SQL Server Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 56 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 -32 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 24 64 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.57% 3.37% 7.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.23% 21.12% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 52 168
10th Percentile £390 £379 £350
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +9.78% +18.71%
75th Percentile £527 £563 £525
90th Percentile £620 £623 £586
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +18.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £46.18 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 260 303 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.96% 15.97% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 227 440
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £492 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 11
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.92 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £40.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +348.28% -21.56%
75th Percentile £74.63 - £31.25
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.80 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £47.29 £31.00
% change year-on-year -10.12% +52.53% +32.08%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Oldham - 1 £450 - 1
Stockport - 1 £413 - 1
Bury - 1 £325 -
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) Matillion
6 1 (4.17%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) DHCP
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) NAS
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) DB2
4 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) PowerPivot
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Maven
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) DBA
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) CSS
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 3 (12.50%) Node.js
3 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.17%) jQuery
5 1 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) LINQ
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Clustering
1 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) IoT
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) zOS
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile
1 6 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (20.83%) ETL
3 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.50%) MVC
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
4 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.33%) B2B
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.33%) ERP
5 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 2 (8.33%) Key Management
5 2 (8.33%) Product Information Management
5 2 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) C#
3 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (8.33%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) MCSA
1 1 (4.17%) MCSE
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
1 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) F5
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) EMC
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Meraki
4 1 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam