SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 1.18% - 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.00% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -50.00%
75th Percentile - - £288
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median daily rate £520 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 5.88% 18.02% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 31
10th Percentile - £373 £465
25th Percentile £210 £388 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year -52.69% -19.13% +4.55%
75th Percentile £338 £500 £600
90th Percentile £447 £600 £675
Devon median daily rate £250 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -44.44% -21.74% +4.55%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Exeter

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Database Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft