SQL Server Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -31
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 36 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.99% 2.15% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.11% 32.14% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 26
10th Percentile £237 £425 £263
25th Percentile £310 £556 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £600
90th Percentile - £706 £663
South East median daily rate £438 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.91 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +30.90% -2.70%

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 111 112 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.18% 6.69% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 77
10th Percentile £402 £358 £289
25th Percentile £463 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.19%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £619
90th Percentile £668 £688 £639
South East median daily rate £475 £482 £525
% change year-on-year -1.45% -8.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 21
10th Percentile - £40.25 £21.05
25th Percentile - £48.13 £45.63
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +30.20%
75th Percentile - £76.25 £73.75
90th Percentile - £78.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £48.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.19% -12.40% +144.44%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Hampshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Hampshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Hampshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Hampshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Hampshire

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 21 July 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
Basingstoke +20 6 £675 +63.64% 9
Winchester +10 2 £200 -57.45% 3
Hook - 1 £320 -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Confluence
1 3 (33.33%) Drupal
1 3 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
1 3 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (33.33%) PHP Software Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Ajax
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) jQuery
1 3 (33.33%) LAMP
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Code
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Kanban
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
3 3 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Zend
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds