SQL Server Contracts in Kent

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 26 25 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 9 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.95% 4.19% 11.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.00% 52.94% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 29
10th Percentile - £575 £338
25th Percentile £525 £586 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £708 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +66.47% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £575
90th Percentile - - £623
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 - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 10 17 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 4.88% 7.91% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 41
10th Percentile £475 £290 £338
25th Percentile £500 £318 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +41.18% +22.30%
75th Percentile £675 £756 £575
90th Percentile £690 £788 £638
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £20.84 - -
25th Percentile £33.59 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) Blazor
1 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) SysML
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 12207