SQL Server Contracts in England

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1,230 2,173 3,580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.36% 4.42% 5.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.85% 24.74% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 1,671 2,744
10th Percentile £350 £363 £351
25th Percentile £413 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 40
10th Percentile £36.84 £25.50 £20.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £33.70 £22.06
Median hourly rate £40.13 £43.50 £51.28
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% -15.17% +83.13%
75th Percentile £50.47 £70.00 £64.14
90th Percentile £62.96 £85.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -7.22% +79.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,195 8,784 14,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.95% 17.86% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,459 6,321 10,229
10th Percentile £356 £375 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £546
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.10% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 167 177
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £56.40 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.63% +25.33% +80.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +66.79%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in England

SQL Server
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 SQL Server within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
London +2 820 £535 -6.96% 374
North of England -21 107 £475 -5.00% 205
South East -57 103 £469 -6.25% 161
Midlands -6 77 £463 +8.82% 186
South West -18 71 £550 +4.76% 98
North West -16 70 £475 -2.01% 112
West Midlands -7 42 £525 +1.69% 112
East Midlands +6 31 £445 +11.25% 74
Yorkshire -11 27 £450 -10.00% 66
East of England -40 24 £475 +5.56% 64
North East +14 10 £475 -5.00% 28
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
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 66 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.68%) IIS
3 28 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.63%) Apache
4 20 (1.63%) CMS
4 20 (1.63%) Confluence
5 15 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.73%) nginx
7 8 (0.65%) SAS
7 8 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.57%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.49%) JBoss
9 6 (0.49%) Tornado
10 5 (0.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 65 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) CATIA
5 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.081%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.30%) Endur
3 15 (1.22%) Teamcenter
4 10 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.65%) DELMIA
6 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.33%) OPENHousing
8 3 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
9 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.16%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.081%) Epicor Tropos
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Retail
10 1 (0.081%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 582 (47.32%) Azure
2 262 (21.30%) Azure DevOps
3 204 (16.59%) Power Platform
4 149 (12.11%) AWS
5 91 (7.40%) Entra ID
6 82 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 76 (6.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 76 (6.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 59 (4.80%) GitHub
10 57 (4.63%) Serverless
11 56 (4.55%) PowerApps
12 53 (4.31%) Power Automate
13 49 (3.98%) Azure Functions
13 49 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
14 39 (3.17%) PaaS
15 33 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 27 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (2.20%) Snowflake
17 26 (2.11%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.07%) Firewall
2 39 (3.17%) DNS
3 29 (2.36%) SAN
4 21 (1.71%) DHCP
5 20 (1.63%) WAN
6 19 (1.54%) Internet
7 18 (1.46%) LAN
8 15 (1.22%) NAS
9 13 (1.06%) FTP
10 12 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.73%) Wireless
12 8 (0.65%) MPLS
12 8 (0.65%) VPN
13 7 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.57%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.49%) SSL
15 5 (0.41%) Network Security
15 5 (0.41%) SSH
15 5 (0.41%) VLAN
16 4 (0.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (14.72%) Power BI
2 137 (11.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 129 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 93 (7.56%) MySQL
6 90 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 89 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
8 58 (4.72%) NoSQL
9 57 (4.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 50 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 47 (3.82%) Oracle Database
12 45 (3.66%) Metadata
13 37 (3.01%) Data Lake
14 34 (2.76%) RDBMS
15 33 (2.68%) MongoDB
16 30 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 28 (2.28%) Tableau
18 26 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
19 24 (1.95%) Big Data
20 20 (1.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 128 (10.41%) Git
2 69 (5.61%) JIRA
3 53 (4.31%) Visual Studio
4 43 (3.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 40 (3.25%) SpecFlow
6 32 (2.60%) Selenium
7 29 (2.36%) TeamCity
8 27 (2.20%) Jenkins
9 25 (2.03%) GitLab
10 16 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 15 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (1.14%) WebDriver
13 12 (0.98%) JMeter
14 10 (0.81%) ERwin
14 10 (0.81%) NUnit
15 9 (0.73%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.73%) Visual Studio Team System
16 8 (0.65%) Postman
16 8 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 266 (21.63%) Finance
2 264 (21.46%) Social Skills
3 136 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (9.67%) Banking
5 115 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 49 (3.98%) Back Office
7 36 (2.93%) Front Office
8 30 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 30 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 25 (2.03%) Marketing
10 24 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.54%) Local Government
14 18 (1.46%) Retail
15 16 (1.30%) Electronics
16 14 (1.14%) Publishing
17 10 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.81%) Legal
18 8 (0.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 500 (40.65%) Developer
2 195 (15.85%) Senior
3 134 (10.89%) Senior Developer
4 124 (10.08%) C# Developer
5 111 (9.02%) .NET Developer
6 86 (6.99%) Architect
7 85 (6.91%) Analyst
8 82 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 65 (5.28%) Software Developer
10 62 (5.04%) DBA
11 59 (4.80%) Lead
12 56 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 54 (4.39%) Azure Developer
14 52 (4.23%) SQL Developer
15 48 (3.90%) Senior Software Developer
16 46 (3.74%) SQL DBA
17 45 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
18 43 (3.50%) C# .NET Developer
19 42 (3.41%) Backend Developer
19 42 (3.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (32.36%) .NET
2 154 (12.52%) XML
3 141 (11.46%) .NET Core
4 125 (10.16%) .NET Framework
5 115 (9.35%) HTML
6 98 (7.97%) ASP.NET
7 96 (7.80%) AngularJS
8 86 (6.99%) CSS
9 82 (6.67%) React
10 57 (4.63%) Web Services
11 55 (4.47%) REST
12 44 (3.58%) JSON
13 42 (3.41%) Kafka
14 41 (3.33%) Entity Framework
15 38 (3.09%) SOAP
16 35 (2.85%) RESTful
16 35 (2.85%) WCF
17 33 (2.68%) jQuery
18 30 (2.44%) ARM Templates
18 30 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.12%) Product Ownership
2 53 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 44 (3.58%) Replication
4 41 (3.33%) Clustering
5 27 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.79%) Hedge funds
8 21 (1.71%) Client/Server
8 21 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 21 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.54%) Derivative
10 17 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.22%) PKI
12 14 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
14 12 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
15 11 (0.89%) Contactless
15 11 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 234 (19.02%) Windows
2 119 (9.67%) Windows Server
3 112 (9.11%) Linux
4 52 (4.23%) Unix
5 46 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 43 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.87%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (0.98%) Android
11 11 (0.89%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (0.73%) VMS
12 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.65%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.57%) zOS
15 5 (0.41%) CentOS
15 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (33.17%) Agile
2 371 (30.16%) DevOps
3 214 (17.40%) Business Intelligence
4 188 (15.28%) CI/CD
5 185 (15.04%) Scrum
6 176 (14.31%) Migration
7 165 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (12.68%) ETL
9 135 (10.98%) Data Modelling
10 118 (9.59%) TDD
11 93 (7.56%) OO
12 82 (6.67%) Software Engineering
13 78 (6.34%) SDLC
14 76 (6.18%) Data Analysis
14 76 (6.18%) MVC
15 75 (6.10%) Analytics
16 72 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
17 70 (5.69%) B2C
17 70 (5.69%) Data Migration
18 66 (5.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 641 (52.11%) SQL
2 475 (38.62%) C#
3 247 (20.08%) PowerShell
4 153 (12.44%) JavaScript
5 137 (11.14%) Python
6 129 (10.49%) T-SQL
7 112 (9.11%) Java
8 97 (7.89%) Bicep
9 77 (6.26%) PL/SQL
10 56 (4.55%) TypeScript
11 28 (2.28%) VBA
12 26 (2.11%) Bash
13 21 (1.71%) C
14 20 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (1.54%) VB
16 18 (1.46%) Shell Script
16 18 (1.46%) VB.NET
17 14 (1.14%) C++
17 14 (1.14%) PHP
18 10 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 169 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 128 (10.41%) Degree
3 98 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 41 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 10 (0.81%) MCSE
9 8 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.65%) MCITP
9 8 (0.65%) MCTS
10 6 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.41%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.33%) CISSP
12 4 (0.33%) ISEB
13 3 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 2 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.97%) QA
2 50 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.95%) WCAG
5 14 (1.14%) GDPR
6 13 (1.06%) SLA
7 12 (0.98%) MiFID
8 6 (0.49%) EMIR
9 5 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 3 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.16%) NIST
12 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 250 (20.33%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.50%) Docker
4 21 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.54%) IAG
6 17 (1.38%) ACF2
6 17 (1.38%) RACF
7 12 (0.98%) vSphere
8 9 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.65%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (0.33%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.081%) Firmware
13 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.081%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.081%) vCloud
13 1 (0.081%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 51 (4.15%) Terraform
3 46 (3.74%) Ansible
4 36 (2.93%) SCCM
5 29 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 19 (1.54%) Puppet
9 16 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.14%) Grafana
11 13 (1.06%) Nagios
11 13 (1.06%) Prometheus
12 11 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.81%) Nessus
14 9 (0.73%) Graylog
14 9 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.65%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.49%) Data Guard
16 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 489 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 268 (21.79%) Oracle
3 72 (5.85%) VMware
4 48 (3.90%) Databricks
4 48 (3.90%) SAP
5 40 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 32 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 31 (2.52%) Veeam
8 30 (2.44%) Sybase
9 29 (2.36%) Informatica
10 26 (2.11%) Citrix
11 18 (1.46%) Sparx
11 18 (1.46%) Splunk
12 16 (1.30%) Cisco
13 15 (1.22%) CyberArk
14 13 (1.06%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.98%) CA
15 12 (0.98%) IBM
16 11 (0.89%) HP
16 11 (0.89%) Qualys