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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 56 28 54
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.08% 11.57% 10.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.72% 51.85% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 21 39
10th Percentile £309 £321 £375
25th Percentile £401 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -7.32%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £593
90th Percentile £600 £613 £615
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
75th Percentile - - £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
South East median hourly rate £62.76 £63.12 £58.11
% change year-on-year -0.57% +8.62% +79.91%

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 141 54 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 17.83% 22.31% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 41 96
10th Percentile £358 £306 £375
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £613 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - £51.38 £22.61
25th Percentile - £51.56 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £56.56 £51.56
90th Percentile - £57.13 £54.25
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.29% -5.42% +9.09%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -9 53 £425 +6.25% 19
Newport Pagnell - 1 £300 -
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 6 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.93%) dbt
5 5 (8.93%) GitHub
5 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.36%) GCP
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.07%) MySQL
2 9 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.29%) Power BI
4 6 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.71%) Star Schema
5 5 (8.93%) Big Data
6 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
7 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.79%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (1.79%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
2 5 (8.93%) Git
2 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.93%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.36%) JUnit
3 3 (5.36%) Selenium
3 3 (5.36%) Storybook
4 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.57%) NUnit
4 2 (3.57%) Postman
4 2 (3.57%) SpecFlow
4 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.57%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.79%) JMeter
5 1 (1.79%) MSTest
General
1 16 (28.57%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Electronics
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 14 (25.00%) DBA
2 14 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 13 (23.21%) Data Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Senior
5 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared DBA
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior DBA
10 2 (3.57%) Senior SQL DBA
10 2 (3.57%) Senior Technical Architect
10 2 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
10 2 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) .NET
2 11 (19.64%) React
3 8 (14.29%) CSS
3 8 (14.29%) RESTful
4 7 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 7 (12.50%) PySpark
5 6 (10.71%) Entity Framework
6 5 (8.93%) Material-UI
7 3 (5.36%) HTML
7 3 (5.36%) REST
7 3 (5.36%) Spring
7 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.36%) Vitest
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
8 2 (3.57%) LINQ
8 2 (3.57%) Swagger
9 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 1 (1.79%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.36%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.57%) Clustering
2 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.79%) Life Science
3 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) ETL
2 15 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (25.00%) DevOps
4 12 (21.43%) Analytics
4 12 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 10 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 9 (16.07%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) Microservices
6 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 7 (12.50%) Data Governance
8 7 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (10.71%) Data Engineering
9 6 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.93%) Data Analysis
10 5 (8.93%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (8.93%) Impact Assessments
10 5 (8.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Python
2 11 (19.64%) C#
2 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
3 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 8 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) Bash
5 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) Bicep
7 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
1 4 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) Databricks
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Cognos
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Informatica