SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 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 55 43 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.26% 1.82% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 7.95% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +4.76%
South West median daily rate £535 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +4.39% -10.87% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
South West median hourly rate £75.00 - £57.28
% change year-on-year - - +43.19%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 53 88 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.87% 22.92% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 32
10th Percentile £425 £450 £413
25th Percentile £525 £531 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £700
90th Percentile £750 £1,075 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -1.18% -7.61% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - - £23.85
25th Percentile - - £43.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -60.00% -
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £79.80
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £49.34
% change year-on-year +127.57% -42.11% -13.23%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Gloucester -15 1 - - 4
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Universal Windows Platform
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL