SQL Server Contracts in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 51 33
Rank change year-on-year -29 -18 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 61 130 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.20% 4.03% 6.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.06% 25.39% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 100 201
10th Percentile £285 £374 £325
25th Percentile £359 £418 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +20.66%
75th Percentile £546 £596 £525
90th Percentile £610 £675 £588
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £33.00
25th Percentile £37.63 - £43.13
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £41.75 £48.50
% change year-on-year -3.89% -13.92% +73.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 405 512 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.58% 15.86% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 375 554
10th Percentile £349 £334 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -1.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 37
10th Percentile £27.43 £35.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £40.34 £39.70 £16.23
Median hourly rate £43.62 £47.29 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +52.53% +32.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.13 £65.30 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the North West

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cheshire -13 21 £475 +5.56% 13
Manchester -23 21 £450 -10.89% 71
Merseyside +9 9 £290 -55.38% 13
Lancashire +8 6 - - 4
Cumbria - 1 £528 - 3
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
1 7 (11.48%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (11.48%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (9.84%) SAS
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) CATIA
2 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (13.11%) DELMIA
1 8 (13.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) Azure
1 16 (26.23%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.11%) Snowflake
3 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.84%) Collibra
3 6 (9.84%) Power Automate
4 5 (8.20%) AWS
5 4 (6.56%) GCP
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub
6 3 (4.92%) Serverless
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.64%) dbt
8 1 (1.64%) Matillion
8 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 4 (6.56%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) DHCP
3 2 (3.28%) SAN
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.64%) LAN
4 1 (1.64%) NAS
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.64%) WAN
4 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Power BI
2 13 (21.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (13.11%) Metadata
4 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.48%) PowerPivot
5 6 (9.84%) Ataccama
5 6 (9.84%) Data Lake
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Power View
5 6 (9.84%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (8.20%) Data Mining
6 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.28%) MySQL
8 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.64%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (8.20%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (9.84%) Publishing
4 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.28%) Automotive
5 2 (3.28%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Analyst
2 10 (16.39%) Lead
3 8 (13.11%) Data Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Support Team Leader
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Senior
4 7 (11.48%) Team Leader
5 6 (9.84%) Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) QA Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Quality Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Senior QA Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) HTML
2 10 (16.39%) CSS
3 8 (13.11%) .NET
4 6 (9.84%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.84%) Entity Framework
5 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.92%) Node.js
6 3 (4.92%) Web Services
7 2 (3.28%) Kafka
7 2 (3.28%) Middleware
7 2 (3.28%) React
7 2 (3.28%) REST
7 2 (3.28%) RESTful
8 1 (1.64%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (1.64%) jQuery
8 1 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.64%) LINQ
8 1 (1.64%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.64%) Swagger
8 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.28%) Clustering
1 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.64%) IoT
2 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.64%) NHS
2 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.56%) Linux
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.92%) zOS
5 2 (3.28%) Unix
5 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.28%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (13.11%) Agile
4 8 (13.11%) Configuration Management
4 8 (13.11%) Data Analysis
4 8 (13.11%) DevOps
4 8 (13.11%) ITIL
4 8 (13.11%) Migration
4 8 (13.11%) PLM
4 8 (13.11%) Visualisation
4 8 (13.11%) Workflow
5 7 (11.48%) Data Management
5 7 (11.48%) ETL
5 7 (11.48%) Metadata Management
5 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (9.84%) Data Governance
6 6 (9.84%) Information Architecture
6 6 (9.84%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 45 (73.77%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) PowerShell
3 11 (18.03%) Python
4 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (14.75%) C#
6 2 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.28%) Java
6 2 (3.28%) PHP
6 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.64%) MCSA
3 1 (1.64%) MCSE
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 7 (11.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) SCCM
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.75%) VMware
3 8 (13.11%) Siemens
4 6 (9.84%) Alteryx
4 6 (9.84%) Dataiku
4 6 (9.84%) SAP
4 6 (9.84%) Trillium
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle
6 3 (4.92%) F5
7 2 (3.28%) Citrix
7 2 (3.28%) Databricks
7 2 (3.28%) Dell
7 2 (3.28%) HP
7 2 (3.28%) IBM
8 1 (1.64%) Cisco
8 1 (1.64%) EMC
8 1 (1.64%) Qualys
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.64%) Temenos
8 1 (1.64%) Veeam