SQL Server Contracts in Coventry

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 17 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 2.06% 3.50% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.38% 22.73% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £397 £184
25th Percentile - £408 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -
75th Percentile - £481 £388
90th Percentile - £485 £391
West Midlands median daily rate £582 £463 £516
% change year-on-year +25.89% -10.41% +21.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 13 22 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 13.40% 15.38% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 22
10th Percentile £374 £367 £363
25th Percentile £390 £456 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £450 £580 £525
90th Percentile £480 £610 £571
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Coventry

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Coventry

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Coventry

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle