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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL 41 52 92
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 10.49% 13.37% 15.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.32% 50.49% 51.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 74
10th Percentile £309 £210 £325
25th Percentile £406 £393 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £575 £600
90th Percentile £635 £653 £750
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%

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 107 103 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.37% 26.48% 29.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 71 140
10th Percentile £313 £210 £325
25th Percentile £363 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £562 £570 £575
90th Percentile £575 £656 £644
South East median daily rate £481 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -4.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £45.58 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.88% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -11.06%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 39 £475 +11.11% 30
Newport Pagnell - 2 £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 3 (7.32%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 9 (21.95%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (9.76%) ChatGPT
4 4 (9.76%) Serverless
5 3 (7.32%) dbt
5 3 (7.32%) GCP
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.32%) OCI
5 3 (7.32%) SaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.44%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (14.63%) Big Data
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.76%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.32%) MySQL
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.88%) Power BI
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) JUnit
3 3 (7.32%) Storybook
4 2 (4.88%) Git
4 2 (4.88%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.44%) JMeter
5 1 (2.44%) MSTest
5 1 (2.44%) NUnit
5 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Electronics
6 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.32%) Marketing
6 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 7 (17.07%) Analyst
3 7 (17.07%) Data Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Data Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Data Scientist
6 4 (9.76%) Informatica Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Technical Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Monitoring Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Oracle Specialist
8 2 (4.88%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Data Quality Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Quality Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Technical Architect
9 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) PySpark
2 4 (9.76%) .NET
2 4 (9.76%) Hugging Face
2 4 (9.76%) NumPy
2 4 (9.76%) Pandas
2 4 (9.76%) PyTorch
2 4 (9.76%) scikit-learn
2 4 (9.76%) SOAP
3 3 (7.32%) CSS
3 3 (7.32%) HTML
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (7.32%) Prophet
3 3 (7.32%) React
3 3 (7.32%) REST
3 3 (7.32%) RESTful
3 3 (7.32%) Spring
3 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.32%) Vitest
4 1 (2.44%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
4 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (21.95%) DevOps
5 7 (17.07%) Data Integration
5 7 (17.07%) ETL
5 7 (17.07%) ITIL
6 6 (14.63%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.20%) Migration
7 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (9.76%) A/B Testing
8 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.76%) Data Science
8 4 (9.76%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (9.76%) High Availability
8 4 (9.76%) LLM
8 4 (9.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
3 5 (12.20%) Java
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.88%) R
7 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Degree
4 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) ISEB
6 1 (2.44%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.07%) Databricks
2 7 (17.07%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Informatica
4 3 (7.32%) Sage
4 3 (7.32%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) JDA
6 1 (2.44%) Compaq
6 1 (2.44%) HP
6 1 (2.44%) Terracotta
6 1 (2.44%) webMethods