SQL Server Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 69 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -32 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 36 43 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.82% 2.37% 5.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.17% 14.98% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 102
10th Percentile £329 £331 £360
25th Percentile £400 £432 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £485 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -4.55% +12.92%
75th Percentile £566 £563 £575
90th Percentile £677 £600 £674
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £56.44 - -
25th Percentile £56.87 - -
Median hourly rate £58.16 - -
75th Percentile £58.87 - -
90th Percentile £58.95 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £43.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +35.41% +102.33% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 254 287 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.86% 15.82% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 185 295
10th Percentile £313 £340 £336
25th Percentile £413 £415 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £663 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -6.34% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 1
10th Percentile £19.15 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £47.24 £53.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.30 £72.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +223.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £63.08 £79.19 £23.75
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +1.84%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
Reading -1 23 £500 - 7
Bracknell -6 7 £450 - 7
Newbury -1 1 £525 +228.13%
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 1 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) Jadu
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Azure API Management
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Functions
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.56%) AWS
4 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 6 (16.67%) DHCP
2 6 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (11.11%) FTP
3 4 (11.11%) NAS
3 4 (11.11%) SAN
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.56%) VPN
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.78%) LAN
5 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (19.44%) MySQL
2 6 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) French Language
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 7 (19.44%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 4 (11.11%) DBA
4 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
5 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) ETL Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) SQL DBA
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (13.89%) ARM Templates
3 4 (11.11%) SOAP
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) OAuth
4 3 (8.33%) OpenID
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) XML
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.56%) CSS
5 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.56%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.78%) LAMP
6 1 (2.78%) MDX
6 1 (2.78%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) Symfony
6 1 (2.78%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) PKI
2 5 (13.89%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (11.11%) Fat Client
3 4 (11.11%) Thin Client
4 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 7 (19.44%) Linux
4 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
4 4 (11.11%) Unix
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) OO
2 7 (19.44%) Migration
3 6 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Application Security
4 5 (13.89%) B2C
4 5 (13.89%) Break/Fix
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
4 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Scrum
4 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
5 4 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.11%) ETL
5 4 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 4 (11.11%) Revenue Assurance
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (19.44%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) F#
4 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (11.11%) Nessus
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 4 (11.11%) WSUS
2 4 (11.11%) ZABBIX
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (5.56%) Graylog
4 2 (5.56%) Nagios
4 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Oracle
2 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.89%) VMware
4 4 (11.11%) Informatica
4 4 (11.11%) Veeam
5 2 (5.56%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco
6 1 (2.78%) Meraki
6 1 (2.78%) SAP