SQL Server Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring SQL Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 2.46% 4.55% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 75.00% 16.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -24.00% -16.67%
South East median daily rate £350 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 4 18 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 3.28% 27.27% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 10
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile - £380 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -4.39% -18.84%
75th Percentile - £544 £538
90th Percentile - £638 £553
South East median daily rate £460 £500 £536
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.67% +7.15%

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
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing SQL Server

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 3 September 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 +6 3 £450 +18.42% 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Database Security
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL