SQL Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 57 42
Rank change year-on-year -42 -15 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 437 943 1,572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 3.95% 5.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.91% 25.65% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 703 1,181
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £394 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +8.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 33
10th Percentile £26.95 £22.88 -
25th Percentile £39.41 £26.42 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.13 £35.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.03% -25.26% +82.69%
75th Percentile £53.55 £46.13 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.96 £67.95 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £45.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -10.83% -3.58% +66.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,584 3,676 5,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.57% 15.38% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,646 3,885
10th Percentile £324 £339 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £676 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 115 134
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £32.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +44.33%
75th Percentile £59.00 £66.28 £55.81
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.50 £68.96
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England -12 107 £450 -10.00% 189
South East -50 101 £463 -7.50% 144
Midlands -4 77 £450 +5.88% 178
South West -20 71 £550 +10.00% 97
North West -19 68 £450 -10.00% 102
Scotland -6 52 £550 +15.79% 45
West Midlands -6 43 £450 -12.20% 105
East Midlands +3 31 £445 +11.25% 72
Yorkshire -6 29 £450 -10.00% 65
East of England -40 24 £475 +5.56% 63
Wales -3 11 £500 -4.76% 17
North East +21 10 £475 -5.00% 23
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 12
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 33 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.20%) Confluence
4 9 (2.06%) IIS
5 7 (1.60%) SAS
5 7 (1.60%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.60%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.14%) Apache
8 4 (0.92%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.46%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) Jadu
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.83%) CATIA
2 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (3.43%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.83%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 163 (37.30%) Azure
2 74 (16.93%) Power Platform
3 61 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.53%) AWS
5 37 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (7.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.12%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.89%) Serverless
9 15 (3.43%) Azure Functions
10 14 (3.20%) PowerApps
11 12 (2.75%) GitHub
11 12 (2.75%) PaaS
12 11 (2.52%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.06%) GCP
15 8 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.60%) Collibra
16 7 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.41%) SAN
2 27 (6.18%) Firewall
3 25 (5.72%) DNS
4 20 (4.58%) WAN
5 19 (4.35%) DHCP
5 19 (4.35%) LAN
6 11 (2.52%) NAS
6 11 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.83%) MPLS
8 7 (1.60%) VPN
9 6 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (1.37%) Wireless
10 5 (1.14%) FTP
10 5 (1.14%) Network Security
10 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.69%) BGP
11 3 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.69%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.69%) VLAN
12 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.33%) Power BI
2 54 (12.36%) Relational Database
2 54 (12.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 38 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (6.86%) MySQL
6 28 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 17 (3.89%) Oracle Database
10 17 (3.89%) Tableau
11 15 (3.43%) MongoDB
12 14 (3.20%) Data Lake
13 11 (2.52%) Metadata
14 9 (2.06%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.83%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.60%) Ataccama
16 7 (1.60%) DB2
16 7 (1.60%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 36 (8.24%) Git
2 29 (6.64%) JIRA
3 27 (6.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 13 (2.97%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.75%) GitLab
7 10 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.83%) Selenium
10 6 (1.37%) Burp Suite
10 6 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.14%) AppScan
12 3 (0.69%) JMeter
12 3 (0.69%) NUnit
12 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.69%) Subversion
12 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.46%) Moq
13 2 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 73 (16.70%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (12.13%) Finance
3 33 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 14 (3.20%) Manufacturing
5 13 (2.97%) Banking
6 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.83%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.37%) Marketing
8 6 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.37%) Publishing
9 5 (1.14%) Retail
10 4 (0.92%) Automotive
10 4 (0.92%) German Language
10 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Electronics
11 3 (0.69%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Local Government
11 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (26.32%) Developer
2 52 (11.90%) Senior
3 51 (11.67%) DBA
4 44 (10.07%) Architect
5 43 (9.84%) SQL DBA
6 37 (8.47%) Analyst
7 29 (6.64%) .NET Developer
8 28 (6.41%) Administrator
8 28 (6.41%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (5.72%) Lead
10 20 (4.58%) SQL Developer
11 17 (3.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 17 (3.89%) SQL Server DBA
12 16 (3.66%) Data Analyst
12 16 (3.66%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.97%) Applications Developer
13 13 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (2.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (20.14%) .NET
2 30 (6.86%) HTML
3 27 (6.18%) CSS
4 25 (5.72%) ASP.NET
5 24 (5.49%) .NET Framework
6 20 (4.58%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 17 (3.89%) Entity Framework
9 16 (3.66%) React
10 14 (3.20%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (3.20%) REST
10 14 (3.20%) XML
11 13 (2.97%) RESTful
12 12 (2.75%) Web Services
13 10 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (2.29%) Kafka
14 8 (1.83%) JSON
14 8 (1.83%) SOAP
14 8 (1.83%) Swagger
15 7 (1.60%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.26%) Clustering
2 22 (5.03%) Public Cloud
3 18 (4.12%) Replication
4 15 (3.43%) PKI
5 13 (2.97%) Client/Server
5 13 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.06%) Blog
7 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.37%) NHS
10 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 99 (22.65%) Windows
2 53 (12.13%) Linux
2 53 (12.13%) Windows Server
3 23 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 19 (4.35%) Unix
5 15 (3.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.52%) Windows 10
7 10 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (1.60%) Android
11 6 (1.37%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.37%) zOS
12 5 (1.14%) VMS
13 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.74%) Agile
2 90 (20.59%) DevOps
3 78 (17.85%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (13.96%) Migration
5 49 (11.21%) ETL
6 45 (10.30%) High Availability
7 44 (10.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (9.84%) Data Modelling
9 33 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (7.09%) CI/CD
11 29 (6.64%) Data Protection
11 29 (6.64%) Mentoring
12 28 (6.41%) MVC
13 27 (6.18%) Scrum
14 26 (5.95%) Data Migration
15 24 (5.49%) Analytics
16 22 (5.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (4.81%) OO
17 21 (4.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 246 (56.29%) SQL
2 108 (24.71%) C#
3 77 (17.62%) PowerShell
4 44 (10.07%) JavaScript
5 39 (8.92%) T-SQL
6 38 (8.70%) Python
7 35 (8.01%) Java
8 17 (3.89%) Bash
9 15 (3.43%) C
10 11 (2.52%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.60%) C++
14 4 (0.92%) F#
14 4 (0.92%) PHP
14 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.92%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.69%) VBA
16 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 71 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.30%) Degree
4 37 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.83%) MCSE
7 7 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.14%) CCNA
8 5 (1.14%) CCNP
8 5 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.14%) MCITP
8 5 (1.14%) MCTS
8 5 (1.14%) SAP Certification
9 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.69%) ISEB
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.07%) QA
2 16 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (0.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) GxP
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (14.87%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.06%) Docker
4 9 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.06%) vSphere
5 8 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.83%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.23%) HDFS
8 1 (0.23%) IAG
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (6.41%) Ansible
2 25 (5.72%) Terraform
3 23 (5.26%) SCCM
4 15 (3.43%) Microsoft Clustering
5 13 (2.97%) Nagios
6 12 (2.75%) Kubernetes
7 10 (2.29%) Nessus
7 10 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.06%) Grafana
8 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.83%) Graylog
9 8 (1.83%) NetBackup
10 7 (1.60%) Puppet
11 6 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.37%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.14%) HP Fortify
12 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.14%) WebInspect
13 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 152 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.04%) Oracle
3 50 (11.44%) VMware
4 21 (4.81%) SAP
5 16 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.75%) Splunk
7 11 (2.52%) Veeam
8 10 (2.29%) Cisco
8 10 (2.29%) F5
9 9 (2.06%) NetApp
10 8 (1.83%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.83%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.83%) Hitachi
10 8 (1.83%) Siemens
11 7 (1.60%) Databricks
11 7 (1.60%) Dataiku
11 7 (1.60%) HP
11 7 (1.60%) Trillium
12 6 (1.37%) Aruba
12 6 (1.37%) Checkmarx