SQL Server Contracts in the 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 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) England / East of England
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	26	12	9
Rank change year-on-year	-14	-3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server	149	227	329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England	6.41%	8.91%	10.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	33.18%	42.91%	44.95%
Number of daily rates quoted	91	155	205
Median daily rate	£363	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-3.33%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£285	£245	£180
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£500	£503
UK excluding London median daily rate	£360	£350	£335
% change year-on-year	+2.85%	+4.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	14	16
Median hourly rate	£27.50	£31.14	£30.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.67%	+1.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.75	£27.00	£19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.50	£35.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£39.50	£32.66	£23.63
% change year-on-year	+20.96%	+38.22%

SQL Server is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next 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 and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills East of England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	449	529	732
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England	19.32%	20.75%	23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted	245	312	409
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£358
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+11.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£250	£238
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£388	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.22%	+10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	22	25
Median hourly rate	£17.50	£34.50	£23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-49.27%	+46.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.00	£26.20	£19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£34.75	£40.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£30.35	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+25.19%	+16.74%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East of England citing SQL Server as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the East of England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server in the East of England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire	-2	52	£368	-13.52%	34
Cambridgeshire	-6	32	£339	-8.75%	32
Essex	-40	20	£400	+33.33%	14
Bedfordshire	+1	18	£425	+21.42%	13
Norfolk	+7	13	£320	-16.33%	6
Suffolk	-2	13	£350	-31.70%	15
East Anglia	-2	2	-	-
SQL Server England

SQL Server
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the East of England region with a requirement for SQL Server.

1	154 (53.29%)	SQL
2	147 (50.87%)	.NET
3	139 (48.10%)	Microsoft
4	128 (44.29%)	C#
5	81 (28.03%)	Agile Software Development
6	79 (27.34%)	ASP.NET
7	71 (24.57%)	Windows
7	71 (24.57%)	JavaScript
8	68 (23.53%)	MVC
9	62 (21.45%)	HTML
10	61 (21.11%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	55 (19.03%)	T-SQL
12	50 (17.30%)	CSS
13	49 (16.96%)	Business Intelligence
13	49 (16.96%)	SQL Server Integration Services

14	48 (16.61%)	Team Foundation Server
15	47 (16.26%)	.NET Framework
16	41 (14.19%)	XML
17	40 (13.84%)	Oracle
17	40 (13.84%)	TDD
17	40 (13.84%)	SQL Server 2008
17	40 (13.84%)	Windows Server
18	39 (13.49%)	SQL Server 2012
19	38 (13.15%)	AngularJS
19	38 (13.15%)	Java
20	37 (12.80%)	Migration
21	35 (12.11%)	WCF
22	34 (11.76%)	Visual Studio
22	34 (11.76%)	Web Services
23	33 (11.42%)	jQuery

SQL Server
Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	28 (9.69%)	IIS
2	26 (9.00%)	SharePoint
3	23 (7.96%)	BizTalk Server
4	16 (5.54%)	MS Exchange
5	10 (3.46%)	CMS
6	8 (2.77%)	Skype for Business
7	6 (2.08%)	Exchange Server 2010
7	6 (2.08%)	Tomcat
8	5 (1.73%)	SharePoint Server
9	4 (1.38%)	JBoss
9	4 (1.38%)	WebSphere
10	3 (1.04%)	Apache
10	3 (1.04%)	Apache Solr
10	3 (1.04%)	Apache Spark
10	3 (1.04%)	Confluence
10	3 (1.04%)	Elasticsearch
10	3 (1.04%)	SharePoint 2010
10	3 (1.04%)	WebLogic
10	3 (1.04%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	3 (1.04%)	WebSphere Portal

Applications
1	11 (3.81%)	Microsoft Office
2	5 (1.73%)	Microsoft Excel
3	4 (1.38%)	MS Visio
4	1 (0.35%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	14 (4.84%)	Dynamics CRM
2	13 (4.50%)	Dynamics AX
3	4 (1.38%)	Adobe Campaign
3	4 (1.38%)	Dynamics NAV
3	4 (1.38%)	Unica
4	3 (1.04%)	Dynamics GP
4	3 (1.04%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4	3 (1.04%)	SAP BPC
4	3 (1.04%)	SAP SD
5	2 (0.69%)	Oracle ERP
5	2 (0.69%)	SAP MII
6	1 (0.35%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	1 (0.35%)	Lorenzo
6	1 (0.35%)	Oracle Receivables
6	1 (0.35%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	33 (11.42%)	Microsoft Azure
2	12 (4.15%)	Amazon AWS
3	8 (2.77%)	Office 365
4	6 (2.08%)	Yammer
5	4 (1.38%)	Adobe Analytics
5	4 (1.38%)	PaaS
6	3 (1.04%)	Amazon S3
6	3 (1.04%)	AWS Lambda
6	3 (1.04%)	GitHub
7	2 (0.69%)	Amazon EC2
7	2 (0.69%)	Amazon SQS
7	2 (0.69%)	BrowserStack
7	2 (0.69%)	IaaS
7	2 (0.69%)	Route 53
7	2 (0.69%)	SaaS
8	1 (0.35%)	Amazon EMR
8	1 (0.35%)	Azure Active Directory
8	1 (0.35%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.35%)	Mimecast

Communications & Networking
1	12 (4.15%)	SAN
2	11 (3.81%)	Firewall
3	8 (2.77%)	DNS
4	7 (2.42%)	LAN
4	7 (2.42%)	WAN
5	6 (2.08%)	Internet
5	6 (2.08%)	NAS
6	5 (1.73%)	TCP/IP
7	3 (1.04%)	DHCP
7	3 (1.04%)	Remote Desktop
7	3 (1.04%)	Skype
7	3 (1.04%)	SSL
7	3 (1.04%)	Wi-Fi
8	2 (0.69%)	IMAP
8	2 (0.69%)	NetScaler
8	2 (0.69%)	SMTP
8	2 (0.69%)	Wireshark
9	1 (0.35%)	HTTP
9	1 (0.35%)	NFC
9	1 (0.35%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	61 (21.11%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
2	49 (16.96%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	40 (13.84%)	SQL Server 2008
4	39 (13.49%)	SQL Server 2012
5	30 (10.38%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	26 (9.00%)	Data Warehouse
6	26 (9.00%)	SQL Server 2014
7	14 (4.84%)	SQL Server 2005
8	13 (4.50%)	QlikView
9	11 (3.81%)	MySQL
10	9 (3.11%)	BusinessObjects
10	9 (3.11%)	Hadoop
10	9 (3.11%)	Relational Database
11	7 (2.42%)	Big Data
11	7 (2.42%)	OLAP
12	6 (2.08%)	SQL Server 2000
13	5 (1.73%)	Apache Cassandra
13	5 (1.73%)	DTS
13	5 (1.73%)	OLTP
13	5 (1.73%)	Oracle Database

Development Applications
1	48 (16.61%)	Team Foundation Server
2	34 (11.76%)	Visual Studio
3	30 (10.38%)	Git (software)
4	14 (4.84%)	JIRA
5	10 (3.46%)	Subversion
6	9 (3.11%)	NUnit
7	8 (2.77%)	Jenkins
7	8 (2.77%)	Octopus Deploy
8	7 (2.42%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	7 (2.42%)	Cucumber
8	7 (2.42%)	Selenium
9	6 (2.08%)	Eclipse
9	6 (2.08%)	MorphX
10	5 (1.73%)	MSTest
11	3 (1.04%)	AccuRev
11	3 (1.04%)	Moq
11	3 (1.04%)	MSBuild
11	3 (1.04%)	Rational Application Developer
11	3 (1.04%)	SpecFlow
12	2 (0.69%)	TeamCity

General
1	29 (10.03%)	Finance
2	15 (5.19%)	Retail
3	11 (3.81%)	Banking
4	6 (2.08%)	Advertising
5	4 (1.38%)	Billing
5	4 (1.38%)	French Language
5	4 (1.38%)	Manufacturing
6	3 (1.04%)	Law
6	3 (1.04%)	Legal
7	2 (0.69%)	General Ledger
7	2 (0.69%)	Marketing
7	2 (0.69%)	Pharmaceutical
8	1 (0.35%)	Aerospace
8	1 (0.35%)	Automotive
8	1 (0.35%)	Spanish Language
8	1 (0.35%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	158 (54.67%)	Developer
2	80 (27.68%)	.NET Developer
3	37 (12.80%)	C# Developer
4	35 (12.11%)	SQL Developer
5	28 (9.69%)	ASP.NET Developer
5	28 (9.69%)	C# .NET Developer
6	21 (7.27%)	DBA
7	18 (6.23%)	Analyst
7	18 (6.23%)	SQL DBA
8	17 (5.88%)	SQL Server Developer
9	16 (5.54%)	Consultant
10	14 (4.84%)	Architect
10	14 (4.84%)	Full Stack Developer
11	13 (4.50%)	Business Intelligence Developer
12	12 (4.15%)	ETL Developer
13	10 (3.46%)	CRM Developer
13	10 (3.46%)	Java Developer
13	10 (3.46%)	SSIS Developer
14	9 (3.11%)	C# WCF Developer
14	9 (3.11%)	WCF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	147 (50.87%)	.NET
2	79 (27.34%)	ASP.NET
3	62 (21.45%)	HTML
4	50 (17.30%)	CSS
5	47 (16.26%)	.NET Framework
6	41 (14.19%)	XML
7	38 (13.15%)	AngularJS
8	35 (12.11%)	WCF
9	34 (11.76%)	Web Services
10	33 (11.42%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	33 (11.42%)	jQuery
11	32 (11.07%)	Entity Framework
12	27 (9.34%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	21 (7.27%)	HTML5
13	21 (7.27%)	JSON
14	19 (6.57%)	RESTful
15	15 (5.19%)	LINQ
16	14 (4.84%)	Twitter Bootstrap
16	14 (4.84%)	XSLT
17	12 (4.15%)	CSS3

Miscellaneous
1	16 (5.54%)	Analytical Skills
1	16 (5.54%)	Data Centre
2	14 (4.84%)	Clustering
3	11 (3.81%)	Greenfield Project
4	9 (3.11%)	NHS
5	5 (1.73%)	Enterprise Software
6	4 (1.38%)	Data Structures
7	3 (1.04%)	Management Information System
7	3 (1.04%)	Mobile App
7	3 (1.04%)	N-Tier
7	3 (1.04%)	Private Cloud
7	3 (1.04%)	Replication
8	2 (0.69%)	Linux Command Line
8	2 (0.69%)	Reference Data
8	2 (0.69%)	Tandem
8	2 (0.69%)	User Experience
8	2 (0.69%)	W3C
9	1 (0.35%)	CMDB
9	1 (0.35%)	Computer Science
9	1 (0.35%)	PKI

Operating Systems
1	71 (24.57%)	Windows
2	40 (13.84%)	Windows Server
3	15 (5.19%)	Windows Server 2012
4	13 (4.50%)	Windows Server 2008
5	12 (4.15%)	Linux
6	7 (2.42%)	Unix
6	7 (2.42%)	Windows Server 2003
7	5 (1.73%)	Windows 7
8	2 (0.69%)	Solaris
8	2 (0.69%)	Windows 10
8	2 (0.69%)	Windows 8
8	2 (0.69%)	Windows Vista
8	2 (0.69%)	Windows XP
9	1 (0.35%)	Android
9	1 (0.35%)	Apple iOS
9	1 (0.35%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	1 (0.35%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	81 (28.03%)	Agile Software Development
2	68 (23.53%)	MVC
3	49 (16.96%)	Business Intelligence
4	40 (13.84%)	TDD
5	37 (12.80%)	Migration
6	28 (9.69%)	ITIL
7	24 (8.30%)	ETL
8	21 (7.27%)	SDLC
9	18 (6.23%)	Performance Tuning
10	17 (5.88%)	High Availability
10	17 (5.88%)	Scrum
10	17 (5.88%)	SOLID
11	16 (5.54%)	CRM
12	15 (5.19%)	ERP
12	15 (5.19%)	OO
13	14 (4.84%)	Data Migration
14	13 (4.50%)	Continuous Integration
14	13 (4.50%)	Web Development
15	11 (3.81%)	Data Modelling
15	11 (3.81%)	Project Management

Programming Languages
1	154 (53.29%)	SQL
2	128 (44.29%)	C#
3	71 (24.57%)	JavaScript
4	55 (19.03%)	T-SQL
5	38 (13.15%)	Java
6	24 (8.30%)	PowerShell
7	19 (6.57%)	VB.NET
8	11 (3.81%)	Python
8	11 (3.81%)	VBScript
9	8 (2.77%)	PHP
10	7 (2.42%)	VB
11	6 (2.08%)	X++
12	5 (1.73%)	Bash Shell
12	5 (1.73%)	C
13	4 (1.38%)	C++
13	4 (1.38%)	PL/SQL
14	2 (0.69%)	Perl
14	2 (0.69%)	Shell Script
14	2 (0.69%)	VB6
14	2 (0.69%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	28 (9.69%)	Microsoft Certification
2	17 (5.88%)	MCSE
3	15 (5.19%)	Degree
4	9 (3.11%)	MCSA
5	8 (2.77%)	Security Cleared
6	4 (1.38%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
7	3 (1.04%)	Citrix Certification
8	2 (0.69%)	BC Cleared
8	2 (0.69%)	CCA
8	2 (0.69%)	CCNA
8	2 (0.69%)	CCNP
8	2 (0.69%)	Cisco Certification
8	2 (0.69%)	ISTQB
8	2 (0.69%)	MCDBA
8	2 (0.69%)	MCITP
8	2 (0.69%)	MCP
8	2 (0.69%)	OCP
8	2 (0.69%)	Oracle Certification
8	2 (0.69%)	SC Cleared
8	2 (0.69%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (3.11%)	QA
2	8 (2.77%)	Data Quality
3	5 (1.73%)	GDPR
3	5 (1.73%)	PCI DSS
4	4 (1.38%)	SLA
5	3 (1.04%)	IFRS
5	3 (1.04%)	IFRS 9
6	2 (0.69%)	ISO 8583
7	1 (0.35%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.35%)	MiFID

System Software
1	30 (10.38%)	Active Directory
2	19 (6.57%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	9 (3.11%)	Hyper-V
4	7 (2.42%)	VMware ESXi
5	6 (2.08%)	XenApp
6	4 (1.38%)	Microsoft App-V
7	3 (1.04%)	HDFS
8	2 (0.69%)	Virtual Desktop
9	1 (0.35%)	Docker
9	1 (0.35%)	Virtual Machines
9	1 (0.35%)	Virtual Servers

Systems Management
1	9 (3.11%)	SCCM
2	5 (1.73%)	Microsoft Clustering
2	5 (1.73%)	Opscode Chef
3	4 (1.38%)	Ansible
3	4 (1.38%)	Data Guard
3	4 (1.38%)	Failover Clustering
3	4 (1.38%)	Oracle RMAN
4	3 (1.04%)	Hadoop YARN
5	2 (0.69%)	AirWatch
5	2 (0.69%)	BladeLogic
5	2 (0.69%)	HP Quality Center
5	2 (0.69%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5	2 (0.69%)	Microsoft Intune
5	2 (0.69%)	OpenView
5	2 (0.69%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
5	2 (0.69%)	Puppet
5	2 (0.69%)	Salt
6	1 (0.35%)	Backup Exec
6	1 (0.35%)	EMC Navisphere
6	1 (0.35%)	Nagios

Vendors
1	139 (48.10%)	Microsoft
2	40 (13.84%)	Oracle
3	25 (8.65%)	VMware
4	18 (6.23%)	SAP
5	16 (5.54%)	Citrix
6	7 (2.42%)	Cisco
7	6 (2.08%)	HP
7	6 (2.08%)	IBM
7	6 (2.08%)	Infor
7	6 (2.08%)	Salesforce.com
8	5 (1.73%)	JD Edwards
9	4 (1.38%)	Adobe
9	4 (1.38%)	Atlassian
9	4 (1.38%)	Tableau
10	3 (1.04%)	BMC
10	3 (1.04%)	Dell
10	3 (1.04%)	Reuters
11	2 (0.69%)	EMC
11	2 (0.69%)	Forcepoint
11	2 (0.69%)	Red Hat