SQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 15 24 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 148 188 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.79% 7.00% 9.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.28% 35.27% 37.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 210
10th Percentile £355 £325 £363
25th Percentile £418 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +3.34%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £613
90th Percentile £634 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £39.74 £22.61 £30.43
25th Percentile £53.97 £23.52 £32.30
Median hourly rate £63.75 £57.32 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% -21.21% -9.06%
75th Percentile £68.51 £63.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +9 114 £500 - 184
Buckinghamshire -1 27 £400 -15.79% 128
Oxfordshire +1 9 £380 -27.62% 100
SQL
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.05%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.03%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.68%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.68%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.68%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.92%) Azure
2 35 (23.65%) AWS
3 27 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (12.16%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.11%) GCP
7 11 (7.43%) Azure AKS
8 8 (5.41%) IaaS
8 8 (5.41%) PaaS
8 8 (5.41%) SaaS
8 8 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.73%) Azure Storage
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.05%) Serverless
11 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.38%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.03%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.03%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) MPLS
2 1 (0.68%) BGP
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) FTP
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.68%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) NAS
2 1 (0.68%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.68%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Skype
2 1 (0.68%) SSL
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.68%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 24 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (14.19%) Big Data
3 21 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (10.81%) Power BI
6 15 (10.14%) Data Lake
7 12 (8.11%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.76%) Oracle Database
9 8 (5.41%) Tableau
10 7 (4.73%) Hadoop
10 7 (4.73%) Metadata
11 6 (4.05%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (3.38%) GIS
12 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.38%) MySQL
12 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Git
2 10 (6.76%) JIRA
3 6 (4.05%) ERwin
3 6 (4.05%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.70%) GitLab
4 4 (2.70%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.35%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.68%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.68%) jMock
7 1 (0.68%) JUnit
7 1 (0.68%) Mockito
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.68%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.68%) Toad
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 11 (7.43%) Finance
4 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.05%) Marketing
6 5 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Electronics
7 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Banking
9 2 (1.35%) Games
9 2 (1.35%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (17.57%) Developer
2 25 (16.89%) Senior
3 23 (15.54%) Analyst
4 16 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.78%) Data Analyst
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Architect
7 10 (6.76%) Consultant
8 9 (6.08%) DBA
9 8 (5.41%) Data Modeller
9 8 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Administrator
10 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Tester
11 6 (4.05%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Business Analyst
12 5 (3.38%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.54%) .NET
2 18 (12.16%) PySpark
3 11 (7.43%) CSS
3 11 (7.43%) HTML
3 11 (7.43%) SOAP
4 10 (6.76%) Web Services
5 9 (6.08%) .NET Core
5 9 (6.08%) REST
6 8 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.38%) ADO
7 5 (3.38%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (3.38%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.38%) JSON
7 5 (3.38%) Kafka
8 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.70%) OAuth
9 3 (2.03%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.03%) OpenID
9 3 (2.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) SCADA
2 9 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.41%) Operational Technology
4 7 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Replication
6 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Windows
2 15 (10.14%) Linux
3 9 (6.08%) Unix
4 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (27.70%) DevOps
3 39 (26.35%) Agile
4 31 (20.95%) Migration
5 29 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (18.92%) Data Migration
7 26 (17.57%) Analytics
7 26 (17.57%) CI/CD
7 26 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (14.86%) Data Modelling
8 22 (14.86%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (14.86%) ETL
9 18 (12.16%) Test Automation
10 17 (11.49%) Validation
11 15 (10.14%) Data Security
12 14 (9.46%) Software Engineering
13 13 (8.78%) Data Analysis
13 13 (8.78%) Data Management
13 13 (8.78%) Software Testing
14 12 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.46%) Python
2 26 (17.57%) C#
3 25 (16.89%) PL/SQL
4 14 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.78%) Perl
6 11 (7.43%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.76%) Bash
8 7 (4.73%) Java
9 6 (4.05%) Bicep
10 5 (3.38%) R
11 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.35%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.35%) Ruby
12 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.68%) ABAP
13 1 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.68%) C++
13 1 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.68%) X++
13 1 (0.68%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) Degree
4 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.35%) CISSP
7 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) MCP
8 1 (0.68%) MCSE
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) QA
2 9 (6.08%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.08%) GDPR
3 6 (4.05%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.03%) SLA
5 2 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.73%) Docker
3 3 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Postfix
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.08%) Terraform
3 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.03%) Grafana
5 2 (1.35%) Puppet
5 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.68%) SCCM
6 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.89%) Oracle
3 17 (11.49%) Databricks
4 10 (6.76%) SAP
5 5 (3.38%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.70%) Google
6 4 (2.70%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.03%) Citrix
7 3 (2.03%) IBM
7 3 (2.03%) Remedy
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.03%) Splunk
8 2 (1.35%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.35%) Cisco
8 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.35%) Snow
8 2 (1.35%) Sparx
8 2 (1.35%) VMware
8 2 (1.35%) Workday
9 1 (0.68%) StreamSets