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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 88 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 -34
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 23 36 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.96% 1.81% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.77% 14.23% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 33
10th Percentile - £329 £331
25th Percentile £500 £400 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £506 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +4.38% -4.90%
75th Percentile £600 £566 £563
90th Percentile £675 £677 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £56.44 -
25th Percentile £61.87 £56.87 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £58.16 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.87 -
90th Percentile - £58.95 -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £58.91 £43.50
% change year-on-year +8.22% +35.41% +102.33%

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 167 253 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.24% 12.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 185
10th Percentile £406 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +18 10 £618 +23.60% 33
Windsor - 6 £500 - 2
Wokingham - 1 £500 - 1
Maidenhead - 1 £500 - 6
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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) IIS
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Azure API Management
3 4 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) PaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) SSDT
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) GIS
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
2 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Military
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Administrator
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
1 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DBA
2 4 (17.39%) Senior DBA
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.35%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (4.35%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
2 3 (13.04%) OAuth
2 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 3 (13.04%) YAML
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) PySpark
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) Blazor
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps
1 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (17.39%) ETL
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Secure Coding
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) RBAC
5 3 (13.04%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) Bicep
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) UiPath
4 2 (8.70%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) BMC
5 1 (4.35%) Remedy