SQL Contracts in Reading

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 45 91 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.54% 7.63% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.27% 31.49% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 55 82
10th Percentile £510 £344 £363
25th Percentile £525 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £61.41 £76.43
25th Percentile - £63.70 £78.21
Median hourly rate £77.19 £67.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -14.76% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £63.82 £79.19
% change year-on-year -0.12% -19.41% -1.01%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Reading.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.22%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (2.22%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (6.67%) SaaS
6 3 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.22%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.22%) OCI
8 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) BGP
1 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.22%) MPLS
1 1 (2.22%) PuTTY
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
1 1 (2.22%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (11.11%) GIS
4 4 (8.89%) Big Data
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.22%) HDInsight
7 1 (2.22%) Impala
7 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.22%) Power BI
7 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Git
2 6 (13.33%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.44%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) Maven
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.22%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.22%) jMock
5 1 (2.22%) JUnit
5 1 (2.22%) Mockito
5 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) Subversion
5 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.56%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.67%) Electronics
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Consultant
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (8.89%) Automation Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) .NET
1 8 (17.78%) SOAP
2 7 (15.56%) CSS
2 7 (15.56%) HTML
3 6 (13.33%) PySpark
4 4 (8.89%) Web Services
5 3 (6.67%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.67%) JSON
5 3 (6.67%) REST
6 2 (4.44%) Playwright
6 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
6 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.22%) NETCONF
7 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.22%) RESTCONF
7 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 5 (11.11%) SCADA
2 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.44%) IoT
3 2 (4.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.22%) CMDB
4 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) CentOS
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) DevOps
2 18 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Unit Testing
4 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (24.44%) Software Testing
5 10 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 10 (22.22%) Migration
6 9 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.00%) Integration Testing
6 9 (20.00%) System Testing
6 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.33%) Clean Code
8 6 (13.33%) CRUD
8 6 (13.33%) ETL
8 6 (13.33%) Prototyping
8 6 (13.33%) Secure Coding
8 6 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) PL/SQL
2 11 (24.44%) Python
3 8 (17.78%) C#
4 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.33%) Perl
6 2 (4.44%) R
6 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.22%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 21 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) MCSE
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.22%) Postfix
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Databricks
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.11%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Virgin Media
5 2 (4.44%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.22%) BMC
6 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Infor
6 1 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (2.22%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.22%) VMware