SQL Contracts in Milton Keynes

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SQL 23 38 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.09% 12.88% 11.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.39% 53.52% 47.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 65
10th Percentile £358 £389 £325
25th Percentile £375 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -20.45% +2.33%
75th Percentile £569 £581 £613
90th Percentile £617 £720 £750
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £425 £550
% change year-on-year - -22.73% +2.33%

All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 71 71 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 31.14% 24.07% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 136
10th Percentile £299 £400 £325
25th Percentile £325 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £513 £570 £575
90th Percentile £568 £650 £631
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £391 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -21.80% - -9.09%
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 - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 -
% change year-on-year +45.17% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing SQL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (8.70%) IBM Domino
1 2 (8.70%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (17.39%) ChatGPT
4 4 (17.39%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Big Data
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (13.04%) MS Access
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.70%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (8.70%) OLAP
4 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.35%) Impala
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
5 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) MSTest
2 1 (4.35%) NUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
2 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (26.09%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Data Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Data Scientist
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Test Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Credit Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (8.70%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Report Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Hugging Face
1 4 (17.39%) NumPy
1 4 (17.39%) Pandas
1 4 (17.39%) PyTorch
1 4 (17.39%) scikit-learn
2 3 (13.04%) Middleware
2 3 (13.04%) Prophet
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.35%) JPA
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
3 1 (4.35%) XML
3 1 (4.35%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Unix
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 5 (21.74%) Data Science
4 5 (21.74%) Logistics
5 4 (17.39%) A/B Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Data Privacy
5 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) OCR
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Time Series Forecasting
5 4 (17.39%) Use Case
5 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISEB
2 1 (4.35%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) IFRS
2 2 (8.70%) IFRS 9
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Citrix
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.04%) Sage
2 2 (8.70%) IBM
2 2 (8.70%) JDA
3 1 (4.35%) Compaq
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) HP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Terracotta
3 1 (4.35%) webMethods