SQL Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 80 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 73 111 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.23% 3.28% 3.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.79% 27.34% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 72 90
10th Percentile £365 £400 £283
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £650 £578 £574
90th Percentile £698 £638 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile - £22.36 £50.69
25th Percentile - £24.04 £52.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.15 £58.80
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -52.13% +38.35%
75th Percentile - £33.33 £63.60
90th Percentile - £35.65 -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £41.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -2.13% -17.17% +94.12%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 335 406 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.24% 12.00% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 294 422
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £686 £734 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 13
10th Percentile - £19.38 £48.85
25th Percentile £17.50 £50.31 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +3.77% +48.36%
75th Percentile £55.75 £78.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +72.48%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +5 22 £625 +25.00% 22
Somerset +1 10 £350 -22.22% 11
Wiltshire -8 10 £400 -22.89% 11
Gloucestershire -25 10 £463 -13.95% 5
Devon -2 1 - - 10
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (15.07%) SharePoint
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Teamcenter
2 3 (4.11%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 25 (34.25%) Power Platform
3 14 (19.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (16.44%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.85%) AWS
7 3 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.11%) Sumo Logic
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.74%) Matillion
8 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) DHCP
1 8 (10.96%) DNS
1 8 (10.96%) LAN
1 8 (10.96%) MPLS
1 8 (10.96%) SAN
1 8 (10.96%) WAN
1 8 (10.96%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.25%) Power BI
2 20 (27.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (19.18%) Relational Database
4 13 (17.81%) Oracle Database
5 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 12 (16.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (16.44%) Tableau
6 4 (5.48%) Biml
6 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.74%) Power Query
9 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.37%) Metadata
9 1 (1.37%) MySQL
9 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Git
1 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
1 3 (4.11%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.11%) Local Government
4 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Architect
2 17 (23.29%) Data Engineer
2 17 (23.29%) Developer
3 8 (10.96%) Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) IT Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 8 (10.96%) SharePoint Architect
4 6 (8.22%) Systems Architect
5 5 (6.85%) .NET Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Oracle Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Active Directory Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Power BI Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Report Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.11%) SSIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) .NET
2 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (4.11%) MassTransit
3 3 (4.11%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.74%) CSS
4 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 2 (2.74%) jQuery
4 2 (2.74%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.37%) Blazor
5 1 (1.37%) PySpark
5 1 (1.37%) React
5 1 (1.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Blog
1 9 (12.33%) Replication
2 8 (10.96%) Client/Server
2 8 (10.96%) Clustering
2 8 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.96%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.11%) Housing Association
4 2 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Windows
2 11 (15.07%) Unix
3 8 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.48%) Linux
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (30.14%) Data Modelling
3 20 (27.40%) ETL
4 17 (23.29%) Data Protection
4 17 (23.29%) DevOps
5 16 (21.92%) Migration
6 14 (19.18%) Data Migration
7 13 (17.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 13 (17.81%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (15.07%) Agile
9 10 (13.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (12.33%) Database Optimisation
10 9 (12.33%) Security Management
11 8 (10.96%) Business Transformation
11 8 (10.96%) Capacity Management
11 8 (10.96%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (10.96%) Decision-Making
11 8 (10.96%) High Availability
11 8 (10.96%) Network Management
11 8 (10.96%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.68%) SQL
2 19 (26.03%) C#
3 12 (16.44%) T-SQL
4 11 (15.07%) PL/SQL
4 11 (15.07%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.33%) C
6 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.11%) Python
8 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) Bash
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 44 (60.27%) Security Cleared
2 30 (41.10%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.55%) Degree
3 15 (20.55%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.85%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (34.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.96%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (10.96%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (4.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) SCCM
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (10.96%) Nagios
2 8 (10.96%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.74%) SCDPM
3 2 (2.74%) SCVMM
3 2 (2.74%) WSUS
4 1 (1.37%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.37%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.37%) Kibana
4 1 (1.37%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.37%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.18%) Oracle
3 9 (12.33%) VMware
4 8 (10.96%) Hitachi
4 8 (10.96%) NetApp
5 7 (9.59%) SAP
6 3 (4.11%) NEC
7 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.37%) Citrix
7 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.37%) Commvault
7 1 (1.37%) Databricks
7 1 (1.37%) HP
7 1 (1.37%) Okta
7 1 (1.37%) Symantec
7 1 (1.37%) Veritas