SQL Server Contracts in Somerset

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 20 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 4 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.88% 3.94% 5.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.05% 40.00% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £448 - £397
25th Percentile £481 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £499
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.83%
75th Percentile £584 - £581
90th Percentile £736 - £593
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.40
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £34.80
Median % change year-on-year - +14.96% -
75th Percentile - - £37.19
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £31.15
% change year-on-year -37.50% +28.42% -51.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 21 20 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 15.11% 9.85% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 16
10th Percentile £406 £223 £404
25th Percentile £416 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £499 £581
90th Percentile £658 £571 £713
South West median daily rate £514 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +2.75% -3.38% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - - £34.16
25th Percentile - - £36.80
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £42.40
Median % change year-on-year - -5.65% -
75th Percentile - - £46.80
90th Percentile - - £48.72
South West median hourly rate £68.75 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +71.88% -38.46% -5.87%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Somerset

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Somerset

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Somerset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Somerset

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Somerset

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bath - 3 £500 - 3
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks