SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 14 -
Rank change year-on-year -16 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.38% 4.95% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 38.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
South West median daily rate £630 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.18% +1.15%

All Database & BI Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 36 13 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 13.64% 12.87% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £330 £329 £406
25th Percentile £380 £359 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £441 £506
90th Percentile £825 £461 £515
South West median daily rate £500 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.09% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £48.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 - -
Median hourly rate £74.68 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £41.71 £65.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -35.83% +116.67% -60.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Dorset

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Bournemouth -12 1 £300 -25.00% 1
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods