SQL Server Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 49 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 19 40 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.40% 3.02% 4.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.08% 21.98% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 48
10th Percentile - £400 £348
25th Percentile £450 £456 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £556
90th Percentile £625 £668 £614
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - -
Median hourly rate £20.71 - -
75th Percentile £21.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.71 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 126 182 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.89% 13.73% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 135 211
10th Percentile £394 £413 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +15.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £460
% change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.68
25th Percentile £19.44 - £20.70
Median hourly rate £20.71 - £22.40
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £21.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.71 - £22.40
% change year-on-year - - -7.75%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Leeds over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) Akamai
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) QlikView
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) GitLab
2 5 (26.32%) Git
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (21.05%) AppScan
3 4 (21.05%) Burp Suite
3 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
4 2 (10.53%) Subversion
5 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 5 (26.32%) SQL BI Developer
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Site Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Environment Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Information Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (31.58%) Project Management
5 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Waterfall
6 4 (21.05%) Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) Change Control
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) OWASP
6 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Product Requirements
7 3 (15.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (26.32%) Progress Chef
1 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
1 5 (26.32%) Puppet
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Grafana
2 4 (21.05%) Graylog
2 4 (21.05%) HP Fortify
2 4 (21.05%) Nessus
2 4 (21.05%) WebInspect
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Checkmarx
2 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 4 (21.05%) Veracode
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ForgeRock
4 1 (5.26%) iManage
4 1 (5.26%) Intapp
4 1 (5.26%) Zscaler