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 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 58 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,248 2,017 3,485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.38% 4.25% 4.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.93% 24.07% 25.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,569 2,664
10th Percentile £331 £363 £351
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 £509 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.10% +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% +98.89%
75th Percentile £46.18 £72.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.00 £75.67
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
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 6,261 8,378 13,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.97% 17.65% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,518 6,021 9,998
10th Percentile £350 £375 £364
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 -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 159 164
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.91
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.44
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +76.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £74.38 £63.60
90th Percentile £73.25 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
London +5 831 £538 -6.52% 336
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
Yorkshire -7 23 £450 -10.00% 59
East of England -32 23 £475 +5.56% 63
North East +17 10 £475 -13.64% 32
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 69 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.88%) IIS
3 27 (2.16%) 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%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.16%) Jadu
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.52%) 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%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.48%) OPENHousing
5 6 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 5 (0.40%) MIS ActiveH
7 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.16%) Relativity
7 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.16%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.080%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.080%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 603 (48.32%) Azure
2 259 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
3 209 (16.75%) Power Platform
4 151 (12.10%) AWS
5 99 (7.93%) Entra ID
6 87 (6.97%) 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 59 (4.73%) GitHub
11 53 (4.25%) Power Automate
12 50 (4.01%) Serverless
13 49 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (3.37%) Azure Functions
15 39 (3.13%) PaaS
16 33 (2.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 28 (2.24%) Snowflake
18 25 (2.00%) SaaS
19 24 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.45%) Firewall
2 37 (2.96%) DNS
3 26 (2.08%) SAN
4 22 (1.76%) Internet
5 19 (1.52%) DHCP
6 16 (1.28%) LAN
7 15 (1.20%) FTP
7 15 (1.20%) WAN
8 14 (1.12%) NAS
9 12 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.64%) MPLS
11 6 (0.48%) SSH
11 6 (0.48%) SSL
11 6 (0.48%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.40%) VPN
13 4 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.32%) HTTP
13 4 (0.32%) Network Security
13 4 (0.32%) VLAN
13 4 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (14.98%) Power BI
2 136 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
2 136 (10.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 122 (9.78%) Relational Database
4 97 (7.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 90 (7.21%) MySQL
6 81 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
7 63 (5.05%) NoSQL
8 57 (4.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (4.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 49 (3.93%) Oracle Database
11 43 (3.45%) Metadata
12 39 (3.13%) Data Lake
13 35 (2.80%) MongoDB
14 33 (2.64%) RDBMS
15 32 (2.56%) Tableau
16 29 (2.32%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 26 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
18 24 (1.92%) Redis
19 23 (1.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 123 (9.86%) Git
2 67 (5.37%) JIRA
3 53 (4.25%) 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%) Jenkins
7 28 (2.24%) TeamCity
8 27 (2.16%) GitLab
9 18 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 14 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 14 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (1.12%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.96%) JMeter
12 9 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.72%) ERwin
12 9 (0.72%) NUnit
13 8 (0.64%) Postman
13 8 (0.64%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.64%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 267 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 258 (20.67%) Finance
3 139 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 114 (9.13%) Banking
6 50 (4.01%) Back Office
7 39 (3.13%) Front Office
8 32 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 25 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.68%) Marketing
11 20 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.52%) Local Government
13 16 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.28%) Retail
14 14 (1.12%) Legal
14 14 (1.12%) Publishing
15 12 (0.96%) Electronics
16 11 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 516 (41.35%) Developer
2 193 (15.46%) Senior
3 135 (10.82%) Senior Developer
4 124 (9.94%) C# Developer
5 114 (9.13%) .NET Developer
6 89 (7.13%) Analyst
6 89 (7.13%) Data Engineer
7 86 (6.89%) Architect
8 67 (5.37%) Software Developer
9 60 (4.81%) DBA
10 57 (4.57%) Lead
11 56 (4.49%) SQL Developer
12 54 (4.33%) Azure Developer
13 52 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
15 48 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
16 47 (3.77%) SQL DBA
17 46 (3.69%) Administrator
18 43 (3.45%) Consultant
19 42 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (33.09%) .NET
2 155 (12.42%) XML
3 137 (10.98%) .NET Core
4 134 (10.74%) .NET Framework
5 125 (10.02%) HTML
6 102 (8.17%) 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 47 (3.77%) Entity Framework
13 42 (3.37%) Kafka
14 39 (3.13%) RESTful
15 37 (2.96%) 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 41 (3.29%) Clustering
4 39 (3.13%) Replication
5 27 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.92%) Client/Server
8 22 (1.76%) Hedge funds
9 20 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.36%) Derivative
12 16 (1.28%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.20%) PKI
14 14 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
15 12 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.88%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 250 (20.03%) Windows
2 120 (9.62%) Linux
2 120 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 56 (4.49%) Unix
4 43 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 42 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 16 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (0.80%) Android
10 9 (0.72%) VMS
11 8 (0.64%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.64%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.64%) zOS
12 7 (0.56%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.48%) CentOS
13 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (31.65%) Agile
2 363 (29.09%) DevOps
3 211 (16.91%) Business Intelligence
4 181 (14.50%) Scrum
5 177 (14.18%) CI/CD
6 165 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (13.14%) Migration
8 151 (12.10%) ETL
9 141 (11.30%) Data Modelling
10 117 (9.38%) TDD
11 92 (7.37%) OO
12 79 (6.33%) MVC
13 78 (6.25%) SDLC
14 77 (6.17%) Analytics
14 77 (6.17%) Software Engineering
15 76 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
16 74 (5.93%) Data Analysis
17 73 (5.85%) Computer Science
18 69 (5.53%) B2C
19 68 (5.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 641 (51.36%) SQL
2 487 (39.02%) C#
3 249 (19.95%) PowerShell
4 151 (12.10%) JavaScript
5 136 (10.90%) T-SQL
6 133 (10.66%) Python
7 111 (8.89%) Java
8 96 (7.69%) Bicep
9 77 (6.17%) PL/SQL
10 52 (4.17%) TypeScript
11 28 (2.24%) 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 17 (1.36%) VB.NET
18 16 (1.28%) C++
19 15 (1.20%) PHP
20 10 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 168 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 144 (11.54%) Degree
3 98 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.81%) 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
1 257 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.45%) 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%) vSphere
10 8 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.080%) KVM
12 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.080%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 54 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 46 (3.69%) Terraform
3 43 (3.45%) Ansible
4 40 (3.21%) SCCM
5 31 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (1.60%) Puppet
7 19 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
8 17 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.04%) Grafana
10 12 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.96%) Nagios
10 12 (0.96%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.80%) Nessus
12 9 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.64%) Graylog
13 8 (0.64%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.56%) SCOM
15 6 (0.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 508 (40.71%) Microsoft
2 270 (21.63%) Oracle
3 71 (5.69%) VMware
4 42 (3.37%) SAP
5 41 (3.29%) ServiceNow
6 39 (3.13%) Databricks
7 32 (2.56%) Informatica
7 32 (2.56%) Sybase
8 31 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 30 (2.40%) Citrix
10 24 (1.92%) Veeam
11 19 (1.52%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.44%) Sparx
13 17 (1.36%) CA
13 17 (1.36%) Splunk
14 16 (1.28%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.96%) Qualys
16 11 (0.88%) Cisco
16 11 (0.88%) IBM
16 11 (0.88%) OpenLink