SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.03% 2.12% 5.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.05% 16.00% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £434 - £370
25th Percentile £459 £163 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £175 £450
Median % change year-on-year +185.71% -61.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £318 £500
90th Percentile - £396 £530
Merseyside median daily rate £500 £215 £450
% change year-on-year +132.56% -52.22% -5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 21 25 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 10.66% 13.23% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 20
10th Percentile £306 £163 £324
25th Percentile £391 £191 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £365 £519
Median % change year-on-year +19.86% -29.64% -1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £468 £563
90th Percentile £572 £638 £588
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £333 £513
% change year-on-year +31.58% -35.12% +7.89%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Liverpool

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Capita
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft