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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 8 26 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 3.36% 5.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.43% 23.64% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 49
10th Percentile £264 £314 £295
25th Percentile £269 £445 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £482 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +20.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £413 £529 £450
90th Percentile £460 £664 £482
England median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.21 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year - +6.51% -41.16%
England median hourly rate £63.75 £40.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year +58.37% -7.47% -10.31%

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 70 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 14.23% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 74 117
10th Percentile £312 £294 £223
25th Percentile £368 £356 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.49%
75th Percentile £510 £519 £500
90th Percentile £547 £714 £653
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £18.26 £13.26 £20.54
25th Percentile £18.35 - £22.77
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -47.13% -24.34%
75th Percentile £21.25 £21.30 £43.24
90th Percentile £22.30 £35.12 £53.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -7 4 £269 -39.55% 14
Derbyshire +7 1 - - 15
Nottinghamshire +3 1 £500 - 22
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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Introscope
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Mockito
2 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 2 (25.00%) JPA
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Redux
2 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Data Extraction
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Business Development
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) C
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) CA Wily
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Veracode
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) HP