SQL Server Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 27 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.70% 3.59% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.57% 35.29% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £375 £331 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £338 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -20.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £425 £416 £650
90th Percentile £433 £459 £665
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bedfordshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 17 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 5.96% 10.18% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 16
10th Percentile £363 £334 £293
25th Percentile £403 £391 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £423
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +21.30% -7.40%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £575
90th Percentile £560 - £625
East of England median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.35
25th Percentile - - £57.13
Median hourly rate - - £63.50
75th Percentile - - £67.00
90th Percentile - - £68.05
East of England median hourly rate £15.98 £64.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -75.13% +83.57% +41.73%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Bedfordshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
Dunstable - 2 - -
Luton -9 1 £425 +25.93%
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £375 -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Collibra
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Ataccama
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Development DBA
3 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Alteryx
1 1 (25.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Trillium