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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,230 2,298 3,661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.30% 4.51% 5.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.92% 25.00% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 1,745 2,805
10th Percentile £342 £363 £351
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +12.90%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 38
10th Percentile £26.95 £25.88 £20.75
25th Percentile £39.41 £34.35 £21.19
Median hourly rate £40.13 £41.75 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -13.92% +73.21%
75th Percentile £53.55 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.25 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £44.32 £46.67
% change year-on-year -9.74% -5.05% +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 6,174 9,191 14,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.59% 18.04% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,430 6,592 10,471
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 £653
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 164 173
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.93 £35.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%
75th Percentile £54.34 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.76 £69.81
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 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
London +3 822 £540 -6.09% 344
North of England -21 104 £463 -7.50% 189
South East -53 104 £463 -7.50% 155
Midlands -6 71 £482 +13.41% 154
South West -28 69 £550 +10.00% 80
North West -28 62 £463 -7.50% 98
West Midlands +3 45 £463 -11.06% 93
Yorkshire -4 32 £450 -8.86% 67
East of England -29 29 £475 +10.47% 73
East Midlands -6 23 £490 +22.38% 61
North East +24 10 £475 -5.00% 25
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 65 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.68%) IIS
3 31 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.71%) Apache
5 20 (1.63%) CMS
6 17 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 17 (1.38%) Confluence
7 11 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.81%) SAS
9 9 (0.73%) nginx
10 7 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
10 7 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.49%) JBoss
11 6 (0.49%) Tornado
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.24%) EPiServer
13 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) CATIA
5 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.081%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 18 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 18 (1.46%) Endur
2 15 (1.22%) Teamcenter
3 10 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.65%) DELMIA
5 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.33%) OPENHousing
7 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
9 1 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.081%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 566 (46.02%) Azure
2 236 (19.19%) Azure DevOps
3 184 (14.96%) Power Platform
4 147 (11.95%) AWS
5 88 (7.15%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (6.18%) Entra ID
7 71 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 71 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 65 (5.28%) GitHub
9 62 (5.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 62 (5.04%) Serverless
10 50 (4.07%) Azure Functions
11 48 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
12 47 (3.82%) Power Automate
13 46 (3.74%) PowerApps
14 39 (3.17%) PaaS
15 32 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
16 28 (2.28%) Snowflake
17 27 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (2.20%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.31%) Firewall
2 47 (3.82%) DNS
3 30 (2.44%) SAN
4 22 (1.79%) DHCP
5 19 (1.54%) WAN
6 18 (1.46%) Internet
7 17 (1.38%) LAN
8 15 (1.22%) FTP
9 14 (1.14%) NAS
10 11 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.73%) Wireless
12 8 (0.65%) MPLS
12 8 (0.65%) VPN
13 6 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.49%) Network Security
13 6 (0.49%) SSL
13 6 (0.49%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.41%) HTTP
15 4 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
16 3 (0.24%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (13.09%) Power BI
2 157 (12.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 133 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (9.19%) Relational Database
5 106 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
5 106 (8.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 94 (7.64%) MySQL
7 64 (5.20%) Oracle Database
8 61 (4.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 55 (4.47%) NoSQL
10 51 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (3.82%) Data Lake
12 38 (3.09%) Tableau
13 37 (3.01%) Metadata
14 33 (2.68%) RDBMS
15 31 (2.52%) MongoDB
15 31 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
16 30 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 22 (1.79%) Big Data
18 15 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 139 (11.30%) Git
2 80 (6.50%) JIRA
3 56 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 45 (3.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 39 (3.17%) Jenkins
6 35 (2.85%) SpecFlow
7 33 (2.68%) TeamCity
8 32 (2.60%) Selenium
9 26 (2.11%) GitLab
10 18 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
11 17 (1.38%) Postman
12 16 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 13 (1.06%) Maven
14 13 (1.06%) NUnit
14 13 (1.06%) WebDriver
15 12 (0.98%) SoapUI
16 11 (0.89%) ERwin
16 11 (0.89%) JMeter
16 11 (0.89%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 265 (21.54%) Finance
2 252 (20.49%) Social Skills
3 132 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (9.67%) Banking
5 114 (9.27%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.58%) Back Office
7 32 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.28%) Front Office
8 28 (2.28%) Investment Banking
9 25 (2.03%) Marketing
9 25 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.63%) Retail
12 18 (1.46%) Electronics
13 15 (1.22%) Local Government
14 14 (1.14%) Publishing
15 9 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.73%) Legal
16 8 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (40.65%) Developer
2 173 (14.07%) Senior
3 129 (10.49%) C# Developer
4 121 (9.84%) .NET Developer
5 111 (9.02%) Senior Developer
6 90 (7.32%) Analyst
7 83 (6.75%) Architect
8 78 (6.34%) Data Engineer
9 61 (4.96%) DBA
9 61 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (4.96%) Software Developer
10 60 (4.88%) SQL Developer
11 56 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
11 56 (4.55%) Lead
12 48 (3.90%) Azure Developer
13 43 (3.50%) Full Stack Developer
14 42 (3.41%) Senior Software Developer
15 41 (3.33%) SQL DBA
16 40 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (3.17%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (30.73%) .NET
2 137 (11.14%) XML
3 134 (10.89%) .NET Framework
4 128 (10.41%) .NET Core
5 103 (8.37%) AngularJS
6 102 (8.29%) HTML
7 79 (6.42%) ASP.NET
8 73 (5.93%) CSS
9 60 (4.88%) REST
10 57 (4.63%) Web Services
11 56 (4.55%) React
12 47 (3.82%) JSON
13 45 (3.66%) Entity Framework
14 43 (3.50%) Kafka
14 43 (3.50%) SOAP
15 34 (2.76%) jQuery
16 32 (2.60%) ASP.NET MVC
16 32 (2.60%) RESTful
17 30 (2.44%) ARM Templates
17 30 (2.44%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.31%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.74%) Onboarding
2 46 (3.74%) Replication
3 38 (3.09%) Clustering
4 23 (1.87%) Client/Server
4 23 (1.87%) Cloud Native
4 23 (1.87%) Public Cloud
5 22 (1.79%) Derivative
5 22 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (1.71%) Hedge funds
6 21 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.38%) PKI
9 16 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.06%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (0.89%) Contactless
11 11 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 11 (0.89%) NHS
11 11 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 218 (17.72%) Windows
2 119 (9.67%) Windows Server
3 106 (8.62%) Linux
4 52 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (3.98%) Unix
6 46 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (2.36%) Windows 10
9 22 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.89%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.65%) Android
13 8 (0.65%) VMS
14 6 (0.49%) CentOS
15 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.41%) zOS
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (32.52%) Agile
2 355 (28.86%) DevOps
3 205 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 188 (15.28%) Migration
5 175 (14.23%) Scrum
6 167 (13.58%) CI/CD
7 157 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (12.52%) ETL
9 131 (10.65%) Data Modelling
10 124 (10.08%) TDD
11 94 (7.64%) OO
12 86 (6.99%) Data Analysis
13 82 (6.67%) MVC
14 81 (6.59%) SDLC
14 81 (6.59%) Software Engineering
15 80 (6.50%) Analytics
16 74 (6.02%) Disaster Recovery
17 70 (5.69%) Data Migration
17 70 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 65 (5.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 662 (53.82%) SQL
2 461 (37.48%) C#
3 221 (17.97%) PowerShell
4 149 (12.11%) JavaScript
5 139 (11.30%) T-SQL
6 135 (10.98%) Python
7 107 (8.70%) Java
8 87 (7.07%) PL/SQL
9 78 (6.34%) Bicep
10 40 (3.25%) TypeScript
11 35 (2.85%) VBA
12 29 (2.36%) VB.NET
13 27 (2.20%) VB
14 25 (2.03%) Bash
15 16 (1.30%) C
15 16 (1.30%) Shell Script
16 15 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (1.06%) C++
17 13 (1.06%) PHP
18 11 (0.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 165 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 122 (9.92%) Degree
3 89 (7.24%) SC Cleared
4 65 (5.28%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.73%) MCSE
10 6 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.41%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.33%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) MCITP
13 3 (0.24%) MCTS
14 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.16%) RHCE
14 2 (0.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.13%) QA
2 56 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 31 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.95%) WCAG
5 13 (1.06%) GDPR
5 13 (1.06%) SLA
6 12 (0.98%) MiFID
7 6 (0.49%) EMIR
8 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
9 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.16%) IFRS
10 2 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.16%) NIST
10 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 229 (18.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.66%) Docker
3 44 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.87%) IAG
6 20 (1.63%) ACF2
6 20 (1.63%) RACF
7 13 (1.06%) vSphere
8 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.081%) KVM
13 1 (0.081%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.081%) vCloud
13 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.98%) Terraform
3 43 (3.50%) Ansible
4 40 (3.25%) SCCM
5 29 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
7 18 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.38%) Puppet
9 15 (1.22%) Grafana
10 13 (1.06%) Nagios
10 13 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.06%) Prometheus
11 12 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.81%) Nessus
13 9 (0.73%) Data Guard
13 9 (0.73%) Graylog
14 8 (0.65%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.49%) WSUS
17 5 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 466 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 286 (23.25%) Oracle
3 69 (5.61%) VMware
4 50 (4.07%) Databricks
5 49 (3.98%) SAP
6 42 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 37 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 34 (2.76%) Citrix
9 32 (2.60%) Informatica
9 32 (2.60%) Sybase
9 32 (2.60%) Veeam
10 20 (1.63%) Sparx
11 17 (1.38%) Splunk
12 16 (1.30%) IBM
13 15 (1.22%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.14%) Cisco
15 13 (1.06%) CA
15 13 (1.06%) OpenLink
16 12 (0.98%) HP
17 11 (0.89%) Qualys