percentile £347 £427 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £546 £583 £625
90th Percentile £627 £613 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.22 -
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

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 50 123 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 21.19% 25.84% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 91 166
10th Percentile £305 £388 £252
25th Percentile £344 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £613 £610 £675
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile £51.38 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £51.56 £29.89 £41.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% +286.36%
75th Percentile £56.56 £51.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.13 £54.25 -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Buckinghamshire

SQL
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

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 1 May 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 0 23 £400 -15.79% 92
Bletchley - 1 £350 -
High Wycombe - 1 - - 67
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 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.70%) IBM Domino
1 1 (3.70%) IIS
1 1 (3.70%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) Snowflake
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) FTP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 8 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (11.11%) MariaDB
5 3 (11.11%) Power BI
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (11.11%) Tableau
6 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.41%) Big Data
6 2 (7.41%) DocumentDB
6 2 (7.41%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (7.41%) MS Access
6 2 (7.41%) MySQL
6 2 (7.41%) OLAP
6 2 (7.41%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.70%) Impala
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.41%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) SQL DBA
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.41%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (7.41%) Entity Framework
3 2 (7.41%) Middleware
3 2 (7.41%) NHibernate
3 2 (7.41%) PySpark
3 2 (7.41%) VML
4 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.70%) Blazor
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) EDI
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.70%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.70%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
1 8 (29.63%) Data Security
1 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (22.22%) Data Management
4 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (18.52%) Data Migration
4 5 (18.52%) ETL
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
4 5 (18.52%) RBAC
5 4 (14.81%) Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.81%) DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) Product Analysis
5 4 (14.81%) Requirements Management
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) ABAP
4 1 (3.70%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.70%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
1 5 (18.52%) HIPAA
2 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS
3 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) IBM
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Citrix
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) Remedy
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow