SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.61% 0.65% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.00% 3.70% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £288
25th Percentile £515 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.61%
75th Percentile £545 - £543
90th Percentile - - £591
Hampshire median daily rate £447 £588 £513
% change year-on-year -23.91% +14.63% -1.20%

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 5 27 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 3.03% 17.53% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 25
10th Percentile £158 £356 £478
25th Percentile £289 £356 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £363 £633
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -42.69% +4.33%
75th Percentile £521 £638 £650
90th Percentile £535 £660 -
Hampshire median daily rate £462 £465 £550
% change year-on-year -0.80% -15.42% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Southampton

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty