SQL Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 45 35
Rank change year-on-year -54 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 104 249 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.84% 4.41% 5.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.99% 30.51% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 193 294
10th Percentile £309 £319 £338
25th Percentile £386 £425 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £574
90th Percentile £650 £688 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile £43.99 - -
25th Percentile £54.85 £75.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% +272.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.00 - £60.52
England median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +98.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 612 816 1,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.85% 14.47% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 572 959
10th Percentile £313 £319 £340
25th Percentile £380 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 41 27
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +64.29% -19.54%
75th Percentile £62.96 £75.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.75 £58.16
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
% change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +76.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley -51 35 £450 -11.33% 32
Hampshire -25 29 £600 +17.07% 27
Berkshire -32 24 £475 -12.64% 13
Surrey -14 13 £559 +10.10% 14
West Sussex +14 10 £413 -17.50% 1
East Sussex +8 9 £380 -60.00% 12
Buckinghamshire -15 8 £425 -15.00% 10
Home Counties +6 4 £475 +5.56%
Kent +1 4 £550 -22.26% 17
Oxfordshire -3 3 £538 +17.49% 9
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (4.81%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.96%) Jadu
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.96%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.96%) Epicor Tropos
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.96%) Relativity
1 1 (0.96%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.62%) Azure
2 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.85%) AWS
4 4 (3.85%) Azure API Management
4 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 4 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.85%) Serverless
5 3 (2.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (2.88%) GitHub
5 3 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.88%) PaaS
5 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.92%) SaaS
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) SAN
2 7 (6.73%) NAS
3 6 (5.77%) Firewall
4 5 (4.81%) DHCP
4 5 (4.81%) DNS
5 4 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (3.85%) FTP
6 3 (2.88%) BGP
6 3 (2.88%) IOS XR
7 2 (1.92%) LAN
7 2 (1.92%) Network Security
7 2 (1.92%) SSL
7 2 (1.92%) WAN
8 1 (0.96%) Internet
8 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.58%) Power BI
3 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (7.69%) MySQL
6 7 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.81%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
9 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.88%) Tableau
11 2 (1.92%) CouchDB
11 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.92%) Impala
11 2 (1.92%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) JIRA
2 7 (6.73%) Git
3 6 (5.77%) Visual Studio
4 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.85%) GitLab
5 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.92%) JMeter
6 2 (1.92%) Selenium
6 2 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.96%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 7 (6.73%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Automotive
7 2 (1.92%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.96%) Back Office
8 1 (0.96%) Electronics
8 1 (0.96%) French Language
8 1 (0.96%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (34.62%) Developer
2 13 (12.50%) DBA
3 12 (11.54%) SQL DBA
4 10 (9.62%) Administrator
4 10 (9.62%) Senior
5 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Azure Developer
6 8 (7.69%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.73%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.77%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Analyst
8 6 (5.77%) Support Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) C# Developer
10 4 (3.85%) Consultant
10 4 (3.85%) Database Specialist
10 4 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) .NET
2 16 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 14 (13.46%) HTML
4 12 (11.54%) CSS
5 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET
5 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (7.69%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.73%) .NET Framework
7 7 (6.73%) RESTful
8 5 (4.81%) Blazor
8 5 (4.81%) JSON
8 5 (4.81%) REST
9 4 (3.85%) Entity Framework
9 4 (3.85%) XML
10 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.88%) Django
10 3 (2.88%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (2.88%) React
10 3 (2.88%) SOAP
10 3 (2.88%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) PKI
2 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.77%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.85%) Replication
4 4 (3.85%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.88%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.96%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Windows
2 16 (15.38%) Linux
3 14 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (5.77%) Unix
6 5 (4.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.88%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.92%) VMS
8 2 (1.92%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.96%) Android
9 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) Agile
2 24 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (14.42%) DevOps
5 14 (13.46%) Migration
5 14 (13.46%) Scrum
6 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.50%) MVC
7 11 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (10.58%) OO
8 9 (8.65%) CI/CD
8 9 (8.65%) ETL
8 9 (8.65%) Project Management
8 9 (8.65%) Security Hardening
9 8 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (7.69%) High Availability
10 7 (6.73%) Analytics
10 7 (6.73%) Data Protection
10 7 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.77%) SQL
2 30 (28.85%) C#
3 22 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.69%) Bash
5 8 (7.69%) Java
6 7 (6.73%) C++
7 6 (5.77%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.81%) Python
9 4 (3.85%) F#
10 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.96%) Bicep
11 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.96%) Fortran
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.96%) VBA
11 1 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.58%) Degree
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) GxP
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.81%) vSphere
4 4 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.92%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (10.58%) Ansible
2 5 (4.81%) Nessus
2 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.85%) WSUS
3 4 (3.85%) ZABBIX
4 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.92%) SCCM
6 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) Grafana
6 1 (0.96%) Graylog
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) Nagios
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.96%) SCOM
6 1 (0.96%) SCSM
Vendors
1 29 (27.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.19%) Oracle
3 14 (13.46%) VMware
4 8 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.81%) Veeam
6 4 (3.85%) Informatica
7 3 (2.88%) Cisco
7 3 (2.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.88%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.96%) Cadence
9 1 (0.96%) Compaq
9 1 (0.96%) Facebook
9 1 (0.96%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.96%) Splunk
9 1 (0.96%) Twitter
9 1 (0.96%) WatchGuard