SQL Server Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 62 48
Rank change year-on-year -22 -14 +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 23 62 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.19% 3.18% 4.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.10% 27.19% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 47 95
10th Percentile £335 £291 £218
25th Percentile £353 £384 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £579 £541 £538
90th Percentile £658 £550 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.88
25th Percentile £22.75 - £68.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £71.38
75th Percentile £26.25 - £74.19
90th Percentile - - £75.88
England median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +95.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 109 228 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 5.64% 11.68% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 158 276
10th Percentile £300 £271 £296
25th Percentile £350 £388 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £554 £575 £589
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 17
10th Percentile £12.72 £41.25 £12.57
25th Percentile £14.02 £61.25 £26.98
Median hourly rate £15.49 £65.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.35% +87.14% +65.68%
75th Percentile £23.68 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £29.88 £73.75 £66.96
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +80.50%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hertfordshire -15 10 £575 +15.00% 20
Cambridgeshire +1 6 £475 +2.70% 11
Bedfordshire -5 3 £425 +25.93% 9
Norfolk - 3 £292 - 12
Suffolk +11 1 £325 -38.10% 4
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) PTC Creo
1 1 (4.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
2 5 (21.74%) Power Automate
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (17.39%) PowerApps
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) Collibra
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (4.35%) DHCP
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) NAS
1 1 (4.35%) PBX
1 1 (4.35%) SAN
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) VLAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
2 2 (8.70%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Ataccama
3 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) MS Access
3 1 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.35%) QlikView
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.35%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Applications Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Developer
4 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Design Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
3 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
3 3 (13.04%) Entity Framework
4 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) WCF
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) jQuery
5 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) LINQ
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) Swagger
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) PKI
2 4 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) e-Learning
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Code
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2016
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Migration
1 7 (30.43%) Web Development
2 5 (21.74%) High Availability
2 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
2 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
2 5 (21.74%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) Workflow
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Informatics
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) MVC
5 2 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.70%) Analytics
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) C
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) CCIE
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) MCSE
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Dataiku
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Trillium