SQL Server Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 69 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -32 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 37 43 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.85% 2.36% 5.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.40% 15.09% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 101
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £400 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £485 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -4.90% +13.33%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -7.50% +3.90% +13.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.44 - -
25th Percentile £56.87 - -
Median hourly rate £58.16 - -
75th Percentile £58.87 - -
90th Percentile £58.95 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +35.41% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 257 285 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.87% 15.67% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 185 295
10th Percentile £313 £340 £336
25th Percentile £412 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £647
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile £19.00 £46.90 -
25th Percentile £38.32 £53.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £75.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.21% +235.56% -48.28%
75th Percentile £64.55 £79.19 £23.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £84.35 -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £58.05 £39.21
% change year-on-year +1.48% +48.05% +21.57%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Berkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Reading -8 24 £500 - 6
Bracknell -6 7 £450 - 9
Newbury -3 1 £525 +228.13% 2
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Jadu
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) Azure API Management
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Functions
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.41%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 6 (16.22%) DHCP
2 6 (16.22%) Firewall
3 4 (10.81%) FTP
3 4 (10.81%) NAS
3 4 (10.81%) SAN
4 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.41%) VPN
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.70%) LAN
5 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (18.92%) MySQL
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database
4 4 (10.81%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.41%) Power BI
6 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.70%) Apache Zeppelin
7 1 (2.70%) Big Data
7 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Electronics
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) French Language
4 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Database Specialist
2 8 (21.62%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) DBA
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Developer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Site Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) ETL Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.81%) SOAP
4 3 (8.11%) JSON
4 3 (8.11%) OAuth
4 3 (8.11%) OpenID
4 3 (8.11%) REST
4 3 (8.11%) XML
5 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.41%) CSS
5 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.70%) Kafka
6 1 (2.70%) LAMP
6 1 (2.70%) MDX
6 1 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) Symfony
6 1 (2.70%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) PKI
2 6 (16.22%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (10.81%) Fat Client
3 4 (10.81%) Thin Client
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.92%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.81%) Unix
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Migration
1 8 (21.62%) OO
2 7 (18.92%) Data Protection
3 6 (16.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) Scrum
4 5 (13.51%) Application Security
4 5 (13.51%) B2C
4 5 (13.51%) Break/Fix
4 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (13.51%) ETL
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
4 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.51%) Security Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
5 4 (10.81%) Capacity Management
5 4 (10.81%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) C#
4 3 (8.11%) F#
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) PHP
5 1 (2.70%) R
5 1 (2.70%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) DV Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.81%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.81%) Nessus
2 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.81%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.81%) WSUS
2 4 (10.81%) ZABBIX
3 3 (8.11%) Terraform
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Graylog
4 2 (5.41%) Nagios
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Oracle
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.51%) VMware
4 4 (10.81%) Informatica
4 4 (10.81%) Veeam
5 2 (5.41%) Citrix
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks
6 1 (2.70%) Meraki
6 1 (2.70%) SAP