MSDE Contracts in England

Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MSDE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSDE 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 483 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSDE 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.043% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 - -
75th Percentile £309 - -
90th Percentile £316 - -
UK median daily rate £298 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

MSDE 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MSDE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MSDE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MSDE in England

MSDE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MSDE in England.

Daily rate trend for MSDE in England

MSDE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MSDE in England.

Hourly rate trend for MSDE in England

MSDE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSDE within the 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
North West - 2 £298 -
North of England - 2 £298 -
MSDE
UK

MSDE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) DTS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Perfmon
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware