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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 64 28
Rank change year-on-year -12 -36 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 56 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.75% 2.99% 7.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.96% 18.79% 35.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 46 161
10th Percentile £394 £369 £350
25th Percentile £413 £414 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +9.78% +22.67%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £525
90th Percentile £750 £595 £588
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -7.50% +8.70% +20.66%
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 - £43.75
% change year-on-year - - +21.53%

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 261 298 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 17.53% 15.92% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 221 438
10th Percentile £363 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.01%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £694 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% -3.13% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £39.80 £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 £66.00 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £47.29 £23.70
% change year-on-year -10.12% +99.51% +0.98%

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 6 May 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 6 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
Bury - 1 £325 -
Oldham - 1 £450 - 1
Stockport - 1 £413 - 1
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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Matillion
6 1 (3.85%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) DHCP
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.85%) LAN
3 1 (3.85%) NAS
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Power BI
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.69%) Data Hub
4 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.69%) DB2
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.85%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Automotive
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
4 1 (3.85%) Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) HTML
2 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
3 3 (11.54%) Entity Framework
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
4 2 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) React
4 2 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.85%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (3.85%) LINQ
5 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Swagger
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.69%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) zOS
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) ETL
2 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (15.38%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Key Management
5 3 (11.54%) MVC
5 3 (11.54%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
6 2 (7.69%) Batch Processing
6 2 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 2 (7.69%) Data Encryption
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 2 (7.69%) Product Information Management
6 2 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) PHP
6 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) MCSA
1 1 (3.85%) MCSE
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
1 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) F5
3 3 (11.54%) Databricks
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Dell
4 2 (7.69%) HP
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Citrix
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) EMC
5 1 (3.85%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam