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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 72 25 44
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.96% 7.74% 11.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 29.41% 48.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 13 28
10th Percentile £322 £315 £384
25th Percentile £400 £350 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £375 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -14.29% -20.45%
75th Percentile £538 £438 £575
90th Percentile £578 £570 £680
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% 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 180 85 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 19.91% 26.32% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 46 62
10th Percentile £363 £296 £400
25th Percentile £415 £325 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £378 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.16% -24.50% -3.38%
75th Percentile £560 £475 £560
90th Percentile £610 £575 £649
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -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 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%

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 15 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 15 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 -2 68 £417 +11.26% 23
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%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (51.39%) Azure
2 21 (29.17%) 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%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.39%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.11%) Power BI
3 6 (8.33%) MySQL
3 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.56%) 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%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.78%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle ODI
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%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.17%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) MSTest
5 1 (1.39%) Postman
General
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.39%) Automotive
4 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) DBA
1 21 (29.17%) SQL DBA
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 13 (18.06%) Senior
4 7 (9.72%) .NET Developer
4 7 (9.72%) Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared DBA
4 7 (9.72%) Test Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared DBA
6 5 (6.94%) SQL Server DBA
7 4 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) QA Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) .NET
2 13 (18.06%) React
3 12 (16.67%) REST
4 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 8 (11.11%) Entity Framework
6 7 (9.72%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (8.33%) .NET Core
7 6 (8.33%) CSS
7 6 (8.33%) RESTful
8 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 5 (6.94%) PySpark
9 4 (5.56%) JSON
9 4 (5.56%) NHibernate
10 3 (4.17%) HTML
10 3 (4.17%) Material-UI
11 2 (2.78%) Spring
12 1 (1.39%) LINQ
12 1 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Clustering
3 2 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Unix
1 1 (1.39%) Windows
1 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
2 15 (20.83%) 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%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (13.89%) SOLID
6 9 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 8 (11.11%) Defect Management
7 8 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.11%) Test Management
8 7 (9.72%) Data Engineering
8 7 (9.72%) Scrum
8 7 (9.72%) TDD
9 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
9 6 (8.33%) Performance Testing
9 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.61%) C#
2 13 (18.06%) TypeScript
3 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 10 (13.89%) Python
4 7 (9.72%) T-SQL
5 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.94%) Bash
6 5 (6.94%) Java
7 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.39%) Bicep
8 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (40.28%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) 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%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Oracle
2 9 (12.50%) VMware
3 8 (11.11%) Databricks
4 7 (9.72%) Cisco
5 4 (5.56%) SAP
6 2 (2.78%) Informatica