SQL Server Contracts in East Sussex

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 15 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 5 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 4.39% 9.41% 7.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 45.45% 42.11% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £306 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -41.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £497 £550 £913
90th Percentile £581 £603 £975
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 9.65% 22.35% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 13
10th Percentile £373 £306 £470
25th Percentile - £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -18.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £545 £650
90th Percentile £656 £608 £925
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in East Sussex

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in East Sussex

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in East Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in East Sussex

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in East Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in East Sussex

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Brighton -2 5 £450 +44.00% 29
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (40.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Database Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Database Security
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Rackspace