SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Devon

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 0.61% - 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.11% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile - - £288
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £535 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +4.39% -10.87% +15.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 9 47 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 5.52% 20.61% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 31
10th Percentile - £346 £465
25th Percentile £210 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £369 £575 £600
90th Percentile £448 £608 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -1.18% -7.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £17.10
Median hourly rate - £19.83 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year - +6.53% -66.15%
75th Percentile - - £20.13
90th Percentile - - £21.04
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £49.34
% change year-on-year +127.57% -42.11% -13.23%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Devon

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Exeter - 1 £520 - 6
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Database Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft