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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 93 65
Rank change year-on-year +27 -28 -32
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 25 24 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.23% 1.25% 2.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.97% 9.88% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 37
10th Percentile £216 £318 £406
25th Percentile £500 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £675
90th Percentile £675 £564 £700
South East median daily rate £459 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -8.20% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £58.91 £80.00
% change year-on-year +8.22% -26.37% +272.09%

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 179 243 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.94% 12.66% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 130 163
10th Percentile £406 £298 £340
25th Percentile £459 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £597
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 7
10th Percentile - £19.30 £41.90
25th Percentile £32.05 £20.75 £61.75
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.60 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.24% -18.41% +79.76%
75th Percentile £65.62 - £79.19
90th Percentile - £66.32 -
South East median hourly rate £29.91 £56.95 £58.59
% change year-on-year -47.49% -2.79% +160.40%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +31 10 £618 +37.33% 52
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Bracknell +9 1 - - 10
Wokingham - 1 £500 - 2
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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) Azure API Management
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (12.00%) SSDT
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.00%) GIS
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Power Query
3 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Sisense
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Military
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) French Language
4 1 (4.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Administrator
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) DBA
3 4 (16.00%) Senior DBA
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.00%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (16.00%) OAuth
3 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 3 (12.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) SOAP
3 3 (12.00%) YAML
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) ADO
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) Blazor
5 1 (4.00%) MDX
5 1 (4.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Fat Client
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) DevOps
1 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.00%) ETL
3 4 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (16.00%) Secure Coding
3 4 (16.00%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) B2B
4 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) Bicep
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
5 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Python
5 2 (8.00%) X++
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (8.00%) Puppet
3 2 (8.00%) SCVMM
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) UiPath
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) BMC
5 1 (4.00%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (4.00%) Remedy