SSDT Contracts in England

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SSDT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSDT 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 482 540 649
Rank change year-on-year +58 +109 +121
Contract jobs citing SSDT 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.005% 0.008%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.065% 0.032% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £625 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -15.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £675 - £556
90th Percentile - - £598
UK median daily rate £650 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +62.50% -15.79% -26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

SSDT 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SSDT in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SSDT in England

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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 SSDT 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
South East - 3 £650 -
SSDT
UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) UiPath