SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -28 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.77% 1.85% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 8.33% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.87% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £463 £356 £500
% change year-on-year +29.92% -28.80% +11.73%

All Database & BI Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 60 24 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 23.17% 22.22% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 2
10th Percentile £328 £342 £614
25th Percentile £358 £356 £617
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £360 £628
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -42.63% +34.08%
75th Percentile £476 £424 £636
90th Percentile £551 £496 £637
Cheshire median daily rate £449 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -9.60% +4.45% -2.01%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Knutsford

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Knutsford over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Knutsford

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle