SQL Server Integration Services Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Server Integration Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 56 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.59% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.41% 1.33% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £486 - £368
25th Percentile £494 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £275 £406
Median % change year-on-year +86.36% -32.31% -37.50%
75th Percentile £584 - £439
90th Percentile £609 - £449
North West median daily rate £455 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% -5.56% -18.18%

All Database & BI Skills
Cheshire

SQL Server Integration Services 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 75 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.96% 16.93% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 60 70
10th Percentile £328 £334 £356
25th Percentile £375 £365 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £426 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -12.88% +8.67%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £558
90th Percentile £621 £643 £610
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £22.94 £33.82 £27.63
25th Percentile £33.45 £39.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £51.43 £49.90 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% +17.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £68.95 £59.95 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.18 £65.98 -
North West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.43 £42.50
% change year-on-year +144.79% -40.16% -5.56%

SQL Server Integration Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

SQL Server Integration Services job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SQL Server Integration Services

SQL Server Integration Services
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 Integration Services within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 2026. 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
Chester - 3 £513 - 1
SQL Server Integration Services
North West

SQL Server Integration Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (25.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (25.00%) DTS
4 1 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Database Mirroring
1 3 (75.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) BMC
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase