MSDE Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring MSDE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MSDE 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 164 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MSDE 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 - -
75th Percentile £309 - -
90th Percentile £316 - -
England median daily rate £298 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

MSDE 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

MSDE
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing MSDE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for MSDE in the North of England

MSDE
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSDE within the North of England 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
North West - 2 £298 -
MSDE
England

MSDE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) GIS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) DTS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Perfmon
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware