SQL Server Contracts in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,275 1,989 3,473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.43% 4.23% 4.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.14% 24.04% 25.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 1,543 2,653
10th Percentile £333 £363 £358
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% +11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 33
10th Percentile £36.84 £25.43 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £32.40 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.13 £41.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -17.17% +94.12%
75th Percentile £48.11 £72.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £48.75 £46.67
% change year-on-year -17.69% +4.46% +86.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,330 8,272 13,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.02% 17.58% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,561 5,938 9,982
10th Percentile £350 £370 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £788 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 158 167
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.21
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +72.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £74.69 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £82.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.90%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
London +5 846 £538 -6.52% 307
South East -49 111 £513 - 114
North of England -16 106 £475 -5.00% 213
Midlands +3 91 £450 +5.76% 156
North West -16 75 £463 -7.50% 119
South West -17 73 £538 +6.17% 72
West Midlands -17 45 £525 +2.44% 96
East Midlands +9 43 £445 +18.67% 60
East of England -35 24 £475 +5.56% 60
Yorkshire -15 21 £463 -7.50% 61
North East +18 10 £475 -13.64% 35
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.90%) IIS
3 28 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.80%) Apache
5 20 (1.57%) CMS
5 20 (1.57%) Confluence
6 16 (1.25%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.55%) SAS
8 7 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.47%) JBoss
9 6 (0.47%) nginx
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.16%) Jadu
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 59 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.63%) CATIA
5 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.078%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.078%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.41%) Endur
3 15 (1.18%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 10 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.63%) DELMIA
6 6 (0.47%) OPENHousing
6 6 (0.47%) Temenos T24
7 5 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Relativity
8 2 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.078%) Academy Housing
9 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.078%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.078%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.078%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 619 (48.55%) Azure
2 269 (21.10%) Azure DevOps
3 215 (16.86%) Power Platform
4 151 (11.84%) AWS
5 100 (7.84%) Entra ID
6 87 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 85 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (5.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 75 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 64 (5.02%) PowerApps
11 60 (4.71%) GitHub
12 53 (4.16%) Power Automate
13 52 (4.08%) Serverless
14 48 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (3.45%) Azure Functions
16 43 (3.37%) PaaS
17 35 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
18 33 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
19 27 (2.12%) Snowflake
20 26 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.37%) Firewall
2 37 (2.90%) DNS
3 26 (2.04%) SAN
4 23 (1.80%) Internet
5 19 (1.49%) DHCP
6 16 (1.25%) FTP
7 15 (1.18%) LAN
8 14 (1.10%) NAS
8 14 (1.10%) WAN
9 11 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.63%) MPLS
11 7 (0.55%) SSL
11 7 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.47%) SSH
12 6 (0.47%) VPN
13 4 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.31%) HTTP
13 4 (0.31%) VLAN
13 4 (0.31%) Wireless
14 3 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (14.82%) Power BI
2 139 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
3 134 (10.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 127 (9.96%) Relational Database
5 101 (7.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 92 (7.22%) MySQL
7 84 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
8 67 (5.25%) NoSQL
9 61 (4.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (4.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 53 (4.16%) Oracle Database
12 43 (3.37%) Metadata
13 40 (3.14%) Data Lake
14 39 (3.06%) MongoDB
15 36 (2.82%) RDBMS
16 32 (2.51%) Tableau
17 29 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 27 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
19 24 (1.88%) Big Data
19 24 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 121 (9.49%) Git
2 66 (5.18%) JIRA
3 63 (4.94%) Visual Studio
4 46 (3.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 41 (3.22%) SpecFlow
6 32 (2.51%) Selenium
7 28 (2.20%) GitLab
8 27 (2.12%) Jenkins
8 27 (2.12%) TeamCity
9 18 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 16 (1.25%) Visual Studio Team System
11 14 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.10%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.02%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.02%) JMeter
13 10 (0.78%) NUnit
14 9 (0.71%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.71%) ERwin
15 8 (0.63%) Postman
15 8 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 272 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 259 (20.31%) Finance
3 136 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (9.10%) Banking
5 115 (9.02%) Public Sector
6 50 (3.92%) Back Office
7 39 (3.06%) Front Office
8 32 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 25 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.80%) Local Government
10 23 (1.80%) Marketing
11 21 (1.65%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.25%) Retail
14 15 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.10%) Legal
15 14 (1.10%) Publishing
16 13 (1.02%) Electronics
17 10 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 531 (41.65%) Developer
2 204 (16.00%) Senior
3 144 (11.29%) Senior Developer
4 126 (9.88%) C# Developer
5 117 (9.18%) .NET Developer
6 92 (7.22%) Data Engineer
7 90 (7.06%) Architect
8 89 (6.98%) Analyst
9 65 (5.10%) Software Developer
10 63 (4.94%) DBA
11 59 (4.63%) Lead
12 58 (4.55%) SQL Developer
13 54 (4.24%) Azure Developer
14 52 (4.08%) Full Stack Developer
15 51 (4.00%) SQL DBA
16 50 (3.92%) Administrator
16 50 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 47 (3.69%) Senior Software Developer
18 42 (3.29%) Backend Developer
19 41 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (33.96%) .NET
2 158 (12.39%) XML
3 150 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 138 (10.82%) HTML
5 136 (10.67%) .NET Core
6 114 (8.94%) ASP.NET
7 98 (7.69%) CSS
8 95 (7.45%) AngularJS
9 83 (6.51%) React
10 60 (4.71%) Web Services
11 56 (4.39%) REST
12 52 (4.08%) Entity Framework
13 42 (3.29%) Kafka
14 40 (3.14%) JSON
14 40 (3.14%) WCF
15 39 (3.06%) RESTful
16 37 (2.90%) SOAP
17 35 (2.75%) jQuery
18 30 (2.35%) ASP.NET MVC
19 28 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.78%) Product Ownership
2 58 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 41 (3.22%) Clustering
4 38 (2.98%) Replication
5 27 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.12%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.88%) Client/Server
7 22 (1.73%) Hedge funds
8 19 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.25%) Derivative
10 16 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.18%) PKI
12 14 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (0.86%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 250 (19.61%) Windows
2 123 (9.65%) Linux
3 118 (9.25%) Windows Server
4 59 (4.63%) Unix
5 40 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 39 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.80%) Windows 10
9 14 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.86%) Android
11 10 (0.78%) VMS
12 8 (0.63%) zOS
13 7 (0.55%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.55%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.55%) Windows 7
14 6 (0.47%) CentOS
15 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (31.22%) Agile
2 370 (29.02%) DevOps
3 212 (16.63%) Business Intelligence
4 183 (14.35%) Scrum
5 179 (14.04%) CI/CD
6 170 (13.33%) Migration
7 165 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (12.16%) ETL
9 142 (11.14%) Data Modelling
10 116 (9.10%) TDD
11 92 (7.22%) OO
12 90 (7.06%) MVC
13 82 (6.43%) Analytics
14 81 (6.35%) SDLC
15 80 (6.27%) Software Engineering
16 77 (6.04%) Disaster Recovery
17 75 (5.88%) Data Analysis
18 72 (5.65%) Computer Science
19 71 (5.57%) Data Migration
20 70 (5.49%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 666 (52.24%) SQL
2 504 (39.53%) C#
3 248 (19.45%) PowerShell
4 165 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 146 (11.45%) T-SQL
6 130 (10.20%) Python
7 109 (8.55%) Java
8 94 (7.37%) Bicep
9 81 (6.35%) PL/SQL
10 51 (4.00%) TypeScript
11 31 (2.43%) VBA
12 27 (2.12%) Bash
13 25 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.96%) VB.NET
14 23 (1.80%) C
15 22 (1.73%) VB
16 19 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 16 (1.25%) C++
18 15 (1.18%) PHP
19 10 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 171 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 151 (11.84%) Degree
3 99 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 62 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.41%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.78%) MCSE
11 8 (0.63%) MCITP
11 8 (0.63%) MCTS
12 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.39%) CISSP
13 5 (0.39%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.31%) ISEB
14 4 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.76%) QA
2 46 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.88%) WCAG
5 14 (1.10%) SLA
6 13 (1.02%) MiFID
7 12 (0.94%) GDPR
8 7 (0.55%) EMIR
9 5 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) GxP
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.16%) NIST
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 255 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (3.29%) Docker
4 24 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.49%) IAG
6 17 (1.33%) ACF2
6 17 (1.33%) RACF
7 11 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
8 8 (0.63%) vSphere
9 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.078%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.078%) Firmware
10 1 (0.078%) KVM
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.078%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 53 (4.16%) Kubernetes
2 47 (3.69%) Terraform
3 43 (3.37%) Ansible
4 39 (3.06%) SCCM
5 31 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.57%) Puppet
7 19 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
8 18 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.02%) Grafana
9 13 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.94%) Nagios
10 12 (0.94%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.78%) Nessus
12 9 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.63%) Graylog
13 8 (0.63%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.63%) SCOM
14 6 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 521 (40.86%) Microsoft
2 279 (21.88%) Oracle
3 71 (5.57%) VMware
4 43 (3.37%) SAP
5 41 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 40 (3.14%) Databricks
7 34 (2.67%) Sybase
8 32 (2.51%) Informatica
8 32 (2.51%) Red Hat
9 30 (2.35%) Citrix
10 23 (1.80%) Veeam
11 19 (1.49%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.41%) CA
12 18 (1.41%) Sparx
12 18 (1.41%) Splunk
13 16 (1.25%) Salesforce
14 13 (1.02%) Qualys
15 12 (0.94%) IBM
15 12 (0.94%) OpenLink
16 10 (0.78%) Cisco