SQL Server Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 52 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.64% 1.18% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.53% 20.00% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £406 £418 £440
25th Percentile £414 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £489 £488 £528
90th Percentile £507 - £571
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 19 30 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.07% 5.88% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 37
10th Percentile £383 £309 £303
25th Percentile £413 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £418 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.77% -7.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £605 £488 £506
90th Percentile £673 £587 £620
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £17.95 - -
25th Percentile £18.16 £26.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £19.15 £27.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +71.88% +10.34%
75th Percentile £20.76 £28.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £21.36 - -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £15.49 £63.00
% change year-on-year +104.26% -75.41% +80.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Cambridge +4 2 £444 - 10
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IFS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Repair
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IFS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase