SQL Server Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 93 56
Rank change year-on-year +25 -37 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 21 25 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.78% 1.27% 3.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.73% 9.73% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 44
10th Percentile £174 £322 £401
25th Percentile £418 £391 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £573 £549 £675
90th Percentile £599 £589 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 179 257 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.21% 13.02% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 142 170
10th Percentile £403 £307 £340
25th Percentile £455 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -3.24% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £689
South East median daily rate £500 £482 £525
% change year-on-year +3.73% -8.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 7
10th Percentile - £19.30 £41.90
25th Percentile - £20.75 £55.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -16.71% +211.11%
75th Percentile - £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £38.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -37.66% -33.04% +155.56%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Berkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Reading +30 7 £574 +27.61% 12
Windsor - 5 £500 - 1
Bracknell +7 3 - - 11
Wokingham - 1 £500 - 1
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) SAS
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
5 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (4.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) GIS
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Tableau
3 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Power Query
3 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Sisense
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.76%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.76%) Fiddler
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) French Language
3 1 (4.76%) Italian Language
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Support
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.52%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
3 3 (14.29%) CSS
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) OAuth
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (9.52%) MDX
4 2 (9.52%) Web Services
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) ADO
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.76%) Blazor
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Fat Client
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.52%) SCADA
2 2 (9.52%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Agile
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 2 (9.52%) Cartography
6 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.52%) High Availability
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) Perl
5 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.52%) X++
6 1 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) SCVMM
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) BMC
4 1 (4.76%) Remedy
4 1 (4.76%) UiPath