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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 51 30 73
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.91% 10.75% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.97% 49.18% 47.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 57
10th Percentile £309 £236 £358
25th Percentile £395 £322 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -13.68% -5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £600
90th Percentile £595 £656 £632
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -1.50% +2.04% -2.00%
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 £62.50 £57.32
% change year-on-year +0.42% +9.04% +158.66%

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 116 61 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 17.98% 21.86% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 48 122
10th Percentile £349 £210 £363
25th Percentile £402 £334 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -4.49% +4.54%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £656 £624
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £501
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.30% -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £22.61
25th Percentile - £52.50 £29.89
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £51.56
90th Percentile - - £54.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.54 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.47% +7.27%

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 March 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 March 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 -1 49 £425 +3.66% 24
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 5 (9.80%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.84%) Confluence
3 3 (5.88%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.80%) dbt
4 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) GitHub
4 4 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (5.88%) OCI
5 3 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.96%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
2 12 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.69%) Power BI
4 6 (11.76%) Big Data
4 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 6 (11.76%) MySQL
4 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (11.76%) Star Schema
5 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.96%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Visual Studio
2 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) JUnit
3 3 (5.88%) Storybook
4 2 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) Postman
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) JMeter
5 1 (1.96%) NUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 20 (39.22%) Finance
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Electronics
5 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.88%) Marketing
5 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Developer
2 13 (25.49%) Data Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (11.76%) DBA
5 6 (11.76%) SQL DBA
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Architect
7 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Oracle Specialist
9 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Senior DBA
9 2 (3.92%) Senior SQL DBA
9 2 (3.92%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) .NET
2 9 (17.65%) React
3 8 (15.69%) CSS
3 8 (15.69%) RESTful
4 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 6 (11.76%) PySpark
5 5 (9.80%) Entity Framework
5 5 (9.80%) Material-UI
5 5 (9.80%) REST
6 3 (5.88%) HTML
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (5.88%) SOAP
6 3 (5.88%) Spring
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.88%) Vitest
7 2 (3.92%) JSON
7 2 (3.92%) LINQ
7 2 (3.92%) Swagger
8 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Life Science
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Business Intelligence
1 19 (37.25%) ETL
2 14 (27.45%) Data Modelling
2 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.49%) Agile
4 12 (23.53%) Analytics
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
6 9 (17.65%) Data Integration
6 9 (17.65%) Microservices
7 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (15.69%) Migration
7 8 (15.69%) Unit Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Data Governance
8 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.76%) Data Analysis
9 6 (11.76%) High Availability
9 6 (11.76%) Waterfall
10 5 (9.80%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 7 (13.73%) C#
3 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 5 (9.80%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.84%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.88%) Bash
7 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.92%) R
9 1 (1.96%) Bicep
9 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) SLA
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
3 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Databricks
3 7 (13.73%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) Informatica
5 3 (5.88%) SAP
6 2 (3.92%) Cognos