SQL Server Contracts in Northampton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 21 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 3.25% 7.87% 2.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.33% 34.48% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £262 £416 £244
25th Percentile £266 - £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% -1.11% -
75th Percentile £300 £490 £500
90th Percentile £355 £499 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £269 £445 £450
% change year-on-year -39.55% -1.11% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 30 29 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 24.39% 22.83% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £275 £355 £263
25th Percentile £326 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £488 £490 £431
90th Percentile £537 £507 £500
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £14.00 -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Northampton

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Northampton

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Northampton

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Introscope
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) Mockito
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) Redux
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Business Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) Veracode
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle