SQL Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 58 56
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 69 140 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.16% 3.80% 4.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.63% 28.34% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 92 100
10th Percentile £400 £389 £311
25th Percentile £513 £434 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +15.28% +9.09%
75th Percentile £673 £575 £548
90th Percentile £717 £623 £625
England median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile - £22.75 £54.00
25th Percentile - £25.00 £61.20
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.15 £66.33
Median % change year-on-year +28.42% -53.04% +56.06%
75th Percentile - £39.14 £69.05
90th Percentile - £42.66 -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £38.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year +5.59% -18.58% +55.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 319 494 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.00% 13.40% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 358 451
10th Percentile £346 £363 £341
25th Percentile £425 £438 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £589
90th Percentile £722 £707 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 21
10th Percentile £14.73 £19.38 £48.74
25th Percentile £21.92 £38.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +61.77%
75th Percentile - £73.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £39.73
% change year-on-year -29.08% +41.96% +58.92%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South West over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Bristol -5 19 £650 +30.00% 28
Wiltshire +4 15 £466 -6.75% 10
Somerset -3 8 - - 8
Gloucestershire -15 7 £450 -18.18% 7
Devon -5 1 - - 12
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.90%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.93%) Azure
2 22 (31.88%) Power Platform
3 13 (18.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (15.94%) AWS
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.35%) Sumo Logic
8 2 (2.90%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.90%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.90%) Serverless
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.45%) IaaS
9 1 (1.45%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) DHCP
1 8 (11.59%) DNS
1 8 (11.59%) LAN
1 8 (11.59%) MPLS
1 8 (11.59%) SAN
1 8 (11.59%) WAN
1 8 (11.59%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.90%) FTP
3 1 (1.45%) Internet
3 1 (1.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (31.88%) Power BI
2 17 (24.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (20.29%) Relational Database
4 12 (17.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 12 (17.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (17.39%) Tableau
5 9 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.80%) Biml
7 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.35%) Metadata
8 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.90%) MySQL
10 1 (1.45%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.45%) Big Data
10 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.35%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.45%) ERwin
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) GoCD
5 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.59%) Aerospace
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) German Language
5 4 (5.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Electronics
7 2 (2.90%) Finance
7 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Architect
2 14 (20.29%) Data Engineer
2 14 (20.29%) Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) IT Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) Senior
5 6 (8.70%) Database Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Lead
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Database Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Systems Architect
6 5 (7.25%) SharePoint Architect
7 4 (5.80%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Oracle Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Report Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.35%) SSIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) .NET
2 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (4.35%) MassTransit
3 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.90%) CSS
4 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.90%) HTML
4 2 (2.90%) jQuery
4 2 (2.90%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (2.90%) PySpark
5 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.45%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.45%) Blazor
5 1 (1.45%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.45%) React
5 1 (1.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Blog
1 8 (11.59%) Client/Server
1 8 (11.59%) Clustering
1 8 (11.59%) Data Centre
1 8 (11.59%) Onboarding
1 8 (11.59%) Replication
2 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.74%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Unix
3 6 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.78%) Migration
2 23 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (33.33%) DevOps
3 19 (27.54%) Data Modelling
4 18 (26.09%) ETL
5 16 (23.19%) Agile
5 16 (23.19%) Data Migration
5 16 (23.19%) Data Protection
6 13 (18.84%) Performance Optimisation
6 13 (18.84%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (13.04%) Server Management
8 8 (11.59%) Application Packaging
8 8 (11.59%) Asset Management
8 8 (11.59%) Business Transformation
8 8 (11.59%) Capacity Management
8 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
8 8 (11.59%) Network Management
8 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.59%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) SQL
2 17 (24.64%) C#
3 12 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 12 (17.39%) T-SQL
4 7 (10.14%) PL/SQL
5 6 (8.70%) C
6 5 (7.25%) Python
7 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.45%) Bash
9 1 (1.45%) C++
9 1 (1.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 45 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 34 (49.28%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.74%) Degree
4 13 (18.84%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.80%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) QA
System Software
1 23 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.59%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (11.59%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.45%) NFS
5 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Terraform
2 8 (11.59%) Ansible
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (11.59%) Nagios
2 8 (11.59%) NetBackup
2 8 (11.59%) SCCM
3 2 (2.90%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.45%) Kibana
4 1 (1.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.94%) VMware
3 10 (14.49%) Oracle
4 9 (13.04%) SAP
5 8 (11.59%) Hitachi
5 8 (11.59%) NetApp
6 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.90%) Databricks
7 1 (1.45%) Citrix
7 1 (1.45%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.45%) Dell
7 1 (1.45%) HP
7 1 (1.45%) IBM