SQL Server Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 426 479
Rank change year-on-year +43 +53 -49
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 5 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.088% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.093% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 26
10th Percentile £425 £369 £363
25th Percentile £463 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £538
90th Percentile - £681 £599
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +18.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Midlands +30 2 - -
West Midlands +19 2 - -
South East - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £400 -14.89%
North of England +20 1 £400 -23.81% 1
SQL Server Developer
UK

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, SQL Server Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (40.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (40.00%) E-Discovery
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Apigee
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Apigee
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) E-Discovery
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL