SQL Server Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 25 39 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.00% 7.28% 2.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.88% 42.86% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 7
10th Percentile £301 £412 £470
25th Percentile £445 £436 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +46.65%
75th Percentile £610 £607 £544
90th Percentile - £662 £568
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -7.50% +8.70% +18.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 93 91 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.60% 16.98% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 64 30
10th Percentile £356 £333 £315
25th Percentile £411 £412 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £450 £448
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% +0.56% +6.55%
75th Percentile £558 £586 £584
90th Percentile £610 £679 £644
North West median daily rate £489 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +0.05% -2.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £27.63 - £21.05
25th Percentile £41.25 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +35.59% +136.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £39.00
90th Percentile - - £63.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% +63.64% +17.17%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Cheshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Crewe +4 8 £590 +0.68%
Macclesfield -10 7 £475 +8.57%
Warrington +6 3 £475 +5.56% 6
Knutsford +1 3 £445 -
Chester +3 1 £293 -55.00% 7
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (32.00%) CATIA
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (32.00%) DELMIA
1 8 (32.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
1 7 (28.00%) Snowflake
2 6 (24.00%) Collibra
2 6 (24.00%) Power Automate
2 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) dbt
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Ataccama
1 6 (24.00%) Power BI
1 6 (24.00%) Qlik Sense
2 5 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (20.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (12.00%) DB2
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) PowerPivot
4 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Lead
2 9 (36.00%) Analyst
3 8 (32.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (32.00%) Support Team Leader
4 7 (28.00%) Team Leader
5 6 (24.00%) Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (24.00%) QA Analyst
5 6 (24.00%) Quality Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Senior
6 5 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Senior QA Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Senior Quality Analyst
7 4 (16.00%) Architect
8 3 (12.00%) Developer
8 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
10 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
10 1 (4.00%) Lead C# Developer
10 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (16.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (16.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Android
1 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (32.00%) Configuration Management
2 8 (32.00%) PLM
2 8 (32.00%) Workflow
3 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (28.00%) Data Management
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis
4 6 (24.00%) Data Architecture
4 6 (24.00%) Data Cleansing
4 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
5 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.00%) SDLC
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 3 (12.00%) API Design
6 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) C
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (24.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (32.00%) Siemens
2 6 (24.00%) Alteryx
2 6 (24.00%) Dataiku
2 6 (24.00%) SAP
2 6 (24.00%) Trillium
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle