SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.98% 3.03% 3.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 15.00% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £508 - £644
90th Percentile £586 - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £567 £438
% change year-on-year -20.63% +29.60% -2.78%

All Database & BI 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 28 20 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 13.86% 20.20% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 25
10th Percentile - £392 £409
25th Percentile £263 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £497 £481 £588
90th Percentile £592 £500 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £512 £475
% change year-on-year +1.27% +7.79% -9.52%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Coventry

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Coventry over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Coventry

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall Support
1 2 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Server Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) VMware