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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 35 53 93
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 10.09% 13.28% 13.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.31% 48.62% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 75
10th Percentile £325 £210 £264
25th Percentile £406 £378 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £550 £600
90th Percentile £575 £654 £750
South East median daily rate £490 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -6.67% -1.87% +4.39%

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 102 109 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.39% 27.32% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 75 142
10th Percentile £315 £247 £314
25th Percentile £363 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £575
90th Percentile £575 £654 £641
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £528
% change year-on-year -3.95% -2.84% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.17 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.23%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 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 33 £438 +2.94% 36
Bletchley -1 1 - - 9
Newport Pagnell - 1 - - 2
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 3 (8.57%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (11.43%) ChatGPT
4 4 (11.43%) Serverless
5 3 (8.57%) OCI
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) dbt
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (17.14%) Big Data
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Database
4 3 (8.57%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.86%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (2.86%) MS Access
6 1 (2.86%) OLAP
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) MSTest
2 1 (2.86%) NUnit
2 1 (2.86%) Selenium
2 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Scientist
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Informatica Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Monitoring Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Oracle Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) Data Quality Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Quality Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Configuration Manager
8 1 (2.86%) Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) DBA
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Hugging Face
1 4 (11.43%) NumPy
1 4 (11.43%) Pandas
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
1 4 (11.43%) PyTorch
1 4 (11.43%) scikit-learn
1 4 (11.43%) SOAP
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (8.57%) Prophet
2 3 (8.57%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) JPA
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.86%) Spring MVC
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (20.00%) ETL
3 7 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 6 (17.14%) Analytics
4 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (17.14%) Data Integration
4 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) A/B Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (11.43%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) Data Privacy
6 4 (11.43%) Data Science
6 4 (11.43%) High Availability
6 4 (11.43%) LLM
6 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
6 4 (11.43%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.71%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.43%) GDPR
3 3 (8.57%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) IFRS
4 1 (2.86%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (17.14%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Informatica
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Sage
4 2 (5.71%) JDA
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Compaq
5 1 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Terracotta
5 1 (2.86%) webMethods