SQL Server Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 31 52 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.01% 4.99% 5.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.05% 34.90% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 59
10th Percentile £335 £277 £308
25th Percentile £400 £330 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £518 £450 £494
90th Percentile £625 £483 £538
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +12.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £10.43 - £28.25
25th Percentile £16.23 - £36.88
Median hourly rate £28.21 £26.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -41.16% -5.26%
75th Percentile £41.21 - £46.67
90th Percentile £47.63 - -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £43.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -7.47% -12.12% +76.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 119 149 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.37% 14.29% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 119 166
10th Percentile £292 £223 £313
25th Percentile £356 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £509 £500 £500
90th Percentile £678 £651 £575
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 16
10th Percentile £13.26 £19.80 £17.63
25th Percentile - £20.92 £22.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.17% -33.14% +36.13%
75th Percentile £21.30 £25.26 -
90th Percentile £35.12 £25.99 £45.84
England median hourly rate £40.13 £56.95 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.54% +34.00% +70.00%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 May 2024. 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 +17 15 £428 -4.89% 12
Nottinghamshire +4 6 £500 +51.40% 24
Lincolnshire - 5 £700 - 7
Derbyshire +4 2 - - 12
Leicestershire -17 2 £300 -20.00% 14
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 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) SaaS
3 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DB2
2 3 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) OLAP
4 1 (3.23%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (3.23%) Power Query
4 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.23%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (3.23%) Police
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (19.35%) DBA
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Designer
4 4 (12.90%) Full Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) SQL DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.68%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 6 (19.35%) React
3 4 (12.90%) OpenAPI
3 4 (12.90%) RAML
3 4 (12.90%) RESTful
3 4 (12.90%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.23%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.90%) Mainframe
1 4 (12.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Clustering
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.90%) Android
3 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.23%) Linux
5 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
2 8 (25.81%) Architectural Design
2 8 (25.81%) Data Modelling
3 6 (19.35%) High Availability
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (12.90%) API Design
5 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
5 4 (12.90%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
5 4 (12.90%) Project Management
5 4 (12.90%) SDLC
5 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
5 4 (12.90%) Waterfall
6 3 (9.68%) ETL
6 3 (9.68%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) C#
2 8 (25.81%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) C
4 3 (9.68%) Python
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) R
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) VB
6 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) MCITP
2 5 (16.13%) MCTS
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Data Guard
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.45%) Teradata
4 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) EMC
4 1 (3.23%) SAP