SQL Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 49 38
Rank change year-on-year -40 -11 +19
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 53 112 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.92% 3.76% 4.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.32% 25.00% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 89 147
10th Percentile £356 £354 £174
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £625 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.44 - -
25th Percentile £56.87 - -
Median hourly rate £58.16 - -
75th Percentile £58.87 - -
90th Percentile £58.95 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +35.41% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 346 448 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.55% 15.04% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 303 420
10th Percentile £315 £340 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.05%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £679 £638
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 3
10th Percentile £19.59 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £59.00 £55.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +266.67% -65.52%
75th Percentile £62.05 £79.19 £19.38
90th Percentile £67.50 - £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year +2.44% +46.66% +53.75%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire -9 40 £513 +5.67% 21
Buckinghamshire -12 11 £425 -11.46% 15
Oxfordshire -2 2 £525 +21.74% 14
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.77%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.89%) Jadu
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (11.32%) Azure API Management
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Functions
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (11.32%) Serverless
5 5 (9.43%) AWS
5 5 (9.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) DNS
1 8 (15.09%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) DHCP
3 6 (11.32%) SAN
4 4 (7.55%) FTP
4 4 (7.55%) NAS
5 3 (5.66%) WAN
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.77%) VPN
6 2 (3.77%) Wireless
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.89%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) MySQL
2 9 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (16.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (15.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.55%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (7.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.55%) Power BI
5 4 (7.55%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.66%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.66%) Tableau
7 2 (3.77%) Impala
7 2 (3.77%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Visual Studio
2 6 (11.32%) JIRA
3 3 (5.66%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.89%) AppScan
4 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.89%) GitLab
4 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.89%) Postman
4 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Back Office
6 1 (1.89%) Electronics
6 1 (1.89%) French Language
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Database Specialist
3 5 (9.43%) Architect
3 5 (9.43%) Azure Developer
3 5 (9.43%) Consultant
3 5 (9.43%) DBA
4 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) C# Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Integration Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Site Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) SQL Developer
5 3 (5.66%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) .NET
2 5 (9.43%) ARM Templates
3 4 (7.55%) .NET Framework
3 4 (7.55%) SOAP
3 4 (7.55%) XML
4 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.66%) HTML
4 3 (5.66%) JSON
4 3 (5.66%) OAuth
4 3 (5.66%) OpenID
4 3 (5.66%) REST
5 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.77%) CSS
5 2 (3.77%) EDI
5 2 (3.77%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.77%) NHibernate
5 2 (3.77%) React
5 2 (3.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) PKI
2 7 (13.21%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.55%) Fat Client
3 4 (7.55%) Thin Client
4 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) CCTV
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Windows
2 10 (18.87%) Linux
3 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.32%) Ubuntu
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.43%) Unix
6 2 (3.77%) Android
6 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.87%) Agile
2 9 (16.98%) DevOps
2 9 (16.98%) OO
3 8 (15.09%) Data Protection
3 8 (15.09%) Migration
3 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
4 7 (13.21%) Scrum
5 6 (11.32%) Application Security
5 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
5 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
5 6 (11.32%) Security Testing
5 6 (11.32%) SOLID
6 5 (9.43%) Break/Fix
6 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis
6 5 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.43%) TDD
6 5 (9.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) C#
3 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) F#
6 2 (3.77%) Bash
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.89%) PHP
7 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.89%) Python
7 1 (1.89%) R
7 1 (1.89%) Scala
7 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Ansible
2 5 (9.43%) Nessus
3 4 (7.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (7.55%) Terraform
3 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
3 4 (7.55%) WSUS
3 4 (7.55%) ZABBIX
4 3 (5.66%) Grafana
4 3 (5.66%) Graylog
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.66%) Nagios
4 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.77%) PaperCut
5 2 (3.77%) SCCM
6 1 (1.89%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Oracle
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.21%) Red Hat
3 7 (13.21%) VMware
4 6 (11.32%) Veeam
5 4 (7.55%) Informatica
6 3 (5.66%) Cisco
6 3 (5.66%) Citrix
6 3 (5.66%) Splunk
7 2 (3.77%) Aruba
7 2 (3.77%) HP
7 2 (3.77%) Nimble Storage
7 2 (3.77%) Sage
7 2 (3.77%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.89%) Databricks
8 1 (1.89%) Facebook
8 1 (1.89%) Meraki
8 1 (1.89%) SAP
8 1 (1.89%) Twitter
8 1 (1.89%) Veracode