Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Hampshire > Southampton
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 19 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 20 | 11 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | -9 | +4 |
| Contract jobs citing SQL Server | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton | - | 3.53% | 9.70% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | - | 42.86% | 54.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | £388 | £306 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | £438 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -7.89% | +21.79% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £475 | £595 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £622 |
| Hampshire median daily rate | £583 | £600 | £519 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.88% | +15.66% | +15.28% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £75.00 | - |
| Hampshire median hourly rate | - | £75.00 | £80.00 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -6.25% | +272.09% |
All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Southampton
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 Southampton.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 17 | 14 | 24 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton | 15.60% | 8.24% | 17.91% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| 10th Percentile | £374 | £351 | £306 |
| 25th Percentile | £401 | £388 | £422 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £450 | £513 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.56% | -12.20% | +3.02% |
| 75th Percentile | £660 | £494 | £591 |
| 90th Percentile | £752 | £645 | £619 |
| Hampshire median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £514 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +7.06% | +2.75% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £66.50 | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | £68.75 | £56.25 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £75.00 | £57.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +30.43% | +155.56% |
| 75th Percentile | - | £78.75 | £58.75 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £79.50 | - |
| Hampshire median hourly rate | - | £80.00 | £65.00 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +23.08% | +97.22% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton
Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Southampton.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Southampton.