SQL Server Contracts in Ipswich

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing SQL Server 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 5.71% 10.26% 2.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 100.00% 33.33% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile - £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £394 £481
90th Percentile - £398 £515
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £375 £463
% change year-on-year +33.33% -18.92% +5.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 5.71% 30.77% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile - £299 £313
25th Percentile - £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £319 £500
Median % change year-on-year +56.99% -36.30% -21.88%
75th Percentile - £388 £700
90th Percentile - £393 -
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -20.95%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Ipswich

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Express.js
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) MediatR
2 1 (50.00%) NgRx
2 1 (50.00%) RxJS
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft