SQL Server Developer Contracts

SQL Server Developer
UK

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 662 789
Rank change year-on-year +96 +127 -153
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 13 38 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.063% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.067% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 60
10th Percentile £385 £350 £361
25th Percentile £525 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.49% +16.24%
75th Percentile £625 £565 £550
90th Percentile £635 £675 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +92 12 £575 +9.52% 9
London +103 7 £600 +9.09% 7
Work from Home +110 6 £475 +6.74% 1
UK excluding London +56 5 £550 +4.76% 2
West Midlands +32 2 - -
Midlands +29 2 - -
South East - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire +20 1 £400 -14.89%
North of England +20 1 £400 -23.81% 1

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (46.15%) Azure
6 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (30.77%) C#
7 4 (30.77%) .NET
7 4 (30.77%) Scrum
7 4 (30.77%) Agile
7 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (30.77%) Power BI
7 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
8 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (23.08%) Kanban
8 3 (23.08%) Hedge funds
8 3 (23.08%) DevOps
8 3 (23.08%) Git
8 3 (23.08%) Back Office
8 3 (23.08%) ETL
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
9 2 (15.38%) CRM
9 2 (15.38%) Finance
9 2 (15.38%) Migration
9 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
9 2 (15.38%) GCP
9 2 (15.38%) Apigee
9 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Apigee
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) Power BI
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.69%) QlikView
6 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Back Office
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (23.08%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Kanban
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
5 1 (7.69%) Credit Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Infor
2 1 (7.69%) SAP