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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 49 48
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,226 2,167 3,572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.35% 4.41% 5.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.85% 24.64% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,658 2,729
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 37
10th Percentile £36.84 £25.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £33.70 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.13 £43.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -12.12% +76.79%
75th Percentile £50.47 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.50 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.58% +66.68%

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 6,176 8,796 14,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.88% 17.91% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,448 6,319 10,205
10th Percentile £350 £370 £369
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 £658
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 167 166
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £21.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +33.98% +71.67%
75th Percentile £58.48 £73.11 £62.15
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +2 819 £535 -6.96% 393
North of England -18 107 £463 -7.50% 196
South East -50 101 £469 -6.25% 164
Midlands -5 77 £456 +5.80% 191
South West -25 71 £550 +4.76% 97
North West -14 69 £463 -7.50% 110
West Midlands -7 43 £475 -8.65% 114
East Midlands +3 31 £445 +11.25% 77
Yorkshire 0 28 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -43 23 £475 +5.56% 68
North East +17 10 £475 -5.00% 21
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 64 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.61%) IIS
3 30 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.63%) CMS
5 19 (1.55%) Apache
5 19 (1.55%) Confluence
6 14 (1.14%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.73%) nginx
8 8 (0.65%) SAS
8 8 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
9 7 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (0.49%) JBoss
10 6 (0.49%) Tornado
11 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.24%) WordPress
12 2 (0.16%) Jadu
Applications
1 66 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.082%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.082%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 17 (1.39%) Endur
2 15 (1.22%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.65%) DELMIA
5 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.33%) OPENHousing
7 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.082%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.082%) Epicor Tropos
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 583 (47.55%) Azure
2 265 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 202 (16.48%) Power Platform
4 148 (12.07%) AWS
5 87 (7.10%) Entra ID
6 82 (6.69%) Microsoft 365
7 77 (6.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 76 (6.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 74 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 59 (4.81%) Serverless
11 56 (4.57%) GitHub
12 53 (4.32%) PowerApps
13 51 (4.16%) Azure Functions
13 51 (4.16%) Power Automate
14 49 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
15 39 (3.18%) PaaS
16 33 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 27 (2.20%) Snowflake
18 26 (2.12%) Azure Key Vault
18 26 (2.12%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.08%) Firewall
2 39 (3.18%) DNS
3 29 (2.37%) SAN
4 20 (1.63%) DHCP
5 18 (1.47%) WAN
6 17 (1.39%) Internet
7 16 (1.31%) LAN
8 15 (1.22%) FTP
8 15 (1.22%) NAS
9 11 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.73%) Wireless
11 8 (0.65%) MPLS
12 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.57%) VPN
13 6 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.49%) SSL
14 5 (0.41%) Network Security
15 4 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
15 4 (0.33%) HTTP
16 3 (0.24%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (14.60%) Power BI
2 139 (11.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 131 (10.69%) Data Warehouse
4 118 (9.62%) Relational Database
5 92 (7.50%) MySQL
6 91 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
7 90 (7.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 57 (4.65%) NoSQL
8 57 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 52 (4.24%) Oracle Database
10 51 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 44 (3.59%) Metadata
12 40 (3.26%) Data Lake
13 35 (2.85%) RDBMS
14 32 (2.61%) MongoDB
15 29 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 29 (2.37%) Tableau
16 26 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
17 23 (1.88%) Big Data
18 17 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 134 (10.93%) Git
2 69 (5.63%) JIRA
3 53 (4.32%) Visual Studio
4 45 (3.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.26%) SpecFlow
6 31 (2.53%) Selenium
7 27 (2.20%) Jenkins
7 27 (2.20%) TeamCity
8 25 (2.04%) GitLab
9 16 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
10 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.14%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.98%) JMeter
14 10 (0.82%) ERwin
14 10 (0.82%) NUnit
15 9 (0.73%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.73%) Postman
15 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Team System
16 8 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 271 (22.10%) Finance
2 256 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 135 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (9.87%) Banking
5 116 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 49 (4.00%) Back Office
7 32 (2.61%) Front Office
8 31 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 30 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.12%) Marketing
11 25 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.55%) Local Government
15 18 (1.47%) Retail
16 17 (1.39%) Electronics
17 14 (1.14%) Publishing
18 10 (0.82%) Legal
19 9 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
20 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 496 (40.46%) Developer
2 195 (15.91%) Senior
3 133 (10.85%) Senior Developer
4 124 (10.11%) C# Developer
5 113 (9.22%) .NET Developer
6 87 (7.10%) Architect
7 84 (6.85%) Data Engineer
8 83 (6.77%) Analyst
9 65 (5.30%) Software Developer
10 64 (5.22%) DBA
11 59 (4.81%) Lead
12 57 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (4.57%) Azure Developer
14 53 (4.32%) SQL Developer
15 48 (3.92%) Senior Software Developer
16 46 (3.75%) SQL DBA
17 45 (3.67%) C# .NET Developer
18 43 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
19 42 (3.43%) Backend Developer
20 40 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (32.38%) .NET
2 153 (12.48%) XML
3 140 (11.42%) .NET Core
4 131 (10.69%) .NET Framework
5 114 (9.30%) HTML
6 99 (8.08%) ASP.NET
7 97 (7.91%) AngularJS
8 86 (7.01%) CSS
9 79 (6.44%) React
10 57 (4.65%) Web Services
11 56 (4.57%) REST
12 44 (3.59%) JSON
13 41 (3.34%) Entity Framework
14 40 (3.26%) Kafka
15 37 (3.02%) SOAP
16 36 (2.94%) RESTful
17 34 (2.77%) WCF
18 33 (2.69%) jQuery
19 31 (2.53%) ASP.NET MVC
20 30 (2.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 62 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.51%) Replication
4 39 (3.18%) Clustering
5 28 (2.28%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.96%) Cloud Native
7 21 (1.71%) Client/Server
7 21 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.71%) Hedge funds
7 21 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.55%) Derivative
9 17 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.31%) PKI
11 14 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 12 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
14 11 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 229 (18.68%) Windows
2 117 (9.54%) Windows Server
3 111 (9.05%) Linux
4 53 (4.32%) Unix
5 47 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (1.96%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.90%) Android
10 11 (0.90%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.65%) VMS
11 8 (0.65%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.57%) zOS
13 5 (0.41%) CentOS
13 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (33.20%) Agile
2 373 (30.42%) DevOps
3 213 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
4 187 (15.25%) CI/CD
5 183 (14.93%) Scrum
6 179 (14.60%) Migration
7 162 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
8 157 (12.81%) ETL
9 134 (10.93%) Data Modelling
10 119 (9.71%) TDD
11 95 (7.75%) OO
12 81 (6.61%) Software Engineering
13 79 (6.44%) SDLC
14 78 (6.36%) MVC
15 75 (6.12%) Data Analysis
16 74 (6.04%) Analytics
17 72 (5.87%) Disaster Recovery
18 70 (5.71%) Data Migration
19 69 (5.63%) B2C
20 65 (5.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 640 (52.20%) SQL
2 475 (38.74%) C#
3 246 (20.07%) PowerShell
4 152 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 136 (11.09%) Python
6 129 (10.52%) T-SQL
7 111 (9.05%) Java
8 98 (7.99%) Bicep
9 76 (6.20%) PL/SQL
10 54 (4.40%) TypeScript
11 30 (2.45%) VBA
12 26 (2.12%) Bash
13 21 (1.71%) C
13 21 (1.71%) VB
13 21 (1.71%) VB.NET
14 19 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 18 (1.47%) Shell Script
16 14 (1.14%) C++
16 14 (1.14%) PHP
17 10 (0.82%) XPath
Qualifications
1 168 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 124 (10.11%) Degree
3 97 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 40 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.82%) MCSE
9 8 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.65%) MCITP
9 8 (0.65%) MCTS
10 6 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.41%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) ISEB
13 2 (0.16%) CCNP
13 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.99%) QA
2 52 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 23 (1.88%) WCAG
5 14 (1.14%) GDPR
6 13 (1.06%) SLA
7 11 (0.90%) MiFID
8 5 (0.41%) EMIR
9 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.24%) IFRS
10 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 3 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 245 (19.98%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (3.43%) Docker
4 21 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.55%) IAG
6 17 (1.39%) ACF2
6 17 (1.39%) RACF
7 12 (0.98%) vSphere
8 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
10 7 (0.57%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.082%) KVM
14 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.082%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.082%) vCloud
14 1 (0.082%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.32%) Terraform
3 45 (3.67%) Ansible
4 37 (3.02%) SCCM
5 28 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 18 (1.47%) Puppet
9 15 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.14%) Grafana
11 13 (1.06%) Nagios
11 13 (1.06%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.82%) Nessus
14 9 (0.73%) Graylog
14 9 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.65%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.65%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 480 (39.15%) Microsoft
2 269 (21.94%) Oracle
3 68 (5.55%) VMware
4 49 (4.00%) SAP
5 48 (3.92%) Databricks
6 39 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.45%) Sybase
8 30 (2.45%) Veeam
9 29 (2.37%) Informatica
10 26 (2.12%) Citrix
11 18 (1.47%) Sparx
11 18 (1.47%) Splunk
12 16 (1.31%) Cisco
13 13 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 13 (1.06%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.98%) CA
14 12 (0.98%) IBM
15 11 (0.90%) HP
15 11 (0.90%) OpenLink