SQL Server Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 67 46
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 106 172 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.20% 3.15% 4.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.85% 21.91% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 137 267
10th Percentile £286 £363 £300
25th Percentile £387 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £546 £586 £525
90th Percentile £622 £675 £609
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £37.63 - £19.02
25th Percentile £39.76 - £42.23
Median hourly rate £46.18 £41.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -34.66% +124.11%
75th Percentile - - £75.63
90th Percentile £47.47 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.13 £41.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -2.13% -17.17% +94.12%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 714 785 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.83% 14.39% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 559 884
10th Percentile £350 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £579 £620 £588
90th Percentile £638 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 49
10th Percentile £11.00 £28.55 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.39 £35.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £40.25 £40.30 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +29.98% +47.62%
75th Percentile £44.74 £58.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +72.48%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the North of England

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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 West -16 75 £463 -7.50% 119
Yorkshire -15 21 £463 -7.50% 61
North East +18 10 £475 -13.64% 34
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 9 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.60%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (6.60%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (5.66%) SAS
4 2 (1.89%) Apache
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.94%) nginx
5 1 (0.94%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (7.55%) CATIA
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (7.55%) DELMIA
1 8 (7.55%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.02%) Azure
2 25 (23.58%) Power Platform
3 12 (11.32%) AWS
4 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.55%) GitHub
5 8 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 7 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.66%) Collibra
7 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.72%) GCP
9 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.83%) SaaS
10 3 (2.83%) Serverless
11 2 (1.89%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) Firewall
2 5 (4.72%) DNS
3 3 (2.83%) DHCP
4 2 (1.89%) SAN
4 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) AMQP
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.94%) FTP
5 1 (0.94%) Internet
5 1 (0.94%) MQTT
5 1 (0.94%) NAS
5 1 (0.94%) Network Security
5 1 (0.94%) SSL
5 1 (0.94%) VLAN
5 1 (0.94%) VoIP
5 1 (0.94%) VPN
5 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.64%) Power BI
2 14 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (13.21%) Relational Database
3 13 (12.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (12.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (8.49%) Data Lake
5 8 (7.55%) Metadata
5 8 (7.55%) MySQL
5 8 (7.55%) PowerPivot
6 6 (5.66%) Ataccama
6 6 (5.66%) DB2
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Power View
6 6 (5.66%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (4.72%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.72%) GitLab
4 5 (4.72%) JIRA
4 5 (4.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.77%) AppScan
5 4 (3.77%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.94%) Maven
6 1 (0.94%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.94%) Selenium
6 1 (0.94%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.55%) Banking
4 6 (5.66%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (5.66%) Publishing
5 3 (2.83%) Legal
5 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.89%) Automotive
6 2 (1.89%) Local Government
6 2 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.94%) Law
7 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Developer
2 13 (12.26%) Analyst
2 13 (12.26%) Lead
3 12 (11.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 10 (9.43%) Data Analyst
5 8 (7.55%) Senior
5 8 (7.55%) Support Team Leader
6 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Team Leader
7 6 (5.66%) Architect
7 6 (5.66%) Data Quality Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) DBA
7 6 (5.66%) QA Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) Quality Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (5.66%) SharePoint Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) SQL Developer
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 5 (4.72%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) .NET
2 12 (11.32%) HTML
3 11 (10.38%) CSS
4 7 (6.60%) .NET Framework
4 7 (6.60%) Entity Framework
5 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.66%) React
6 4 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.77%) Kafka
6 4 (3.77%) Middleware
6 4 (3.77%) Web Services
7 2 (1.89%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.89%) Node.js
7 2 (1.89%) REST
7 2 (1.89%) RESTful
7 2 (1.89%) Spring
7 2 (1.89%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.89%) XML
8 1 (0.94%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.77%) Clustering
3 3 (2.83%) Data Fabric
3 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.83%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.89%) NHS
4 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.94%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.94%) IoT
5 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.94%) PKI
5 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.75%) Windows
2 13 (12.26%) Linux
3 12 (11.32%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.66%) zOS
5 4 (3.77%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.83%) Android
6 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.89%) Unix
7 2 (1.89%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (16.98%) Agile
2 18 (16.98%) DevOps
3 14 (13.21%) ETL
4 13 (12.26%) Configuration Management
5 12 (11.32%) Analytics
5 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (11.32%) ITIL
6 10 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (9.43%) Data Architecture
6 10 (9.43%) Data Management
6 10 (9.43%) Migration
6 10 (9.43%) Visualisation
7 9 (8.49%) Data Analysis
7 9 (8.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.55%) PLM
8 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (7.55%) Workflow
9 7 (6.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (66.98%) SQL
2 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.98%) C#
4 15 (14.15%) Python
5 10 (9.43%) Java
5 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.77%) Bash
6 4 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.83%) C
7 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.94%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.43%) Degree
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.60%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) MCSE
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.21%) QA
2 10 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) HL7
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.60%) Docker
3 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.94%) IAG
4 1 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.66%) Terraform
2 5 (4.72%) Ansible
2 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
2 5 (4.72%) Puppet
3 4 (3.77%) Grafana
3 4 (3.77%) Graylog
3 4 (3.77%) HP Fortify
3 4 (3.77%) Nessus
3 4 (3.77%) WebInspect
4 2 (1.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.94%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.43%) Oracle
3 9 (8.49%) VMware
4 8 (7.55%) Siemens
5 6 (5.66%) Alteryx
5 6 (5.66%) Dataiku
5 6 (5.66%) F5
5 6 (5.66%) SAP
5 6 (5.66%) Splunk
5 6 (5.66%) Trillium
6 5 (4.72%) Databricks
7 4 (3.77%) Checkmarx
7 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.77%) Veracode
8 3 (2.83%) IBM
9 2 (1.89%) AVEVA
9 2 (1.89%) Citrix
9 2 (1.89%) HP
9 2 (1.89%) Qualys
10 1 (0.94%) Meraki