SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.95% - 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.14% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £590
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.59%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £515 £650
% change year-on-year -5.34% -20.77% +52.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 28 16 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.27% 9.20% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 9
10th Percentile £383 £366 £404
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £659 £534 £590
90th Percentile £763 £569 £675
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.56% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £32.38 £18.83 £15.51
25th Percentile £34.06 £20.06 £29.77
Median hourly rate £39.25 £22.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.53% -69.67% -
75th Percentile £47.53 £26.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £52.52 £27.68 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £39.25 £22.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +72.53% -58.64% +110.65%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Cambridge

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IFS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Repair
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) IFS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase