SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire 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 77 66 77
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -48
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 15 19
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.47% 1.53% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.04% 19.23% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £258 £408 £309
25th Percentile £363 £449 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £588 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +14.63% -1.20%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £591
90th Percentile £548 £644 £620
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £60.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £22.40 £58.16
% change year-on-year +117.50% -61.49% +61.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 119 78 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 9.39% 7.95% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 59 101
10th Percentile £313 £357 £425
25th Percentile £375 £388 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -15.42% -
75th Percentile £548 £625 £640
90th Percentile £650 £678 £738
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile - - £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.61%
75th Percentile £46.29 - £52.38
90th Percentile £50.06 - £63.75
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +125.63%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Hampshire

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth - 2 £550 - 8
Southampton +3 1 £530 - 9
Fleet -6 1 £447 -22.26%
Fareham - 1 £375 - 3
Winchester - 1 £200 - 1
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Cartography
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Security
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) OCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Acronis
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) VMware