SQL Server Contracts in Blackpool

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Lancashire > Blackpool

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blackpool 16.67% - 1.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 42.86% - 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £450 - £403
% change year-on-year - - -32.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Blackpool

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 Blackpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 0 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blackpool 38.89% - 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £395 - £521
25th Percentile £425 - £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £635
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.90%
75th Percentile £525 - £645
90th Percentile £531 - £662
Lancashire median daily rate £488 £484 £625
% change year-on-year +0.72% -22.56% +21.36%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Blackpool

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Blackpool

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Blackpool

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Blackpool

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform