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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 40 43
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.85% 1.15% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.04% 20.00% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £456 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £528
90th Percentile - - £571
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +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 23 25 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.55% 5.76% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 33
10th Percentile £379 £324 £305
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £677 £585 £506
90th Percentile £744 £618 £575
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -10.00% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.83 £26.90
25th Percentile £53.55 £20.06 £44.00
Median hourly rate £54.70 £22.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.44% -69.67% +215.79%
75th Percentile £55.85 £26.06 £77.50
90th Percentile - £27.68 -
East of England median hourly rate £24.45 £15.49 £72.50
% change year-on-year +57.84% -78.63% +78.00%

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
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 18 September 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 +3 3 £488 - 3
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IFS Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) IFS Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Repair
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) IFS
2 2 (66.67%) Sybase
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SAP