SQL Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 101 59 43
Rank change year-on-year -42 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 431 854 1,489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.07% 3.75% 4.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.69% 25.22% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 642 1,112
10th Percentile £306 £335 £307
25th Percentile £388 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +12.12%
75th Percentile £610 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.10% +2.44% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 30
10th Percentile £36.75 £23.87 £20.43
25th Percentile - £27.96 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.90 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% -21.86% +94.00%
75th Percentile £46.18 £62.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £62.96 £77.50 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £48.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -17.95% +2.63% +90.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,582 3,386 5,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.40% 14.87% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 2,410 3,831
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 109 127
10th Percentile £13.61 £21.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59.50 £73.71 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -16 106 £475 -5.00% 195
South East -54 104 £488 -7.14% 123
Midlands 0 90 £450 +4.23% 164
North West -13 73 £463 -7.50% 106
South West -18 70 £538 +6.17% 76
West Midlands -16 45 £525 +1.69% 103
East Midlands +7 42 £445 +18.67% 61
Scotland -16 36 £475 - 45
Yorkshire -7 23 £450 -10.00% 59
East of England -32 23 £475 +5.56% 63
North East +17 10 £475 -13.64% 32
Wales +1 9 £563 +7.14% 9
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (8.12%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.55%) Confluence
4 7 (1.62%) Apache
4 7 (1.62%) SAS
4 7 (1.62%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (1.62%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.16%) IIS
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.46%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) Jadu
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.86%) CATIA
3 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (3.48%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.86%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) Relativity
5 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 159 (36.89%) Azure
2 84 (19.49%) Power Platform
3 56 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.67%) AWS
5 35 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (4.87%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.41%) GitHub
9 18 (4.18%) PowerApps
10 17 (3.94%) Snowflake
11 15 (3.48%) Serverless
12 13 (3.02%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.78%) GCP
13 12 (2.78%) PaaS
14 10 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (2.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.09%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (1.62%) Collibra
18 6 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.57%) DNS
2 21 (4.87%) Firewall
2 21 (4.87%) SAN
3 19 (4.41%) DHCP
4 13 (3.02%) LAN
5 12 (2.78%) WAN
6 11 (2.55%) NAS
6 11 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.86%) MPLS
8 5 (1.16%) FTP
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.93%) Network Security
9 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.70%) BGP
10 3 (0.70%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.70%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.70%) VLAN
10 3 (0.70%) VPN
10 3 (0.70%) Wireless
11 2 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (17.87%) Power BI
2 54 (12.53%) Relational Database
3 49 (11.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (8.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (6.96%) MySQL
7 28 (6.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (5.34%) Tableau
9 21 (4.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 19 (4.41%) Data Lake
10 19 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (3.94%) Oracle Database
12 13 (3.02%) MongoDB
13 10 (2.32%) Metadata
14 9 (2.09%) DB2
15 8 (1.86%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.62%) Ataccama
16 7 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.62%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 32 (7.42%) Git
2 25 (5.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 24 (5.57%) JIRA
4 16 (3.71%) Visual Studio
5 14 (3.25%) GitLab
6 13 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (2.78%) Jenkins
8 8 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.86%) Selenium
9 6 (1.39%) Burp Suite
9 6 (1.39%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.39%) WebDriver
10 5 (1.16%) AppScan
11 4 (0.93%) JMeter
11 4 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.70%) NUnit
13 2 (0.46%) Moq
13 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 82 (19.03%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (12.06%) Finance
4 27 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.25%) Banking
6 10 (2.32%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.86%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.39%) Publishing
10 5 (1.16%) Legal
10 5 (1.16%) Retail
11 4 (0.93%) Automotive
11 4 (0.93%) Marketing
12 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Local Government
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 122 (28.31%) Developer
2 44 (10.21%) DBA
3 41 (9.51%) Analyst
3 41 (9.51%) Architect
4 38 (8.82%) Senior
5 36 (8.35%) SQL DBA
6 35 (8.12%) Administrator
7 34 (7.89%) Data Engineer
8 29 (6.73%) .NET Developer
9 24 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 20 (4.64%) SQL Developer
12 19 (4.41%) Data Analyst
13 18 (4.18%) Lead
14 13 (3.02%) Applications Developer
14 13 (3.02%) Senior Developer
15 12 (2.78%) Software Developer
15 12 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.55%) Power BI Developer
16 11 (2.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (21.35%) .NET
2 35 (8.12%) HTML
3 33 (7.66%) CSS
4 28 (6.50%) .NET Framework
5 27 (6.26%) ASP.NET
6 22 (5.10%) .NET Core
6 22 (5.10%) Entity Framework
7 19 (4.41%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.41%) React
7 19 (4.41%) RESTful
8 17 (3.94%) Web Services
9 14 (3.25%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (2.78%) REST
10 12 (2.78%) XML
11 10 (2.32%) jQuery
11 10 (2.32%) Kafka
12 8 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.86%) SOAP
13 7 (1.62%) ARM Templates
13 7 (1.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.34%) Public Cloud
2 21 (4.87%) Clustering
3 18 (4.18%) Replication
4 13 (3.02%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.02%) PKI
5 11 (2.55%) Client/Server
5 11 (2.55%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.09%) Blog
7 8 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.39%) NHS
9 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.93%) Fat Client
10 4 (0.93%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.27%) Windows
2 54 (12.53%) Windows Server
3 49 (11.37%) Linux
4 20 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (3.71%) Unix
5 16 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (2.32%) Windows 10
7 9 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (2.09%) zOS
8 8 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.39%) VMS
11 5 (1.16%) Android
12 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.93%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (19.49%) Agile
2 82 (19.03%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (18.79%) DevOps
4 53 (12.30%) ETL
4 53 (12.30%) Migration
5 51 (11.83%) Data Modelling
6 49 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (9.51%) High Availability
8 39 (9.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (7.66%) Performance Tuning
10 32 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (7.19%) MVC
12 28 (6.50%) CI/CD
13 27 (6.26%) Analytics
13 27 (6.26%) Data Protection
14 26 (6.03%) Data Migration
14 26 (6.03%) Mentoring
14 26 (6.03%) Visualisation
15 25 (5.80%) Scrum
16 20 (4.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 236 (54.76%) SQL
2 112 (25.99%) C#
3 68 (15.78%) PowerShell
4 49 (11.37%) JavaScript
5 35 (8.12%) Python
5 35 (8.12%) T-SQL
6 30 (6.96%) Java
7 16 (3.71%) C
8 14 (3.25%) Bash
9 11 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (2.32%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.32%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.86%) C++
12 5 (1.16%) PHP
13 4 (0.93%) F#
13 4 (0.93%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.70%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (24.13%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.06%) Degree
4 38 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.86%) MCSE
7 5 (1.16%) MCITP
7 5 (1.16%) MCTS
7 5 (1.16%) SAP Certification
8 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.70%) ISEB
9 3 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.46%) SANS
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.74%) QA
2 15 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.93%) NIST
4 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) GxP
5 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.32%) Docker
5 9 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.86%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (1.86%) vSphere
7 7 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.23%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) IAG
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (5.10%) Ansible
2 21 (4.87%) SCCM
3 16 (3.71%) Terraform
4 14 (3.25%) Microsoft Clustering
5 11 (2.55%) Kubernetes
5 11 (2.55%) Nagios
6 10 (2.32%) Nessus
6 10 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.86%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.86%) Puppet
8 7 (1.62%) Grafana
8 7 (1.62%) Graylog
8 7 (1.62%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (1.39%) WSUS
10 5 (1.16%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.16%) HP Fortify
10 5 (1.16%) SCOM
10 5 (1.16%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 149 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.46%) Oracle
3 46 (10.67%) VMware
4 18 (4.18%) SAP
5 16 (3.71%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.55%) Splunk
7 9 (2.09%) F5
7 9 (2.09%) NetApp
8 8 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.86%) Databricks
8 8 (1.86%) Hitachi
8 8 (1.86%) Siemens
8 8 (1.86%) Veeam
9 7 (1.62%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.62%) Trillium
10 6 (1.39%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.39%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.39%) Cisco
11 5 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.16%) Veracode