SQL Server Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 3.03% 0.70% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.00% 3.03% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £429 - £294
25th Percentile £443 - £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £510 £356
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +43.16% -25.39%
75th Percentile £518 - £402
90th Percentile £530 - £423
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £518 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% +0.98% +20.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 25 33 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.94% 23.24% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 36
10th Percentile £416 £343 £413
25th Percentile £451 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £358 £539
Median % change year-on-year +37.22% -33.58% +7.80%
75th Percentile £513 £450 £540
90th Percentile £524 £503 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +10.53%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Shropshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Shropshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Shropshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Telford +2 4 £483 -5.39% 3
SQL Server
West Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Database Security
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) OCP
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle