SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Newport

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 3.08% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £410 £167 £413
% change year-on-year +145.41% -59.50% -21.43%

All Database & BI Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 10.77% 6.67% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £521 £313
25th Percentile £363 £534 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £563 £413
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £436 £584 £463
90th Percentile £467 £594 £508
South Wales median daily rate £410 £381 £500
% change year-on-year +7.54% -23.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £25.23 -
25th Percentile £82.50 £25.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £25.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +228.95% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £26.19 -
90th Percentile - £26.38 -
South Wales median hourly rate £32.50 £25.84 -
% change year-on-year +25.77% - -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Newport

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware