SQL Contracts in Berkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 36 20
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 114 97 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.04% 4.92% 9.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.96% 26.36% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 63 132
10th Percentile £413 £272 £350
25th Percentile £463 £369 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £603
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +3.95% -8.38% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £34.94 - £76.43
25th Percentile £41.99 - £78.21
Median hourly rate £54.35 £67.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -14.76% +11.93%
75th Percentile £66.08 - -
90th Percentile £72.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £47.00 £41.67 £47.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.34% +141.01%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 317 368 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.93% 18.67% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 253 295
10th Percentile £400 £330 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 11
10th Percentile £34.94 £56.45 £21.65
25th Percentile £41.99 £56.65 £59.19
Median hourly rate £54.35 £61.60 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% -18.41% +4.14%
75th Percentile £66.08 £67.81 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.75 £73.59 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £56.47
% change year-on-year -12.10% +10.68% +30.07%

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 25 June 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 June 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
Reading +10 48 £550 +10.00% 54
Wokingham - 25 £450 - 3
Windsor - 21 £500 -
Bracknell +9 5 £400 +45.45% 13
Slough - 5 £525 - 39
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 8 (7.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.51%) Apache
4 3 (2.63%) Confluence
4 3 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.63%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.75%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.75%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (7.89%) Oracle EBS R12
2 9 (7.89%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.88%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.88%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 42 (36.84%) Azure
2 21 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (16.67%) AWS
4 16 (14.04%) Power Platform
5 15 (13.16%) Azure AKS
6 14 (12.28%) SaaS
7 13 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (10.53%) IaaS
8 12 (10.53%) PaaS
9 11 (9.65%) Azure Storage
10 9 (7.89%) GCP
11 7 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.39%) OCI
13 5 (4.39%) Serverless
14 4 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
14 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) SSL
2 1 (0.88%) BGP
2 1 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.88%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.88%) MPLS
2 1 (0.88%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (12.28%) Power BI
3 12 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.89%) Big Data
6 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.02%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.26%) Tableau
8 5 (4.39%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.39%) GIS
8 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.51%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.51%) Metadata
9 4 (3.51%) MySQL
9 4 (3.51%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 8 (7.02%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) ERwin
4 4 (3.51%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.63%) GitLab
5 3 (2.63%) Maven
6 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.75%) DBeaver
6 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.75%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.88%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.88%) Gradle
7 1 (0.88%) jMock
7 1 (0.88%) JUnit
7 1 (0.88%) Mockito
7 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.88%) Subversion
7 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.88%) Toad
General
1 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Telecoms
4 12 (10.53%) Finance
5 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.75%) Games
6 2 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.88%) Publishing
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (18.42%) Developer
2 17 (14.91%) Analyst
3 16 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.40%) Senior
5 12 (10.53%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Consultant
7 9 (7.89%) Site Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) Architect
9 6 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Data Modeller
9 6 (5.26%) DBA
9 6 (5.26%) Lead
9 6 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.39%) Solutions Consultant
11 4 (3.51%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) .NET
2 11 (9.65%) SOAP
3 10 (8.77%) ADO
3 10 (8.77%) Web Services
4 7 (6.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (6.14%) REST
5 5 (4.39%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.39%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.39%) JSON
5 5 (4.39%) OAuth
5 5 (4.39%) PySpark
6 4 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.51%) CSS
6 4 (3.51%) HTML
6 4 (3.51%) Kafka
7 3 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.63%) JDBC
7 3 (2.63%) RESTful
7 3 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) SCADA
2 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Replication
5 3 (2.63%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Windows
2 8 (7.02%) Linux
3 6 (5.26%) Unix
4 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.88%) CentOS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.19%) DevOps
1 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 23 (20.18%) Agile
5 19 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 18 (15.79%) Validation
7 16 (14.04%) Analytics
7 16 (14.04%) ERP
8 15 (13.16%) Migration
8 15 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (11.40%) Data Cleansing
9 13 (11.40%) High Availability
10 12 (10.53%) Data Migration
10 12 (10.53%) ETL
10 12 (10.53%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (8.77%) SOA
13 9 (7.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.70%) Python
2 20 (17.54%) PL/SQL
3 15 (13.16%) C#
4 12 (10.53%) Perl
5 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.02%) Bicep
6 8 (7.02%) Java
7 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.26%) Bash
8 6 (5.26%) R
9 3 (2.63%) X++
10 2 (1.75%) Ruby
10 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.88%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) Degree
4 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.75%) CISSP
7 2 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.88%) MCSE
8 1 (0.88%) VCP5
8 1 (0.88%) VCP6
8 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 9 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (6.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 6 (5.26%) SLA
5 5 (4.39%) COBIT
5 5 (4.39%) NIST
6 4 (3.51%) GDPR
7 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.51%) Docker
3 3 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.88%) NFS
5 1 (0.88%) Postfix
5 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.89%) Terraform
3 6 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.39%) Grafana
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (2.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.75%) Puppet
6 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (25.44%) Oracle
2 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.39%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) Databricks
4 4 (3.51%) Virgin Media
5 3 (2.63%) Google
6 2 (1.75%) Remedy
6 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.75%) Snow
6 2 (1.75%) Sparx
6 2 (1.75%) Splunk
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) BMC
7 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.88%) NetApp
7 1 (0.88%) VMware
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