SQL Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -50 -19 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 101 255 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.82% 4.37% 5.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.45% 29.34% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 196 329
10th Percentile £306 £310 £325
25th Percentile £380 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% +16.47%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £575
90th Percentile £664 £688 £640
England median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £47.61 £37.50 -
25th Percentile £54.85 £39.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £43.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.41% +102.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.98 £64.25 £54.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.70 £60.52
England median hourly rate £40.13 £41.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.89% -12.11% +69.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 614 869 1,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.07% 14.89% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 609 977
10th Percentile £321 £318 £338
25th Percentile £400 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £676 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 30
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.18
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +1.84%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.44 £62.49
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.30% +37.86% +70.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the South East

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley -37 49 £500 +3.09% 47
Berkshire -14 36 £506 +4.38% 19
Hampshire -45 14 £425 -15.00% 32
West Sussex +10 11 £375 -11.76% 13
Buckinghamshire -11 10 £425 -11.46% 13
Surrey -24 10 £625 +25.00% 19
East Sussex +6 8 £380 -41.54% 14
Home Counties +7 4 £475 +5.56%
Kent -1 4 £550 -22.26% 21
Oxfordshire +1 3 £525 +21.74% 15
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.96%) Confluence
2 3 (2.97%) Apache
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
3 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.99%) Jadu
4 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.99%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.99%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.61%) Azure
2 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.93%) AWS
4 7 (6.93%) Azure Functions
4 7 (6.93%) Serverless
5 6 (5.94%) Azure API Management
5 6 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (5.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.95%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (4.95%) PaaS
7 3 (2.97%) GitHub
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) SAN
2 9 (8.91%) Firewall
3 8 (7.92%) DNS
4 7 (6.93%) NAS
5 6 (5.94%) DHCP
6 5 (4.95%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (4.95%) WAN
7 4 (3.96%) FTP
8 3 (2.97%) BGP
8 3 (2.97%) IOS XR
8 3 (2.97%) LAN
8 3 (2.97%) Network Security
9 2 (1.98%) SSL
9 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.98%) VPN
9 2 (1.98%) Wireless
10 1 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (11.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 11 (10.89%) MySQL
3 10 (9.90%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (7.92%) Power BI
6 7 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 5 (4.95%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.97%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.97%) Tableau
11 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.98%) Impala
11 2 (1.98%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) JIRA
2 9 (8.91%) Git
2 9 (8.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.97%) GitLab
6 2 (1.98%) JMeter
6 2 (1.98%) Selenium
6 2 (1.98%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.99%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.99%) Postman
General
1 21 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.93%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.94%) Finance
5 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.98%) Automotive
7 2 (1.98%) Marketing
7 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Back Office
8 1 (0.99%) Electronics
8 1 (0.99%) French Language
8 1 (0.99%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (37.62%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (10.89%) Senior
4 10 (9.90%) Database Specialist
5 8 (7.92%) .NET Developer
5 8 (7.92%) Azure Developer
5 8 (7.92%) SQL Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Architect
7 6 (5.94%) DBA
7 6 (5.94%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) C# Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Consultant
8 5 (4.95%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Integration Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Site Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.70%) .NET
2 17 (16.83%) AngularJS
3 13 (12.87%) HTML
4 11 (10.89%) .NET Core
4 11 (10.89%) CSS
5 9 (8.91%) .NET Framework
5 9 (8.91%) ASP.NET
5 9 (8.91%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (6.93%) JSON
6 7 (6.93%) REST
6 7 (6.93%) RESTful
7 6 (5.94%) Entity Framework
7 6 (5.94%) XML
8 5 (4.95%) ARM Templates
8 5 (4.95%) Blazor
8 5 (4.95%) React
8 5 (4.95%) SOAP
9 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (2.97%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) PKI
2 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
3 6 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.94%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.96%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.96%) Replication
5 4 (3.96%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.97%) Clustering
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) CCTV
7 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.98%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.69%) Windows
2 20 (19.80%) Linux
3 15 (14.85%) Windows Server
4 12 (11.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (6.93%) Ubuntu
5 7 (6.93%) Unix
6 6 (5.94%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.95%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.97%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.98%) Android
9 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.98%) VMS
9 2 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.99%) CentOS
10 1 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) Agile
2 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.83%) DevOps
4 16 (15.84%) Mentoring
5 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (13.86%) Migration
5 14 (13.86%) MVC
6 13 (12.87%) OO
6 13 (12.87%) Scrum
7 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.90%) ETL
9 8 (7.92%) Data Protection
9 8 (7.92%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (7.92%) Project Management
9 8 (7.92%) TDD
10 7 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (6.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (6.93%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.94%) Incident Management
11 6 (5.94%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 58 (57.43%) SQL
2 33 (32.67%) C#
3 22 (21.78%) JavaScript
4 14 (13.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (7.92%) Bash
5 8 (7.92%) Java
6 6 (5.94%) T-SQL
7 5 (4.95%) C++
8 4 (3.96%) F#
9 3 (2.97%) Python
10 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.99%) Bicep
11 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.99%) PHP
11 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.99%) VBA
11 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.86%) DV Cleared
3 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) Degree
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.95%) vSphere
4 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.98%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 12 (11.88%) Ansible
2 7 (6.93%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Nessus
3 5 (4.95%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.96%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (3.96%) SCCM
4 4 (3.96%) WSUS
4 4 (3.96%) ZABBIX
5 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.98%) Grafana
6 2 (1.98%) Graylog
6 2 (1.98%) Nagios
6 2 (1.98%) PaperCut
6 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (28.71%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.75%) Oracle
3 17 (16.83%) VMware
4 10 (9.90%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.93%) Veeam
6 6 (5.94%) Cisco
7 4 (3.96%) Informatica
8 3 (2.97%) SAP
8 3 (2.97%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.98%) Aruba
9 2 (1.98%) Citrix
9 2 (1.98%) HP
9 2 (1.98%) Nimble Storage
9 2 (1.98%) Sage
9 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.98%) Splunk
9 2 (1.98%) WatchGuard
10 1 (0.99%) Facebook
10 1 (0.99%) McAfee
10 1 (0.99%) Twitter