SQL Server Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 8 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.56% 4.94% 3.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 32.00% 25.37% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 12
10th Percentile £162 £403 -
25th Percentile £254 £425 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £650 £388
Median % change year-on-year -55.38% +67.74% -13.89%
75th Percentile £388 £693 £528
90th Percentile - £700 £566
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -7.50% +8.70% +22.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 25 67 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.11% 19.48% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 56 48
10th Percentile £115 £248 £263
25th Percentile £181 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +128.26%
75th Percentile £484 £626 £638
90th Percentile £494 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.23
Median hourly rate - - £9.46
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.47%
75th Percentile - - £9.81
90th Percentile - - £9.87
North West median hourly rate £44.74 £49.57 £31.00
% change year-on-year -9.74% +59.90% +32.08%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Merseyside over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Merseyside

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool +9 8 £290 -47.27% 10
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft