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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 79 63
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 -35
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.65% 1.36% 2.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.33% 9.04% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 20
10th Percentile £537 £313 £411
25th Percentile £564 £366 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +37.33% -16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £675 £528 £614
90th Percentile - £575 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £517 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.89% -10.00% -

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 73 177 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.37% 15.05% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 94 100
10th Percentile £457 £313 £400
25th Percentile £502 £416 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - - £61.75
25th Percentile - - £71.31
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £77.35
Median % change year-on-year - -20.36% +243.76%
75th Percentile - £66.03 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £47.90 £61.60 £75.50
% change year-on-year -22.24% -18.41% +79.76%

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 31 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) SSDT
2 2 (22.22%) GIS
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) YAML
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
1 2 (22.22%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Secure Coding
3 3 (33.33%) B2B
3 3 (33.33%) B2C
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) RBAC
3 3 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Cartography
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) UiPath
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) Remedy