SQL Server Contracts in Reading

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 71 71 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 -43 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 18 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.16% 1.67% 6.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.13% 10.40% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 76
10th Percentile £324 £403 £360
25th Percentile £400 £447 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £553 £563 £547
90th Percentile £600 £656 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £519 £485 £510
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.90% +13.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 184 173 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.26% 16.08% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 195
10th Percentile £347 £379 £350
25th Percentile £425 £453 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £595 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £62.78 £53.10 -
25th Percentile £64.55 £61.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +235.56% -48.28%
75th Percentile - £79.19 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £75.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.21% +235.56% -48.28%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Reading over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Jadu
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (19.23%) Azure API Management
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) FTP
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Zeppelin
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) AppScan
2 1 (3.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) French Language
3 1 (3.85%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Database Specialist
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Integration Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) DBA
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.69%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.85%) ETL Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) ETL Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.85%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) ARM Templates
3 4 (15.38%) SOAP
4 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 3 (11.54%) OpenID
4 3 (11.54%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) XML
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) LAMP
6 1 (3.85%) MDX
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) Symfony
6 1 (3.85%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Application Security
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (23.08%) OO
2 6 (23.08%) Security Testing
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) B2C
3 5 (19.23%) Break/Fix
3 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
3 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (15.38%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Revenue Assurance
5 3 (11.54%) SOLID
6 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 5 (19.23%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.85%) F#
6 1 (3.85%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) R
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
6 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CSSLP
4 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
2 2 (7.69%) Graylog
2 2 (7.69%) Nagios
2 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.85%) Nessus
3 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Informatica
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Veracode
21 SQL Server jobs in Berkshire