SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.05% - 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £445 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £370 £463
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +15.63%

All Database & BI 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 16 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 8.42% 11.24% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £325 £467 £403
25th Percentile £356 £491 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £548 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.64% +29.00% -2.86%
75th Percentile £494 £577 £488
90th Percentile £521 £580 £518
East Midlands median daily rate £441 £435 £425
% change year-on-year +1.55% +2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £42.71 £20.60 £14.00
% change year-on-year +107.32% +47.14% -47.13%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

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 8 April 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
Derby - 1 £525 - 1
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks