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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL Server	118	Down -7 places-7	£488	-2.50%	1,021 2.23%	675
SQL Server DBA	605	Down -108 places-108	£400	+6.66%	28 0.061%	5
SQL Server Developer	621	Down -125 places-125	£450	-	12 0.026%	4
Windows Server 2008	613	Down -127 places-127	£525	-9.67%	20 0.044%	11
SQL Server Architect	623	Down -123 places-123	£620	-	10 0.022%
Senior SQL Server DBA	632	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.002%	2
SQL Server Consultant	629	New entry-	£575	-	4 0.009%
SQL Server BI Developer	629	New entry-	-	-	4 0.009%
SQL Server Analysis Services	590	Down -104 places-104	£500	-6.97%	43 0.094%	23
Oracle SQL Server DBA	630	Down -130 places-130	£450	-20.77%	3 0.007%
SQL Server Reporting Services	541	Down -118 places-118	£500	+12.04%	92 0.20%	82
SQL Server Integration Services	479	Down -85 places-85	£475	-8.65%	155 0.34%	80
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)	611	Down -121 places-121	£431	-8.73%	22 0.048%	8
SQL	17	Down -4 places-4	£500	-	4,486 9.81%	3,412
Windows Server 2003	622	Down -160 places-160	£492	-14.41%	11 0.024%	5
Server Engineer	573	Down -102 places-102	£450	-4.00%	60 0.13%	8
ISA Server	632	Down -143 places-143	£650	+8.33%	1 0.002%
Server Support	628	Down -130 places-130	£425	+70.68%	5 0.011%
Serverless	149	Down -34 places-34	£525	-	848 1.85%	411
SQL Server Reporting Services Developer (SSRS Developer)	632	Down -132 places-132	£325	-38.09%	1 0.002%
SQL Server Integration Services Analyst (SSIS Analyst)	632	New entry-	£375	-	1 0.002%
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)	632	New entry-	-	-	1 0.002%