SQL Server Contracts in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 58 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,248 2,025 3,493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.40% 4.26% 4.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.99% 24.13% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,575 2,683
10th Percentile £328 £373 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.44% +10.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 33
10th Percentile £36.75 £25.43 -
25th Percentile - £32.40 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +95.54%
75th Percentile £46.18 £72.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £48.75 £48.50
% change year-on-year -17.95% +0.52% +93.46%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,243 8,392 13,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.98% 17.67% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,511 6,026 10,009
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £663
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 159 162
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.33
25th Percentile £20.70 £32.30 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +80.50%
75th Percentile £55.63 £74.38 £63.60
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.60 £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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +4 830 £538 -6.52% 348
North of England -16 107 £475 -5.00% 213
South East -53 103 £475 -7.09% 132
Midlands -5 90 £450 +4.23% 181
North West -10 74 £463 -5.13% 118
South West -21 71 £544 +6.10% 85
West Midlands -15 45 £525 +1.69% 109
East Midlands +10 42 £445 +18.67% 72
Yorkshire -15 23 £450 -10.00% 61
East of England -22 23 £475 +5.56% 69
North East +15 10 £475 -13.64% 36
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 68 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.88%) IIS
3 26 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.68%) Apache
4 21 (1.68%) Confluence
5 20 (1.60%) CMS
6 15 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.56%) SAS
8 7 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.48%) JBoss
9 6 (0.48%) nginx
9 6 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) Jadu
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.64%) CATIA
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.080%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.080%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.080%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 17 (1.36%) Endur
2 15 (1.20%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.64%) DELMIA
5 6 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.40%) NEC Housing
6 5 (0.40%) OPENHousing
7 4 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Relativity
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
8 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.080%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.080%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 599 (48.00%) Azure
2 260 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 208 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 151 (12.10%) AWS
5 98 (7.85%) Entra ID
6 88 (7.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 85 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (6.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 75 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 61 (4.89%) PowerApps
10 60 (4.81%) GitHub
11 53 (4.25%) Power Automate
12 51 (4.09%) Serverless
13 50 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
14 43 (3.45%) Azure Functions
15 38 (3.04%) PaaS
16 33 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (2.24%) Snowflake
18 26 (2.08%) SaaS
19 24 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.53%) Firewall
2 38 (3.04%) DNS
3 26 (2.08%) SAN
4 22 (1.76%) Internet
5 20 (1.60%) DHCP
6 17 (1.36%) LAN
7 16 (1.28%) WAN
8 15 (1.20%) FTP
9 14 (1.12%) NAS
10 12 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.64%) MPLS
12 6 (0.48%) SSH
12 6 (0.48%) SSL
12 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.40%) Network Security
13 5 (0.40%) VPN
14 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (0.32%) HTTP
14 4 (0.32%) VLAN
14 4 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (14.90%) Power BI
2 135 (10.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 133 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
4 120 (9.62%) Relational Database
5 95 (7.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 91 (7.29%) MySQL
7 82 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (4.97%) NoSQL
9 55 (4.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 54 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 50 (4.01%) Oracle Database
12 43 (3.45%) Metadata
13 38 (3.04%) Data Lake
14 35 (2.80%) MongoDB
15 33 (2.64%) RDBMS
16 32 (2.56%) Tableau
17 29 (2.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 26 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
19 23 (1.84%) Big Data
19 23 (1.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 125 (10.02%) Git
2 69 (5.53%) JIRA
3 54 (4.33%) Visual Studio
4 45 (3.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.21%) SpecFlow
6 32 (2.56%) Selenium
7 28 (2.24%) GitLab
7 28 (2.24%) Jenkins
7 28 (2.24%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
9 14 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 14 (1.12%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.96%) JMeter
11 9 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.72%) ERwin
11 9 (0.72%) NUnit
11 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.64%) Postman
12 8 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 265 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 259 (20.75%) Finance
3 138 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (9.29%) Banking
4 116 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 50 (4.01%) Back Office
6 38 (3.04%) Front Office
7 32 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 22 (1.76%) Marketing
10 21 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.52%) Local Government
12 16 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.28%) Retail
13 14 (1.12%) Legal
13 14 (1.12%) Publishing
14 13 (1.04%) Electronics
15 11 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 512 (41.03%) Developer
2 193 (15.46%) Senior
3 135 (10.82%) Senior Developer
4 122 (9.78%) C# Developer
5 113 (9.05%) .NET Developer
6 88 (7.05%) Analyst
7 86 (6.89%) Architect
7 86 (6.89%) Data Engineer
8 67 (5.37%) Software Developer
9 62 (4.97%) DBA
10 59 (4.73%) Lead
11 55 (4.41%) SQL Developer
12 54 (4.33%) Azure Developer
12 54 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 49 (3.93%) Full Stack Developer
14 48 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
14 48 (3.85%) SQL DBA
15 46 (3.69%) Administrator
16 43 (3.45%) Consultant
17 42 (3.37%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (33.01%) .NET
2 156 (12.50%) XML
3 138 (11.06%) .NET Core
4 133 (10.66%) .NET Framework
5 125 (10.02%) HTML
6 101 (8.09%) ASP.NET
7 95 (7.61%) AngularJS
8 93 (7.45%) CSS
9 82 (6.57%) React
10 59 (4.73%) Web Services
11 53 (4.25%) REST
12 46 (3.69%) Entity Framework
13 42 (3.37%) Kafka
14 39 (3.13%) RESTful
15 38 (3.04%) JSON
16 36 (2.88%) SOAP
16 36 (2.88%) WCF
17 34 (2.72%) jQuery
18 30 (2.40%) ASP.NET MVC
19 28 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 58 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 42 (3.37%) Clustering
4 39 (3.13%) Replication
5 27 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.92%) Client/Server
6 24 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.76%) Hedge funds
8 20 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.36%) Derivative
11 16 (1.28%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.20%) PKI
13 14 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.88%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 252 (20.19%) Windows
2 122 (9.78%) Linux
3 120 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.49%) Unix
5 44 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (2.00%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (0.72%) Android
9 9 (0.72%) VMS
9 9 (0.72%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (0.64%) zOS
11 7 (0.56%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.48%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (31.81%) Agile
2 365 (29.25%) DevOps
3 209 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
4 181 (14.50%) Scrum
5 177 (14.18%) CI/CD
6 164 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (12.98%) Migration
8 150 (12.02%) ETL
9 140 (11.22%) Data Modelling
10 117 (9.38%) TDD
11 92 (7.37%) OO
12 79 (6.33%) SDLC
13 78 (6.25%) MVC
14 77 (6.17%) Software Engineering
15 76 (6.09%) Analytics
15 76 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 75 (6.01%) Data Analysis
17 73 (5.85%) Computer Science
18 69 (5.53%) B2C
18 69 (5.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 645 (51.68%) SQL
2 486 (38.94%) C#
3 249 (19.95%) PowerShell
4 151 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 137 (10.98%) T-SQL
6 133 (10.66%) Python
7 111 (8.89%) Java
8 97 (7.77%) Bicep
9 78 (6.25%) PL/SQL
10 52 (4.17%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.32%) VBA
12 27 (2.16%) Bash
13 24 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.76%) C
15 21 (1.68%) VB
16 19 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 18 (1.44%) VB.NET
18 16 (1.28%) C++
19 15 (1.20%) PHP
20 10 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 170 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 144 (11.54%) Degree
3 99 (7.93%) SC Cleared
4 61 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 45 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.80%) MCSE
11 8 (0.64%) MCITP
11 8 (0.64%) MCTS
12 6 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.40%) CISSP
13 5 (0.40%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.32%) ISEB
15 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.85%) QA
2 44 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.92%) WCAG
5 14 (1.12%) SLA
6 13 (1.04%) GDPR
6 13 (1.04%) MiFID
7 7 (0.56%) EMIR
8 5 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.16%) GxP
10 2 (0.16%) IFRS
10 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.16%) NIST
10 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 259 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 50 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (3.37%) Docker
4 24 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.52%) IAG
6 17 (1.36%) ACF2
6 17 (1.36%) RACF
7 12 (0.96%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.72%) vSphere
10 8 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.080%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.080%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 54 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 46 (3.69%) Terraform
3 44 (3.53%) Ansible
4 39 (3.13%) SCCM
5 31 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
6 20 (1.60%) Puppet
7 17 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 13 (1.04%) Grafana
9 12 (0.96%) Nagios
9 12 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.80%) Nessus
12 9 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.64%) Graylog
13 8 (0.64%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.64%) SCOM
14 7 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 507 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 272 (21.79%) Oracle
3 73 (5.85%) VMware
4 43 (3.45%) SAP
5 41 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 39 (3.13%) Databricks
7 32 (2.56%) Informatica
7 32 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 32 (2.56%) Sybase
8 31 (2.48%) Citrix
9 24 (1.92%) Veeam
10 19 (1.52%) CyberArk
11 18 (1.44%) Sparx
12 17 (1.36%) CA
12 17 (1.36%) Splunk
13 16 (1.28%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.96%) Qualys
15 11 (0.88%) Cisco
15 11 (0.88%) IBM
15 11 (0.88%) OpenLink