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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.73% 0.79% 2.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 5.26% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 £463 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £285
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -36.67%
75th Percentile £513 £488 £409
90th Percentile £528 - £516
South West median daily rate £513 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +4.88%

All Database & BI 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 18 38 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.39% 15.08% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 43
10th Percentile £451 £350 £455
25th Percentile £478 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £670 £672 £656
90th Percentile £750 £707 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £48.10 -
25th Percentile - £66.25 -
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +133.33% -61.54%
75th Percentile - - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% +133.33% -54.55%

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 12 August 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 £525 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ODBC
1 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle