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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 44 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 -12 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 63 135 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.29% 4.17% 6.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.29% 25.76% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 103 206
10th Percentile £285 £363 £325
25th Percentile £363 £416 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +22.67%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £525
90th Percentile £610 £675 £587
England median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +13.51%
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 £40.00 £40.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +55.57%

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 412 524 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 16.17% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 382 570
10th Percentile £350 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -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 21 19 37
10th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £41.25 £39.80 £16.23
Median hourly rate £44.74 £49.57 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +59.90% +32.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.20 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £41.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +41.18% +66.00%

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 18 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 18 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
Manchester -21 24 £450 -10.89% 60
Cheshire -17 21 £475 +1.63% 18
Merseyside +7 8 £290 -55.38% 13
Lancashire +11 6 - - 8
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 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 7 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (9.52%) SAS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (12.70%) CATIA
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (12.70%) DELMIA
1 8 (12.70%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 16 (25.40%) Power Platform
3 8 (12.70%) Snowflake
4 6 (9.52%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.52%) Collibra
4 6 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (6.35%) GCP
5 4 (6.35%) GitHub
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.76%) Serverless
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.59%) dbt
8 1 (1.59%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) DHCP
3 2 (3.17%) SAN
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.59%) DMZ
4 1 (1.59%) LAN
4 1 (1.59%) NAS
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) WAN
4 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) Power BI
2 14 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (12.70%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.70%) Metadata
4 7 (11.11%) PowerPivot
5 6 (9.52%) Ataccama
5 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Power View
5 6 (9.52%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (7.94%) Data Mining
7 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
8 3 (4.76%) MySQL
9 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (7.94%) Git
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
4 1 (1.59%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (9.52%) Publishing
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Automotive
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Lead
3 10 (15.87%) Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Data Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Senior
4 8 (12.70%) Support Team Leader
5 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Team Leader
6 6 (9.52%) Data Quality Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) QA Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Quality Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (9.52%) SharePoint Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Senior QA Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) HTML
2 10 (15.87%) CSS
3 8 (12.70%) .NET
4 6 (9.52%) .NET Framework
4 6 (9.52%) Entity Framework
5 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.76%) Node.js
6 3 (4.76%) Web Services
7 2 (3.17%) Kafka
7 2 (3.17%) Middleware
7 2 (3.17%) React
7 2 (3.17%) REST
7 2 (3.17%) RESTful
8 1 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.59%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.59%) Play Framework
8 1 (1.59%) PySpark
8 1 (1.59%) SOAP
8 1 (1.59%) Swagger
8 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.17%) Clustering
1 2 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
1 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.59%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.59%) IoT
2 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.59%) NHS
2 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.05%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.35%) Linux
3 4 (6.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (4.76%) zOS
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
5 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.17%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.40%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (14.29%) DevOps
4 8 (12.70%) Agile
4 8 (12.70%) Data Analysis
4 8 (12.70%) Data Management
4 8 (12.70%) ETL
4 8 (12.70%) ITIL
4 8 (12.70%) Migration
4 8 (12.70%) PLM
4 8 (12.70%) Visualisation
4 8 (12.70%) Workflow
5 7 (11.11%) Metadata Management
5 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (9.52%) Data Architecture
6 6 (9.52%) Data Governance
6 6 (9.52%) Information Architecture
6 6 (9.52%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (73.02%) SQL
2 13 (20.63%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.63%) Python
3 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.29%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Java
5 3 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.17%) PHP
6 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) C
7 1 (1.59%) Julia
7 1 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) MCSA
3 1 (1.59%) MCSE
3 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) QA
2 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.59%) Docker
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (39.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) VMware
3 8 (12.70%) Siemens
4 6 (9.52%) Alteryx
4 6 (9.52%) Dataiku
4 6 (9.52%) SAP
4 6 (9.52%) Trillium
5 4 (6.35%) Oracle
6 3 (4.76%) Databricks
6 3 (4.76%) F5
7 2 (3.17%) Citrix
7 2 (3.17%) Dell
7 2 (3.17%) HP
7 2 (3.17%) IBM
8 1 (1.59%) Cisco
8 1 (1.59%) EMC
8 1 (1.59%) Qualys
8 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.59%) Temenos
8 1 (1.59%) Veeam