SSDT Contracts in the South East

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring SSDT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSDT over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSDT 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +62.50% -15.79% -26.92%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

SSDT 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 400 604 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.32% 10.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 371 607
10th Percentile £325 £316 £315
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £683 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 43
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £29.19
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +7.10% +40.28%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -26.82% +29.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SSDT in the South East

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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 SSDT within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire - 3 £650 -
Thames Valley - 3 £650 -
SSDT
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) B2B
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) UiPath