SQL Contracts in Berkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 113 177 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.92% 10.10% 9.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.74% 41.45% 44.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 142 170
10th Percentile £290 £363 £363
25th Percentile £363 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £598
90th Percentile £688 £686 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £61.41 £69.10 -
25th Percentile £63.70 £75.25 £77.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £79.19 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -1.01% +100.00%
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £32.30 £20.75
% change year-on-year +82.37% +55.66% -5.68%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 356 427 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 18.65% 24.36% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 311 366
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +8.59% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £621 £575
90th Percentile £685 £694 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 3
10th Percentile £56.37 £22.55 £65.50
25th Percentile £56.65 £56.88 £70.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -12.50% +106.45%
75th Percentile £66.03 £79.19 £81.45
90th Percentile £68.38 £80.93 £82.08
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -16.17%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Berkshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Reading -6 84 £500 -9.09% 24
Bracknell +2 13 £275 -35.86% 4
Newbury +4 8 £350 -6.67% 1
Maidenhead -9 4 £255 -43.33% 1
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (15.04%) SAS
2 10 (8.85%) Apache
3 9 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (4.42%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) Jadu
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) SPSS
2 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.77%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.01%) Azure
2 17 (15.04%) AWS
3 15 (13.27%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Functions
5 7 (6.19%) Serverless
6 6 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.54%) GCP
8 4 (3.54%) PaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.65%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.88%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.88%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.85%) VPN
2 9 (7.96%) BGP
2 9 (7.96%) Ethernet VPN
2 9 (7.96%) MPLS
2 9 (7.96%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (3.54%) Firewall
4 3 (2.65%) FTP
5 1 (0.88%) SNMP
5 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.89%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (22.12%) Oracle Database
3 16 (14.16%) NoSQL
3 16 (14.16%) Oracle Database 11g
3 16 (14.16%) SQL Server
4 15 (13.27%) Power BI
5 12 (10.62%) Tableau
6 10 (8.85%) Crystal Reports
6 10 (8.85%) MongoDB
7 9 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.19%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.42%) MySQL
10 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.65%) Big Data
10 3 (2.65%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.65%) GIS
10 3 (2.65%) PowerPivot
10 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) JIRA
2 9 (7.96%) GitLab
2 9 (7.96%) Robot Framework
2 9 (7.96%) TestRail
3 6 (5.31%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.42%) Git
5 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (18.58%) Telecoms
2 18 (15.93%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Finance
4 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.65%) Local Government
6 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (30.97%) Developer
2 18 (15.93%) Analyst
3 16 (14.16%) Data Analyst
4 13 (11.50%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (10.62%) Test Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Network Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Senior
7 7 (6.19%) Consultant
7 7 (6.19%) DBA
7 7 (6.19%) IFS Developer
8 6 (5.31%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.42%) Database Specialist
9 5 (4.42%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.42%) SQL Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) SQL Data Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Report Developer
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.27%) REST
2 13 (11.50%) SOAP
3 10 (8.85%) YANG
4 9 (7.96%) NETCONF
4 9 (7.96%) RESTCONF
4 9 (7.96%) XML
5 7 (6.19%) D3.js
6 6 (5.31%) .NET
7 5 (4.42%) JSON
8 3 (2.65%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.65%) OAuth
8 3 (2.65%) OpenID
9 2 (1.77%) HTML
9 2 (1.77%) RESTful
10 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.88%) CSS
10 1 (0.88%) LAMP
10 1 (0.88%) Node.js
10 1 (0.88%) NumPy
10 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.54%) Smart Meter
4 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) CCTV
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.16%) Unix
2 13 (11.50%) Linux
3 9 (7.96%) Windows
4 4 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.12%) Unit Testing
2 24 (21.24%) Analytics
2 24 (21.24%) DevOps
3 21 (18.58%) Agile
3 21 (18.58%) Software Testing
4 20 (17.70%) Migration
4 20 (17.70%) Scrum
5 19 (16.81%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (15.93%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (14.16%) Data Migration
8 15 (13.27%) Data Analytics
8 15 (13.27%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.39%) Architectural Design
9 14 (12.39%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.39%) Data Modelling
9 14 (12.39%) Security Testing
10 13 (11.50%) Clean Code
10 13 (11.50%) Secure Coding
10 13 (11.50%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.73%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.78%) Python
2 16 (14.16%) PL/SQL
3 13 (11.50%) C#
4 7 (6.19%) R
5 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.42%) Java
7 3 (2.65%) F#
7 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) Groovy
9 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.88%) PHP
9 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.27%) Degree
4 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.08%) QA
2 4 (3.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Ansible
2 1 (0.88%) Grafana
2 1 (0.88%) Graylog
2 1 (0.88%) Nagios
2 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (30.09%) Oracle
2 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.85%) IFS
4 7 (6.19%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.42%) Databricks
6 4 (3.54%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.65%) Commvault
7 3 (2.65%) Google
7 3 (2.65%) Informatica
7 3 (2.65%) VMware
8 2 (1.77%) Ceridian
8 2 (1.77%) Concur
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.88%) BMC
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.88%) Remedy
9 1 (0.88%) SAP
9 1 (0.88%) Splunk