SQL Server Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 25 41
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 17 46 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.35% 5.32% 3.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.71% 35.11% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 35
10th Percentile £262 £289 £223
25th Percentile £270 £324 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £327 £435 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.94% +16.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £390 £489 £460
90th Percentile £449 £571 £500
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.21 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year - +6.51% +27.61%
England median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -37.50% -17.95% -10.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 96 131 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.30% 15.16% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 91 113
10th Percentile £313 £288 £223
25th Percentile £358 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £473 £510
90th Percentile £515 £525 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £18.29 £12.51 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.43 - £20.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.17% -33.14%
75th Percentile £26.99 £20.00 £25.26
90th Percentile £34.17 £27.77 £25.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the East Midlands

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Northamptonshire -9 11 £313 -26.87% 5
Derbyshire +5 2 £463 +43.63% 7
Leicestershire -5 2 £385 +26.75% 16
Nottinghamshire -8 1 £500 - 13
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) CICS
3 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) DB2
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
2 6 (35.29%) Maven
3 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
3 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
3 4 (23.53%) JUnit
3 4 (23.53%) Mockito
3 4 (23.53%) SonarQube
3 4 (23.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
4 2 (11.76%) Git
4 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.88%) Introscope
5 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) DBA
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
2 6 (35.29%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
4 4 (23.53%) Jest
4 4 (23.53%) JPA
4 4 (23.53%) Node.js
4 4 (23.53%) React
4 4 (23.53%) Redux
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
5 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.76%) J2EE
6 2 (11.76%) JSON
6 2 (11.76%) XML
7 1 (5.88%) JDBC
7 1 (5.88%) REST
7 1 (5.88%) Spring
7 1 (5.88%) Web Services
7 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) VSAM
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) AIX
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (29.41%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Data Management
7 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) SDLC
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
8 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
4 5 (29.41%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) Python
6 2 (11.76%) COBOL
6 2 (11.76%) JCL
6 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.88%) C
7 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) CA Wily
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Veracode
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) Solace
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) VMware