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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 49 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.15% 13.50% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.52% 53.26% 45.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 66
10th Percentile £368 £351 £325
25th Percentile £383 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £609
90th Percentile £593 £649 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -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 92 92 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 29.02% 25.34% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 141
10th Percentile £313 £400 £325
25th Percentile £325 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £528 £568 £575
90th Percentile £565 £646 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.58 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.17% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £36.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.53
% change year-on-year -21.43% +26.06% -7.45%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -3 26 £450 +5.26% 29
Bletchley -2 1 - - 3
High Wycombe - 1 - - 7
Newport Pagnell - 1 - - 1
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (13.79%) ChatGPT
4 4 (13.79%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.45%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Big Data
2 4 (13.79%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.34%) MS Access
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.90%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (6.90%) OLAP
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) Power BI
5 1 (3.45%) Impala
5 1 (3.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) MSTest
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Data Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Monitoring Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
6 2 (6.90%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (6.90%) Quality Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Hugging Face
1 4 (13.79%) NumPy
1 4 (13.79%) Pandas
1 4 (13.79%) PyTorch
1 4 (13.79%) scikit-learn
1 4 (13.79%) Web Services
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) Prophet
3 2 (6.90%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.45%) JPA
4 1 (3.45%) jQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps
2 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
3 5 (17.24%) Logistics
4 4 (13.79%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
4 4 (13.79%) Data Privacy
4 4 (13.79%) Data Science
4 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
4 4 (13.79%) LLM
4 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
4 4 (13.79%) Scrum
4 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
4 4 (13.79%) Time Series Forecasting
4 4 (13.79%) Use Case
4 4 (13.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) IFRS
2 2 (6.90%) IFRS 9
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Citrix
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Sage
3 2 (6.90%) IBM
3 2 (6.90%) JDA
4 1 (3.45%) Compaq
4 1 (3.45%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Terracotta
4 1 (3.45%) webMethods