SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Luton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 3.32% - 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.92% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.93%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile £645 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 - £375
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Database & BI Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 26 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 12.32% 14.66% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 7
10th Percentile £413 - £420
25th Percentile £460 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £585 -
90th Percentile - £600 £524
Bedfordshire median daily rate £575 £580 £450
% change year-on-year -0.86% +28.89% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.74 - -
25th Percentile £34.28 - -
Median hourly rate £43.55 - -
75th Percentile £52.78 - -
90th Percentile £58.31 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £43.55 - -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Luton

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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 6 (85.71%) CMS
1 6 (85.71%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 6 (85.71%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
1 6 (85.71%) AngularJS
1 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
1 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET Core
1 6 (85.71%) CSS
1 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) jQuery
1 6 (85.71%) Node.js
1 6 (85.71%) React
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Front End Development
2 6 (85.71%) Personalization
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (85.71%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Sitecore
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Talend
SQL Server jobs