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 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 58 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,237 2,110 3,564
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.40% 4.35% 5.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.85% 24.46% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 1,634 2,727
10th Percentile £331 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.44% +11.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 37
10th Percentile £36.75 £22.50 -
25th Percentile - £29.44 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -17.17% +90.38%
75th Percentile £46.18 £63.13 £69.05
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.00 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £47.00 £47.09
% change year-on-year -14.89% -0.18% +81.10%

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 6,232 8,625 14,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.12% 17.80% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,500 6,210 10,186
10th Percentile £351 £375 £364
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 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 156 168
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.82 £30.54 £22.22
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%
75th Percentile £58.44 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 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
London +2 823 £535 -6.96% 420
North of England -15 108 £475 -2.56% 237
South East -48 103 £475 -6.40% 200
Midlands -5 84 £450 +1.41% 195
North West -17 72 £475 - 123
South West -21 69 £550 +10.00% 103
West Midlands -6 45 £518 -0.48% 123
East Midlands +5 36 £445 +11.25% 72
Yorkshire -12 26 £450 -10.00% 82
East of England -31 23 £475 +11.11% 68
North East +15 10 £475 -5.00% 33
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 66 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.83%) IIS
3 26 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.78%) Apache
5 21 (1.70%) Confluence
6 20 (1.62%) CMS
7 15 (1.21%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.57%) SAS
9 7 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.49%) JBoss
10 6 (0.49%) nginx
10 6 (0.49%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.24%) Tornado
11 3 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (1.46%) Endur
2 17 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (1.21%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.65%) DELMIA
6 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.32%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.32%) OPENHousing
8 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
9 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.16%) Relativity
9 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
9 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.081%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.081%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.081%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 586 (47.37%) Azure
2 262 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
3 207 (16.73%) Power Platform
4 149 (12.05%) AWS
5 95 (7.68%) Entra ID
6 83 (6.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 82 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
8 77 (6.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 75 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 60 (4.85%) PowerApps
11 58 (4.69%) GitHub
12 55 (4.45%) Serverless
13 53 (4.28%) Power Automate
14 50 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
15 47 (3.80%) Azure Functions
16 40 (3.23%) PaaS
17 34 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
19 26 (2.10%) Collibra
19 26 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.80%) Firewall
2 40 (3.23%) DNS
3 26 (2.10%) SAN
4 21 (1.70%) DHCP
4 21 (1.70%) Internet
5 17 (1.37%) LAN
5 17 (1.37%) WAN
6 15 (1.21%) NAS
7 14 (1.13%) FTP
8 12 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.65%) MPLS
10 6 (0.49%) SSH
10 6 (0.49%) SSL
10 6 (0.49%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.49%) VPN
10 6 (0.49%) Wireless
11 5 (0.40%) Network Security
12 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (14.87%) Power BI
2 137 (11.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 128 (10.35%) Data Warehouse
4 114 (9.22%) Relational Database
5 92 (7.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 89 (7.19%) MySQL
7 84 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
8 58 (4.69%) NoSQL
9 55 (4.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 51 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 46 (3.72%) Oracle Database
12 45 (3.64%) Metadata
13 37 (2.99%) Data Lake
14 33 (2.67%) MongoDB
15 31 (2.51%) RDBMS
16 30 (2.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 29 (2.34%) Tableau
18 26 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
19 23 (1.86%) Big Data
20 21 (1.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 128 (10.35%) Git
2 70 (5.66%) JIRA
3 55 (4.45%) Visual Studio
4 44 (3.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.23%) SpecFlow
6 32 (2.59%) Selenium
7 29 (2.34%) TeamCity
8 27 (2.18%) GitLab
8 27 (2.18%) Jenkins
9 18 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.13%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.13%) WebDriver
12 12 (0.97%) JMeter
13 10 (0.81%) ERwin
13 10 (0.81%) NUnit
14 9 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Team System
15 8 (0.65%) Postman
15 8 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 266 (21.50%) Finance
2 261 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 135 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 114 (9.22%) Banking
6 50 (4.04%) Back Office
7 37 (2.99%) Front Office
8 30 (2.43%) Investment Banking
9 28 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.94%) Marketing
11 23 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.70%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.54%) Local Government
14 18 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.46%) Retail
15 15 (1.21%) Electronics
16 14 (1.13%) Publishing
17 13 (1.05%) Legal
18 11 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 504 (40.74%) Developer
2 194 (15.68%) Senior
3 135 (10.91%) Senior Developer
4 122 (9.86%) C# Developer
5 109 (8.81%) .NET Developer
6 88 (7.11%) Architect
7 86 (6.95%) Analyst
8 79 (6.39%) Data Engineer
9 67 (5.42%) Software Developer
10 64 (5.17%) DBA
11 59 (4.77%) Lead
12 56 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (4.37%) Azure Developer
13 54 (4.37%) SQL Developer
14 49 (3.96%) SQL DBA
15 48 (3.88%) Senior Software Developer
16 46 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
17 45 (3.64%) Administrator
17 45 (3.64%) Consultant
18 42 (3.40%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (32.66%) .NET
2 157 (12.69%) XML
3 141 (11.40%) .NET Core
4 128 (10.35%) .NET Framework
5 119 (9.62%) HTML
6 98 (7.92%) ASP.NET
7 95 (7.68%) AngularJS
8 89 (7.19%) CSS
9 81 (6.55%) React
10 58 (4.69%) Web Services
11 56 (4.53%) REST
12 44 (3.56%) Entity Framework
13 43 (3.48%) JSON
14 39 (3.15%) Kafka
15 38 (3.07%) RESTful
15 38 (3.07%) SOAP
16 36 (2.91%) WCF
17 35 (2.83%) jQuery
18 30 (2.43%) ARM Templates
18 30 (2.43%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.09%) Product Ownership
2 57 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 42 (3.40%) Clustering
3 42 (3.40%) Replication
4 27 (2.18%) Public Cloud
5 24 (1.94%) Client/Server
6 23 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.78%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.46%) Derivative
11 17 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.21%) PKI
13 14 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
15 11 (0.89%) Contactless
15 11 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 244 (19.73%) Windows
2 121 (9.78%) Windows Server
3 115 (9.30%) Linux
4 54 (4.37%) Unix
5 43 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 43 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.94%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (0.73%) Android
9 9 (0.73%) VMS
9 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.57%) zOS
12 5 (0.40%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (32.34%) Agile
2 371 (29.99%) DevOps
3 213 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
4 186 (15.04%) CI/CD
5 182 (14.71%) Scrum
6 171 (13.82%) Migration
7 165 (13.34%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (12.29%) ETL
9 135 (10.91%) Data Modelling
10 116 (9.38%) TDD
11 94 (7.60%) OO
12 79 (6.39%) SDLC
12 79 (6.39%) Software Engineering
13 78 (6.31%) MVC
14 77 (6.22%) Data Analysis
15 74 (5.98%) Analytics
16 71 (5.74%) B2C
16 71 (5.74%) Disaster Recovery
17 69 (5.58%) Data Migration
17 69 (5.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 646 (52.22%) SQL
2 481 (38.88%) C#
3 249 (20.13%) PowerShell
4 153 (12.37%) JavaScript
5 135 (10.91%) Python
6 132 (10.67%) T-SQL
7 115 (9.30%) Java
8 98 (7.92%) Bicep
9 78 (6.31%) PL/SQL
10 54 (4.37%) TypeScript
11 28 (2.26%) VBA
12 26 (2.10%) Bash
13 21 (1.70%) C
14 19 (1.54%) VB
15 18 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 17 (1.37%) Shell Script
16 17 (1.37%) VB.NET
17 14 (1.13%) C++
17 14 (1.13%) PHP
18 10 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 170 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 135 (10.91%) Degree
3 99 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 43 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.13%) Master's Degree
8 11 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.81%) ISTQB
9 10 (0.81%) MCSE
10 8 (0.65%) MCITP
10 8 (0.65%) MCTS
11 6 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.40%) CISSP
12 5 (0.40%) SAP Certification
13 4 (0.32%) ISEB
14 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.92%) QA
2 47 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.02%) WCAG
5 14 (1.13%) GDPR
6 13 (1.05%) MiFID
6 13 (1.05%) SLA
7 7 (0.57%) EMIR
8 5 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 2 (0.16%) GxP
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS
11 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.16%) NIST
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 256 (20.70%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (3.56%) Docker
4 21 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.54%) IAG
6 17 (1.37%) ACF2
6 17 (1.37%) RACF
7 10 (0.81%) vSphere
8 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.65%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.081%) KVM
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.081%) vCloud
12 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 48 (3.88%) Terraform
3 45 (3.64%) Ansible
4 37 (2.99%) SCCM
5 31 (2.51%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (1.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 19 (1.54%) Puppet
9 16 (1.29%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.05%) Grafana
11 12 (0.97%) Nagios
11 12 (0.97%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.81%) Nessus
14 9 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.65%) Graylog
15 8 (0.65%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.49%) SCOM
16 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 496 (40.10%) Microsoft
2 271 (21.91%) Oracle
3 71 (5.74%) VMware
4 46 (3.72%) SAP
5 43 (3.48%) Databricks
6 41 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.43%) Red Hat
7 30 (2.43%) Sybase
8 29 (2.34%) Informatica
9 28 (2.26%) Veeam
10 27 (2.18%) Citrix
11 18 (1.46%) CyberArk
11 18 (1.46%) Sparx
12 17 (1.37%) Splunk
13 16 (1.29%) CA
14 13 (1.05%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.97%) Cisco
15 12 (0.97%) IBM
15 12 (0.97%) OpenLink
15 12 (0.97%) Qualys