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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.84% 4.35% 8.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 40.00% 50.00% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 25
10th Percentile - - £338
25th Percentile £525 £575 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £640 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +31.28% +30.00%
75th Percentile £575 £788 £588
90th Percentile - - £638
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.85 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.37% +272.09% -2.27%

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 10 18 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 4.61% 8.70% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 39
10th Percentile £475 £300 £337
25th Percentile £500 £438 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £675 £649 £591
90th Percentile £690 £788 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £20.84 - -
25th Percentile £33.59 - -
Median hourly rate £58.91 - -
75th Percentile £62.96 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Kent

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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) Blazor
1 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) SysML
1 2 (50.00%) UML
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 12207