SQL Server Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 45 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -28
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.80% 0.88% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% 6.45% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £403 £256 £429
25th Percentile £407 £266 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £288 £550
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -47.73% +34.15%
75th Percentile £465 £316 £575
90th Percentile £495 £329 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.06% -10.00% +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 79 62 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.18% 13.57% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 31
10th Percentile £143 £375 £190
25th Percentile £375 £416 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £544 £634 £700
90th Percentile £611 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in South Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +5 3 £414 +65.60% 28
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) InfluxDB
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) MyBatis
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle