SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 1.83% 1.96% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 9.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% - -
County Antrim median daily rate £430 £470 -
% change year-on-year -8.51% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18 33 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 10.98% 21.57% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 30 6
10th Percentile £379 £250 £325
25th Percentile £411 £400 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +15.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £669 £529 £434
90th Percentile £740 £609 £466
County Antrim median daily rate £463 £460 £400
% change year-on-year +0.54% +15.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.41%
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.50 - £16.12
% change year-on-year - - +19.41%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Belfast

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle