SQL Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 85 64
Rank change year-on-year -10 -21 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 77 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.42% 2.36% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.56% 21.10% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 57 74
10th Percentile - £395 £391
25th Percentile £363 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +6.17% +6.58%
75th Percentile £520 £650 £584
90th Percentile £588 £690 £646
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £29.75 - £22.36
25th Percentile £36.88 - £24.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +42.11% -52.13%
75th Percentile £64.38 - £33.33
90th Percentile £72.25 - £35.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -37.50% -17.95% -10.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 225 365 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.27% 11.18% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 260 300
10th Percentile £313 £363 £363
25th Percentile £383 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £606 £600 £632
90th Percentile £675 £675 £714
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 26
10th Percentile £25.23 - £19.38
25th Percentile £65.31 £17.50 £36.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -39.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the South West

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Wiltshire +27 6 £525 +24.11% 24
Dorset - 6 £375 - 9
Somerset -3 5 £500 +42.86% 29
Devon - 3 £520 - 17
Gloucestershire +20 2 £475 -17.39% 28
Bristol -10 2 £375 -37.50% 45
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Functions
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics
4 2 (7.69%) Local Government
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (15.38%) DBA
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Digital Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Integration Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Database Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) XML
3 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
3 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 3 (11.54%) JSON
4 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.69%) OpenAPI
4 2 (7.69%) Swagger
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) LDAP
5 1 (3.85%) React
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Fabric
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) ETL
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) API Design
6 3 (11.54%) API Development
6 3 (11.54%) API Management
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (11.54%) Database Security
6 3 (11.54%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
7 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
7 2 (7.69%) Kimball Methodology
7 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) MCSE
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Data Guard
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Databricks
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (7.69%) Talend
5 1 (3.85%) VMware