SQL Server Contracts in Kent

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.48% 2.79% 4.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.00% 71.43% 69.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - £153 -
25th Percentile £538 £154 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £157 £550
Median % change year-on-year +250.13% -71.44% +19.57%
75th Percentile £563 £345 £600
90th Percentile - £458 £624
South East median daily rate £350 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.65 -
South East median hourly rate - £38.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -26.67% -2.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 3.70% 3.91% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £290 £154 £500
25th Percentile £313 £156 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.14% -20.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £563 £533 £619
90th Percentile - £641 £638
South East median daily rate £460 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.65 -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £51.59 £50.00
% change year-on-year -53.48% +3.18% +122.22%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Chatham - 2 £550 - 2
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware