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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing SQL 67 26 52
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.88% 11.87% 10.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.61% 52.00% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 17 36
10th Percentile £322 £315 £375
25th Percentile £400 £338 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -21.05% -7.32%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £578
90th Percentile £599 £670 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.65%
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 £58.91
% change year-on-year -0.57% +7.16% +82.37%

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 161 50 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 18.94% 22.83% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 38 87
10th Percentile £360 £304 £383
25th Percentile £403 £341 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £457 £511
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -10.67% +1.79%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £568
90th Percentile £600 £613 £613
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.55% +0.55% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £51.38 £22.61
25th Percentile - £51.56 £24.43
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £56.56 £48.75
90th Percentile - £57.13 £52.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £60.87
% change year-on-year - -9.64% +10.67%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -6 63 £417 +11.26% 26
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 (8.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.97%) Confluence
3 2 (2.99%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.97%) dbt
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.34%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Power BI
3 6 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.96%) MySQL
3 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Star Schema
4 5 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.97%) Big Data
5 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.48%) DocumentDB
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.49%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 5 (7.46%) NUnit
3 5 (7.46%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) Selenium
4 3 (4.48%) SpecFlow
4 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.48%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.99%) MSTest
5 2 (2.99%) Postman
General
1 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Automotive
5 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) DBA
1 20 (29.85%) SQL DBA
2 19 (28.36%) Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Data Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared DBA
6 6 (8.96%) .NET Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared DBA
7 5 (7.46%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (5.97%) Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.37%) .NET
2 12 (17.91%) React
3 10 (14.93%) .NET Framework
4 9 (13.43%) Entity Framework
4 9 (13.43%) REST
5 6 (8.96%) CSS
5 6 (8.96%) PySpark
5 6 (8.96%) RESTful
6 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (7.46%) Material-UI
7 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (4.48%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.48%) JSON
8 3 (4.48%) NHibernate
9 2 (2.99%) LINQ
9 2 (2.99%) Spring
9 2 (2.99%) Swagger
10 1 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.99%) Clustering
2 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.99%) Replication
3 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.49%) Life Science
3 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
2 16 (23.88%) ETL
3 13 (19.40%) DevOps
4 11 (16.42%) Analytics
4 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (16.42%) Unit Testing
5 9 (13.43%) Agile
5 9 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (11.94%) Microservices
6 8 (11.94%) SOLID
6 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.45%) Data Governance
7 7 (10.45%) Data Modelling
7 7 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (8.96%) Data Engineering
8 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (7.46%) Clean Code
9 5 (7.46%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) C#
2 12 (17.91%) TypeScript
3 9 (13.43%) Python
4 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.94%) T-SQL
5 5 (7.46%) Bash
5 5 (7.46%) Java
5 5 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.49%) Bicep
6 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) ISTQB
4 5 (7.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (13.43%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) Databricks
3 5 (7.46%) Cisco
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) VMware
4 2 (2.99%) Cognos