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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 47 41 80
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 9.04% 14.39% 14.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.19% 56.94% 48.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 63
10th Percentile £309 £210 £365
25th Percentile £397 £323 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -13.16% -2.56%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £600
90th Percentile £575 £639 £643
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
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 £55.00 £63.75 £53.53
% change year-on-year -13.72% +19.08% +141.56%

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 104 72 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 20.00% 25.26% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 57 128
10th Percentile £351 £206 £373
25th Percentile £402 £338 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.98% +1.10%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £556
90th Percentile £592 £656 £616
South East median daily rate £490 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -2.29% -4.48% -0.94%
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 £60.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +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 22 February 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 22 February 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 45 £438 +6.71% 35
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 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.51%) Confluence
3 3 (6.38%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.13%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.89%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) dbt
5 3 (6.38%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (6.38%) OCI
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
3 8 (17.02%) Power BI
4 6 (12.77%) Big Data
4 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
4 6 (12.77%) Star Schema
5 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (10.64%) MySQL
5 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
6 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) JUnit
2 3 (6.38%) Storybook
3 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) JMeter
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Electronics
5 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
5 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.26%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) Data Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Analyst
5 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Data Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.38%) DBA
8 3 (6.38%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Oracle Specialist
8 3 (6.38%) SQL DBA
9 2 (4.26%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Monitoring Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Technical Architect
10 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) PySpark
2 7 (14.89%) .NET
3 6 (12.77%) React
4 5 (10.64%) CSS
4 5 (10.64%) RESTful
5 4 (8.51%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) HTML
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (6.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (6.38%) SOAP
6 3 (6.38%) Spring
6 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.38%) Vitest
7 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.26%) Entity Framework
7 2 (4.26%) Material-UI
8 1 (2.13%) JSON
8 1 (2.13%) LINQ
8 1 (2.13%) Swagger
8 1 (2.13%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Life Science
3 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (38.30%) ETL
3 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (27.66%) Data Modelling
5 11 (23.40%) Analytics
6 10 (21.28%) Agile
7 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
8 7 (14.89%) DevOps
8 7 (14.89%) Migration
9 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis
9 6 (12.77%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.77%) Microservices
9 6 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (12.77%) Waterfall
10 5 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (10.64%) High Availability
10 5 (10.64%) Impact Assessments
11 4 (8.51%) CI/CD
11 4 (8.51%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 6 (12.77%) PL/SQL
2 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.51%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.38%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) R
7 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (23.40%) Databricks
3 7 (14.89%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) Informatica
5 3 (6.38%) SAP
6 2 (4.26%) Cognos