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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 43 77 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.93% 6.48% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.22% 26.74% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 47 81
10th Percentile £475 £286 £363
25th Percentile £513 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £625
90th Percentile £625 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +14.94% -17.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £76.43
25th Percentile - - £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 £67.50 £79.19
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.76% +11.93%

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 158 288 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.15% 24.24% 24.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 204 202
10th Percentile £400 £330 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £712
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -9.05% +1.29% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £54.13 £72.63
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.24
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.40 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.19% -26.26% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.28
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -3.45%

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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 30 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 8 (18.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (6.98%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (16.28%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (4.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (2.33%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) SaaS
3 6 (13.95%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) OCI
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (11.63%) GIS
3 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (6.98%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Maven
2 2 (4.65%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (2.33%) jMock
3 1 (2.33%) JUnit
3 1 (2.33%) Mockito
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.33%) Subversion
3 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.60%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.30%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Consultant
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) DBA
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (6.98%) Report Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Applications Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) SOAP
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (13.95%) Web Services
3 4 (9.30%) .NET
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) JSON
5 2 (4.65%) OAuth
5 2 (4.65%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.65%) Playwright
6 1 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.33%) JPA
6 1 (2.33%) PySpark
6 1 (2.33%) RESTful
6 1 (2.33%) Spring
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Operational Technology
1 5 (11.63%) SCADA
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) CMDB
4 1 (2.33%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Unix
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.91%) Agile
3 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
5 8 (18.60%) ERP
5 8 (18.60%) SOA
5 8 (18.60%) Validation
6 7 (16.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.95%) High Availability
7 6 (13.95%) Integration Testing
7 6 (13.95%) Load Testing
7 6 (13.95%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (13.95%) Test Scripting
8 5 (11.63%) Data Modelling
8 5 (11.63%) Data Transformation
8 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.63%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) PL/SQL
2 8 (18.60%) Perl
3 7 (16.28%) Python
4 3 (6.98%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.33%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) MCSE
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (11.63%) QA
3 4 (9.30%) COBIT
3 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (9.30%) NIST
3 4 (9.30%) SLA
4 3 (6.98%) GDPR
5 2 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Postfix
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
2 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.65%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Remedy
5 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) BMC
5 1 (2.33%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) Infor
5 1 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) VMware