SQL Server Contracts in the Home Counties

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Home Counties

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 8 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 50.00% 4.00% 5.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 80.00% 50.00% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £488 - £575
90th Percentile - - £583
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Home Counties

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 Home Counties with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5 2 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 62.50% 8.00% 44.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 36
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £463 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -30.77% -18.75%
75th Percentile £488 - £666
90th Percentile - - £800
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -5.37% +2.50% +11.11%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Home Counties

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the Home Counties

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Home Counties.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the Home Counties

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) F#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft