SQL Server Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 52 51
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +29
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 28 79 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.47% 3.74% 4.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.58% 30.98% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 57 94
10th Percentile £303 £244 £216
25th Percentile £356 £331 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% +1.18% -
75th Percentile £589 £550 £538
90th Percentile £670 £605 £680
England median daily rate £525 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £26.25 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £31.88 £24.75
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +37.25% -39.29%
75th Percentile £26.25 - £26.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +55.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 124 255 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 6.52% 12.07% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 166 277
10th Percentile £300 £243 £300
25th Percentile £350 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £551 £613 £538
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 18
10th Percentile £16.15 £22.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £22.75 £35.00 £25.31
Median hourly rate £25.18 £63.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.03% +80.00% +65.68%
75th Percentile £33.50 £65.75 £54.25
90th Percentile £34.40 £66.00 £56.45
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £40.62
% change year-on-year -31.52% +44.26% +63.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Hertfordshire -8 10 £613 +16.67% 33
Cambridgeshire +1 8 £475 -6.17% 23
Suffolk +11 3 £438 +2.94% 1
Norfolk - 3 £292 - 7
Bedfordshire -14 2 £488 +4.00% 2
Essex -16 2 £300 +11.94% 10
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (10.71%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.86%) Power Automate
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 3 (10.71%) Azure
4 3 (10.71%) Serverless
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Collibra
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (3.57%) DHCP
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) NAS
2 1 (3.57%) PBX
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VoIP
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (14.29%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) Tableau
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.14%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) MS Access
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Applications Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Systems Developer
4 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Design Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Designer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) Entity Framework
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
4 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) WCF
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) jQuery
5 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (3.57%) LINQ
5 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) SignalR
5 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (7.14%) FMCG
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
1 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Migration
2 7 (25.00%) Web Development
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
4 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.86%) High Availability
4 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
4 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.86%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) SDLC
5 4 (14.29%) Workflow
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) MVC
7 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
7 2 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) C
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.57%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) RHCE
3 2 (7.14%) RHCSA
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCIE
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) CCNP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) MCSE
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.86%) VMware
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (7.14%) Hortonworks
5 2 (7.14%) Informatica
5 2 (7.14%) Teradata
6 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
6 1 (3.57%) Dataiku
6 1 (3.57%) SAP
6 1 (3.57%) Trillium