SQL Server Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 67 59
Rank change year-on-year +24 -8 -32
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 35 29 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.97% 2.05% 3.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.02% 12.24% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 47
10th Percentile £363 £396 £370
25th Percentile £400 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% - +3.26%
75th Percentile £547 £522 £556
90th Percentile £592 £750 £594
North West median daily rate £431 £475 £469
% change year-on-year -9.21% +1.33% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £41.00
% change year-on-year +78.65% +12.63% -45.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 184 237 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 20.86% 16.77% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 185 217
10th Percentile £372 £368 £345
25th Percentile £407 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £575
90th Percentile £614 £670 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £38.45
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +30.95% -
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 £65.25
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £40.80
% change year-on-year -40.16% +4.18% +8.79%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Entra ID
2 11 (31.43%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (28.57%) IaaS
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.86%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Firewall
1 11 (31.43%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (31.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.71%) MySQL
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.71%) Tableau
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.86%) ERwin
2 1 (2.86%) Flyway
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Telecoms
3 9 (25.71%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Back Office
7 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) .NET Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Backend Developer
6 2 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Senior DBA
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) REST
2 6 (17.14%) SOAP
3 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) Spring
3 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.71%) AWS CDK
4 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.86%) Blazor
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Java EE
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) Shiny
5 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Derivative
1 6 (17.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Credit Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 11 (31.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (20.00%) Linux
4 6 (17.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (31.43%) Business Continuity
2 11 (31.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 10 (28.57%) Change Management
3 10 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.86%) BCP
5 8 (22.86%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (22.86%) High Availability
5 8 (22.86%) Information Security
5 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
5 8 (22.86%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Line Management
6 7 (20.00%) Web Operations
7 6 (17.14%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 11 (31.43%) PowerShell
3 9 (25.71%) Python
4 4 (11.43%) C#
4 4 (11.43%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Azure Certification
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Basel III
1 6 (17.14%) MiFID
2 4 (11.43%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (31.43%) Active Directory
1 11 (31.43%) vSphere
2 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (31.43%) VMware
3 10 (28.57%) Oracle
4 6 (17.14%) Sybase
5 2 (5.71%) Databricks
6 1 (2.86%) Brio
6 1 (2.86%) Informatica
6 1 (2.86%) Talend