SQL Server Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 61 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 20 43 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.01% 2.65% 3.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.25% 19.82% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 60
10th Percentile £398 £400 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £589 £550 £539
90th Percentile £625 £658 £609
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -8.86% +16.18% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - -
Median hourly rate £20.71 - -
75th Percentile £21.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.71 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 151 217 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.15% 13.37% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 157 241
10th Percentile £378 £413 £363
25th Percentile £441 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.68
25th Percentile £19.44 - £20.70
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £22.40
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.75%
75th Percentile £21.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.25 - £21.20
% change year-on-year - - +1.19%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Leeds -2 19 £513 +2.50% 22
Bradford - 1 £375 - 3
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) Akamai
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) OCI
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) QlikView
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) GitLab
2 5 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (20.00%) AppScan
3 4 (20.00%) Burp Suite
3 4 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Back Office
2 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 5 (25.00%) SQL BI Developer
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Environment Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Information Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (5.00%) LIMS
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Project Management
5 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Change Control
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) OWASP
6 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Product Requirements
7 3 (15.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (25.00%) Puppet
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 4 (20.00%) Graylog
2 4 (20.00%) HP Fortify
2 4 (20.00%) Nessus
2 4 (20.00%) WebInspect
3 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Splunk
2 4 (20.00%) Veracode
3 1 (5.00%) Aruba
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) iManage
3 1 (5.00%) Intapp
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Sophos
3 1 (5.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler