SSDT Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SSDT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSDT over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 687 834
Rank change year-on-year +110 +147 -116
Contract jobs citing SSDT 7 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.018% 0.016%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.094% 0.10% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £583 £470 £469
25th Percentile £613 £556 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile - £679 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 -
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SSDT 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,468 9,744 17,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 17.54% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,332 6,905 12,217
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 173 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%
75th Percentile £53.94 £73.75 £63.30
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSDT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSDT.

Daily rate trend for SSDT in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSDT.

Hourly rate trend for SSDT in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +82 6 £638 -1.92% 5
UK excluding London +26 5 £625 -3.85% 4
South East +14 4 £625 -3.85% 1
Work from Home +116 3 £613 -5.77% 3
Scotland - 1 £575 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure API Management
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Environment And Release Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Environment Manager
1 5 (71.43%) Release Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle