SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.10% - 2.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.33% - 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £518 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £475 £285
% change year-on-year -10.53% +66.67% -36.67%

All Database & BI Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6 11 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 3.31% 12.09% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 27
10th Percentile £392 £525 £525
25th Percentile £469 £533 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £680 £676
90th Percentile £656 £720 £710
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £569 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.50
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - -49.30% +21.89%
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £70.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +133.33% -61.54%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Cheltenham

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) PTC