SQL Server Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 3.57% 3.95% 5.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.75% 33.33% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile £163 £162 £404
25th Percentile £174 £254 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £290 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% -55.38% +100.00%
75th Percentile £223 £388 £688
90th Percentile £321 - £700
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +9.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 32 27 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 19.05% 11.84% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 56
10th Percentile £208 £115 £325
25th Percentile £456 £191 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.34% -27.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £480 £626
90th Percentile £663 £494 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +2 3 £175 -39.66% 37
Prescot - 3 £215 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Internet
2 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Support
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Android
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) BCP
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Insurtech
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Telematics
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Apple