SQL Server Contracts in Reading

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 50 68 69
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -42
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 1.93% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.51% 12.37% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 15
10th Percentile £537 £320 £403
25th Percentile £564 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £528 £563
90th Percentile - £590 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £517 £506 £485
% change year-on-year +2.12% +4.38% -4.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 186 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.40% 15.60% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 98 116
10th Percentile £407 £353 £379
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £595
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.10
25th Percentile - £61.60 £61.75
Median hourly rate - £64.55 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - -14.50% +235.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £79.19
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%

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 1 May 2025.

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 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure API Management
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) SSDT
2 2 (20.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) YAML
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) ADO
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 3 (30.00%) B2B
3 3 (30.00%) B2C
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) RBAC
3 3 (30.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Cartography
4 2 (20.00%) System Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) UiPath
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy