SQL Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 48 41
Rank change year-on-year -49 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 40 121 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.49% 4.21% 4.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.36% 29.16% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 96 134
10th Percentile £344 £363 £284
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +4.10% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £588 £681 £629
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.37% +272.09% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 352 415 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.12% 14.42% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 277 439
10th Percentile £313 £334 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +10.99%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £571
90th Percentile £688 £688 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 3
10th Percentile £20.04 £24.66 £16.89
25th Percentile £22.61 £30.75 £18.53
Median hourly rate £54.59 £43.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% +94.00% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £76.61 £43.00
90th Percentile £63.37 £79.19 £54.55
South East median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire -31 27 £500 -6.98% 20
Buckinghamshire -13 8 £425 -15.00% 9
Oxfordshire -7 5 £513 +1.74% 16
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.50%) Apache
1 1 (2.50%) Jadu
1 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.50%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) AWS
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) DHCP
2 4 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (10.00%) FTP
2 4 (10.00%) NAS
2 4 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
3 6 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (15.00%) MySQL
3 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (7.50%) Tableau
7 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.00%) Impala
7 2 (5.00%) OLTP
7 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.50%) OLAP
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) General Ledger
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) French Language
5 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Database Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) .NET
2 6 (15.00%) HTML
3 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (12.50%) CSS
4 4 (10.00%) WCF
4 4 (10.00%) XML
5 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (7.50%) JSON
6 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
6 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
6 2 (5.00%) WinForms
7 1 (2.50%) Ajax
7 1 (2.50%) LAMP
7 1 (2.50%) MDX
7 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.50%) SOAP
7 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 4 (10.00%) PKI
1 4 (10.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.00%) Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Unix
5 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Agile
1 9 (22.50%) Migration
2 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (17.50%) ETL
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) OO
4 6 (15.00%) Scrum
5 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.50%) MVC
6 4 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Revenue Assurance
7 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
7 3 (7.50%) Customer Service
7 3 (7.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 11 (27.50%) C#
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) Python
6 3 (7.50%) C++
6 3 (7.50%) F#
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Bicep
7 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) Fortran
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.00%) Nessus
2 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.00%) WSUS
2 4 (10.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Graylog
4 1 (2.50%) Nagios
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) Oracle
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.00%) Informatica
4 4 (10.00%) Veeam
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Cadence
5 1 (2.50%) Facebook
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Twitter