SQL Contracts in Reading

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 86 108 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.46% 10.85% 10.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.50% 40.45% 46.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 82 107
10th Percentile £300 £363 £360
25th Percentile £413 £453 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.42%
75th Percentile £674 £638 £624
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £480 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £61.41 £76.43 -
25th Percentile £63.70 £78.21 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.82 £79.19 £80.00
% change year-on-year -19.41% -1.01% +100.00%

All Programming Languages
Reading

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 282 267 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.46% 26.83% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 209 234
10th Percentile £351 £373 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +12.24% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £701 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £54.13 £72.63 -
25th Percentile £56.65 £76.24 -
Median hourly rate £59.22 £79.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% - -
75th Percentile £66.03 - -
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.28 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +122.22%

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 15 May 2024.

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 11 (12.79%) Apache
2 10 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (11.63%) SAS
3 5 (5.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.16%) Jadu
4 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.42%) Azure
2 17 (19.77%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.14%) Azure Functions
6 7 (8.14%) Serverless
7 6 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.65%) PaaS
9 3 (3.49%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.49%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.49%) GCP
10 1 (1.16%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 1 (1.16%) ChatGPT
10 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.16%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.79%) VPN
2 10 (11.63%) BGP
2 10 (11.63%) Ethernet VPN
2 10 (11.63%) MPLS
2 10 (11.63%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (3.49%) Firewall
4 2 (2.33%) FTP
5 1 (1.16%) SNMP
5 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (24.42%) Oracle Database
3 16 (18.60%) Oracle Database 11g
4 15 (17.44%) NoSQL
5 14 (16.28%) SQL Server
6 11 (12.79%) MongoDB
7 10 (11.63%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (11.63%) Power BI
8 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.81%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.65%) MySQL
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.49%) Big Data
11 3 (3.49%) Data Mining
11 3 (3.49%) GIS
11 3 (3.49%) PowerPivot
11 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (2.33%) DB2
12 2 (2.33%) Tableau
13 1 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (16.28%) JIRA
2 10 (11.63%) GitLab
2 10 (11.63%) Robot Framework
2 10 (11.63%) TestRail
3 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio
4 5 (5.81%) Git
5 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (19.77%) Telecoms
2 8 (9.30%) Finance
3 6 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.98%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (39.53%) Developer
2 13 (15.12%) PostgreSQL Developer
2 13 (15.12%) Test Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Network Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) IFS Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Data Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Database Specialist
5 6 (6.98%) DBA
6 5 (5.81%) C# Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Consultant
6 5 (5.81%) Product Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Report Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.49%) Senior
9 2 (2.33%) Functional Consultant
9 2 (2.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) REST
1 14 (16.28%) SOAP
2 11 (12.79%) YANG
3 10 (11.63%) NETCONF
3 10 (11.63%) RESTCONF
4 8 (9.30%) XML
5 5 (5.81%) JSON
6 4 (4.65%) .NET
7 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.49%) OAuth
7 3 (3.49%) OpenID
8 2 (2.33%) RESTful
9 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.16%) Express.js
9 1 (1.16%) JSON Schema
9 1 (1.16%) Node.js
9 1 (1.16%) NumPy
9 1 (1.16%) Regular Expression
9 1 (1.16%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.16%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.65%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.16%) Housing Association
3 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.12%) Linux
2 10 (11.63%) Unix
3 6 (6.98%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.40%) Unit Testing
2 23 (26.74%) DevOps
3 19 (22.09%) Migration
3 19 (22.09%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (20.93%) Scrum
5 17 (19.77%) Analytics
5 17 (19.77%) Data Migration
5 17 (19.77%) Software Testing
6 15 (17.44%) Agile
6 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.28%) Secure Coding
7 14 (16.28%) Security Testing
7 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
7 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.12%) Architectural Design
8 13 (15.12%) Clean Code
9 12 (13.95%) Performance Testing
9 12 (13.95%) Regression Testing
9 12 (13.95%) Workflow
10 11 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.09%) Python
2 18 (20.93%) PL/SQL
3 9 (10.47%) C#
4 4 (4.65%) Java
4 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.49%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.16%) Bash
6 1 (1.16%) F#
6 1 (1.16%) Groovy
6 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.16%) PHP
6 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.63%) Degree
4 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
2 1 (1.16%) Graylog
2 1 (1.16%) Nagios
2 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Oracle
2 13 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.63%) IFS
4 4 (4.65%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.65%) Databricks
5 3 (3.49%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
7 1 (1.16%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.16%) BMC
7 1 (1.16%) Ceridian
7 1 (1.16%) Concur
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Remedy
7 1 (1.16%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) Splunk