SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 5.97% - 1.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.67% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £375
75th Percentile £550 - £388
90th Percentile £580 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% -21.05%

All Database & BI Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 22.39% 9.09% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 13
10th Percentile £424 - £390
25th Percentile £475 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - £490
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.39%
75th Percentile £618 - £625
90th Percentile £695 - £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -10.91%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Bradford

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality