SQL Server Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 11 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 4.96% 7.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.67% 27.47% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 28
10th Percentile £311 £301 £412
25th Percentile £339 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £610 £601
90th Percentile - - £659
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +9.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Knutsford 0 7 £475 +6.74% 3
Macclesfield +9 1 £400 -15.79% 1
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 3 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) nginx
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (18.18%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 2 (18.18%) MSDE
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) DB2
3 1 (9.09%) DTS
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Angular Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Secrets Management
5 3 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (18.18%) CRM
6 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (9.09%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) Ruby
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Kibana
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Perfmon
4 1 (9.09%) SCOM
4 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
4 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Imperva
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) VMware