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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 58 42
Rank change year-on-year -38 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 434 881 1,505
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 3.85% 4.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.98% 25.61% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 663 1,126
10th Percentile £306 £331 £311
25th Percentile £388 £412 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.41% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 31
10th Percentile £36.75 £24.39 -
25th Percentile - £29.44 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -24.07% +115.40%
75th Percentile £46.18 £59.75 £69.05
90th Percentile £62.96 £76.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £49.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -18.37% -1.51% +98.44%

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 2,556 3,440 5,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 15.02% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,813 2,459 3,817
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £576 £597 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 106 129
10th Percentile £13.54 £21.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £38.50 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.40% +62.71% +45.83%
75th Percentile £59.50 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -10 108 £475 -2.29% 226
South East -56 101 £475 -6.40% 267
Midlands +6 89 £450 +5.88% 176
South West -13 73 £538 +7.50% 94
North West -8 72 £475 +1.33% 120
West Midlands -13 46 £518 +1.22% 103
East Midlands +11 40 £445 +14.84% 73
Scotland -24 36 £475 - 45
Yorkshire -16 26 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -29 24 £475 +5.56% 72
North East +15 10 £475 -13.64% 42
Wales +3 10 £563 +7.14% 13
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 35 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.76%) Confluence
4 7 (1.61%) Apache
4 7 (1.61%) SAS
4 7 (1.61%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.38%) IIS
6 3 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.46%) WordPress
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jadu
8 1 (0.23%) JBoss
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.84%) CATIA
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.84%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Relativity
5 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 160 (36.87%) Azure
2 87 (20.05%) Power Platform
3 58 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (10.83%) AWS
5 36 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (4.84%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.15%) PowerApps
9 17 (3.92%) GitHub
10 16 (3.69%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.23%) Serverless
12 12 (2.76%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.53%) GCP
13 11 (2.53%) PaaS
14 8 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.61%) Collibra
15 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
16 6 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.76%) DNS
2 22 (5.07%) Firewall
3 21 (4.84%) SAN
4 20 (4.61%) DHCP
5 14 (3.23%) LAN
6 13 (3.00%) WAN
7 11 (2.53%) NAS
7 11 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.84%) MPLS
9 5 (1.15%) FTP
9 5 (1.15%) Network Security
10 4 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.69%) BGP
11 3 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.69%) IOS XR
11 3 (0.69%) VLAN
11 3 (0.69%) VPN
11 3 (0.69%) Wireless
12 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.43%) Power BI
2 53 (12.21%) Relational Database
3 52 (11.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (8.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (6.91%) MySQL
7 29 (6.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.30%) Tableau
9 22 (5.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 21 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (4.15%) Data Lake
12 17 (3.92%) Oracle Database
13 13 (3.00%) MongoDB
14 11 (2.53%) Metadata
15 8 (1.84%) DB2
15 8 (1.84%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (7.14%) Git
2 26 (5.99%) JIRA
2 26 (5.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 16 (3.69%) Visual Studio
4 15 (3.46%) GitLab
5 13 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (2.76%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.84%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.84%) Selenium
8 6 (1.38%) Burp Suite
8 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
9 5 (1.15%) AppScan
10 4 (0.92%) JMeter
10 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.69%) NUnit
12 2 (0.46%) Moq
12 2 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 79 (18.20%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.44%) Finance
3 53 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.23%) Banking
6 11 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.84%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.38%) Publishing
9 5 (1.15%) Marketing
9 5 (1.15%) Retail
10 4 (0.92%) Automotive
10 4 (0.92%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 2 (0.46%) German Language
12 2 (0.46%) Law
12 2 (0.46%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 121 (27.88%) Developer
2 45 (10.37%) DBA
3 43 (9.91%) Senior
4 42 (9.68%) Architect
5 40 (9.22%) Analyst
6 37 (8.53%) SQL DBA
7 33 (7.60%) Administrator
7 33 (7.60%) Data Engineer
8 27 (6.22%) .NET Developer
9 25 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 21 (4.84%) SQL Developer
11 20 (4.61%) Lead
12 18 (4.15%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.46%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.00%) Applications Developer
15 12 (2.76%) Software Developer
15 12 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 11 (2.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (20.74%) .NET
2 33 (7.60%) HTML
3 29 (6.68%) CSS
4 27 (6.22%) ASP.NET
5 26 (5.99%) .NET Framework
6 21 (4.84%) .NET Core
7 20 (4.61%) Entity Framework
8 18 (4.15%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.15%) React
9 16 (3.69%) RESTful
10 15 (3.46%) Web Services
11 14 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
12 13 (3.00%) XML
13 12 (2.76%) REST
14 10 (2.30%) Kafka
15 8 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (1.84%) jQuery
16 7 (1.61%) OpenAPI
16 7 (1.61%) Swagger
17 6 (1.38%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.30%) Clustering
2 22 (5.07%) Public Cloud
3 19 (4.38%) Replication
4 13 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.00%) PKI
5 12 (2.76%) Client/Server
5 12 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.07%) Blog
8 8 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.61%) NHS
10 6 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.35%) Windows
2 55 (12.67%) Windows Server
3 49 (11.29%) Linux
4 21 (4.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (4.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (3.92%) Unix
7 10 (2.30%) Windows 10
7 10 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.84%) zOS
9 7 (1.61%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.38%) VMS
11 5 (1.15%) Android
11 5 (1.15%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (19.82%) Agile
2 85 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (19.35%) DevOps
4 54 (12.44%) ETL
5 52 (11.98%) Data Modelling
5 52 (11.98%) Migration
6 46 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (9.91%) High Availability
8 40 (9.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (6.91%) MVC
11 29 (6.68%) Performance Tuning
12 28 (6.45%) CI/CD
13 27 (6.22%) Analytics
13 27 (6.22%) Data Protection
14 26 (5.99%) Data Migration
14 26 (5.99%) Mentoring
15 25 (5.76%) Scrum
15 25 (5.76%) Visualisation
16 21 (4.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 239 (55.07%) SQL
2 110 (25.35%) C#
3 68 (15.67%) PowerShell
4 46 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.29%) T-SQL
6 35 (8.06%) Python
7 31 (7.14%) Java
8 16 (3.69%) C
9 14 (3.23%) Bash
10 11 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.30%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.30%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.61%) C++
13 5 (1.15%) PHP
14 4 (0.92%) F#
15 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.69%) VBA
16 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 108 (24.88%) Security Cleared
2 64 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.75%) Degree
4 37 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.84%) MCSE
7 5 (1.15%) MCITP
7 5 (1.15%) MCTS
7 5 (1.15%) SAP Certification
8 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.69%) ISEB
9 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.46%) SANS
10 2 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.68%) QA
2 15 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.92%) NIST
4 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.46%) GxP
5 2 (0.46%) HL7
5 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
6 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.30%) Docker
5 9 (2.07%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.84%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (1.84%) vSphere
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.23%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) IAG
9 1 (0.23%) NFS
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (5.53%) Ansible
2 20 (4.61%) SCCM
3 18 (4.15%) Terraform
4 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Clustering
5 11 (2.53%) Kubernetes
5 11 (2.53%) Nagios
6 10 (2.30%) Nessus
6 10 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.84%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.84%) Puppet
8 7 (1.61%) Grafana
8 7 (1.61%) Graylog
8 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.38%) WSUS
10 5 (1.15%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.15%) SCOM
10 5 (1.15%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 152 (35.02%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.59%) Oracle
3 47 (10.83%) VMware
4 20 (4.61%) SAP
5 15 (3.46%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.53%) Splunk
7 9 (2.07%) NetApp
8 8 (1.84%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.84%) Databricks
8 8 (1.84%) F5
8 8 (1.84%) Hitachi
8 8 (1.84%) Siemens
8 8 (1.84%) Veeam
9 7 (1.61%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.61%) Trillium
10 6 (1.38%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.38%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.38%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.38%) Cisco
11 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow