SQL Server Contracts in Reading

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 61 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 -30 +20
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 22 21 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.90% 2.07% 5.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.22% 12.88% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 72
10th Percentile £318 £408 £363
25th Percentile £400 £466 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £583 £539
90th Percentile £564 £700 £674
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% +11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 180 163 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.52% 16.09% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 106 192
10th Percentile £322 £398 £350
25th Percentile £425 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.53% +2.05%
75th Percentile £675 £593 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £674
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 1
10th Percentile - £53.10 -
25th Percentile - £61.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £75.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.41% +235.56% -48.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £72.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.33% +223.33% -48.28%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Reading over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Reading

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Jadu
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Azure API Management
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Functions
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) FTP
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) French Language
3 1 (4.55%) Italian Language
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Marketing
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Database Specialist
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Integration Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) DBA
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) ETL Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) ETL Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Informatica Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) PHP Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 5 (22.73%) ARM Templates
3 4 (18.18%) SOAP
4 3 (13.64%) JSON
4 3 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (13.64%) OpenID
4 3 (13.64%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) XML
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (9.09%) CSS
5 2 (9.09%) HTML
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.55%) LAMP
6 1 (4.55%) MDX
6 1 (4.55%) RESTful
6 1 (4.55%) Symfony
6 1 (4.55%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps
1 6 (27.27%) OO
2 5 (22.73%) Application Security
2 5 (22.73%) B2C
2 5 (22.73%) Break/Fix
2 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) ETL
4 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Revenue Assurance
4 3 (13.64%) Scrum
4 3 (13.64%) SOLID
5 2 (9.09%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.55%) F#
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Graylog
2 1 (4.55%) Nagios
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk