SQL Server Contracts in Norfolk

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Norfolk 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Norfolk 9.59% 1.79% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.93% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £494 £388 -
90th Percentile £498 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.75 - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 27 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 36.99% 12.50% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 2
10th Percentile £272 £277 -
25th Percentile - £303 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £307 £300
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +2.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £500 £388 £325
90th Percentile £501 £440 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £20.80 £13.83 -
25th Percentile £20.86 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £21.08 £22.38 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% - -
75th Percentile £21.39 £28.06 -
90th Percentile £21.52 £31.33 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £15.49 £63.00
% change year-on-year +104.26% -75.41% +80.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Norfolk

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Norfolk

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Norfolk

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Norwich 0 6 £475 +26.67% 7
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) RS-232
2 1 (14.29%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Support
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Security
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Data Sharing
2 2 (28.57%) Security Patching
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) HNC
1 2 (28.57%) HND
1 2 (28.57%) MCP
1 2 (28.57%) MCSE
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Teradata
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix