SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Leatherhead

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Surrey > Leatherhead

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leatherhead requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leatherhead 7.41% - 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 100.00% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £468 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £450
75th Percentile £503 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median daily rate £493 £500 £609
% change year-on-year -1.50% -17.86% +28.16%

All Database & BI Skills
Leatherhead

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 Leatherhead.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2 5 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leatherhead 7.41% 15.63% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £440 -
25th Percentile £468 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +11.76% -29.17%
75th Percentile £503 £488 £475
90th Percentile - - £501
Surrey median daily rate £475 £460 £469
% change year-on-year +3.26% -1.87% -9.86%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leatherhead

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Leatherhead

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Leatherhead

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leatherhead 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Imperva
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Okta
1 1 (50.00%) Proofpoint
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler