SQL Server Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 75 88 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 -41 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 24 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.75% 1.26% 4.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 20.69% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 63
10th Percentile £417 £343 £250
25th Percentile £442 £375 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £528 £571 £550
90th Percentile £538 £655 £600
England median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile - £22.75 £25.63
Median hourly rate - £24.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - -18.33% -34.25%
75th Percentile - £26.25 £33.13
90th Percentile - - £34.25
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 6.08% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 172
10th Percentile £327 £303 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £552 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £19.84 £16.15 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%
75th Percentile £65.63 £33.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.40 £68.33
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 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
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 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
Cambridgeshire +7 3 £488 +2.63% 23
Essex - 2 £530 - 14
Hertfordshire +20 1 - - 18
Norfolk +2 1 - - 8
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Cohesity
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) Skype
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) IFS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase