SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% 0.27% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 4.76% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile £456 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.12%
75th Percentile £519 - £675
90th Percentile - - £702
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +11.11%

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 34 21 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.52% 5.57% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 21
10th Percentile £395 £312 £425
25th Percentile £461 £348 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £634 £585 £650
90th Percentile £719 £605 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £33.45 £18.83 £15.51
25th Percentile £36.75 £20.06 £29.77
Median hourly rate £43.50 £22.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% -69.67% +215.79%
75th Percentile £50.30 £26.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £53.63 £27.68 -
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -61.22% +50.38%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

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 5 November 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 -8 2 £488 - 7
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Repair
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security 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