SQL Server Contracts in Derbyshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 18 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 1.03% 1.18% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 40.00% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.05%
East Midlands median daily rate £331 £482 £400
% change year-on-year -31.43% +20.50% -11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 7.22% 2.94% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £403 £344
25th Percentile £450 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £426
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -0.23% -21.11%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £476
90th Percentile - £518 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £459 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +35.71% -47.13% -24.34%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Derbyshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Derbyshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Derbyshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire 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
Derby +9 1 - - 23
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle