SQL Server Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 18 35 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 13 9 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 7.51% 2.31% 6.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.89% 14.75% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 44
10th Percentile £325 £365 £333
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £478
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.99% +27.33%
75th Percentile £540 £488 £533
90th Percentile £546 £545 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% +1.05%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 45 61 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 26.01% 15.64% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 76
10th Percentile £303 £350 £363
25th Percentile £334 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -10.63% +0.70%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £625
90th Percentile £615 £613 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £22.61 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £23.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.38% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.95 -
90th Percentile - £51.08 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £24.00 £23.82 -
% change year-on-year +0.75% - -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Milton Keynes

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Impala
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) QARun
1 2 (15.38%) WinRunner
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) Blazor
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) WCF
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (7.69%) EDI
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) WinForms
3 1 (7.69%) WPF
3 1 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Waterfall
3 2 (15.38%) Data Management
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Logistics
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) VB
4 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) SAP