SQL Server Contracts in Surrey

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 29 46 27
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 10 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.36% 1.70% 6.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.22% 13.70% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 38
10th Percentile £349 £363 £304
25th Percentile £402 £425 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £664 £738 £544
90th Percentile £700 £740 £689
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 45 73 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 15.10% 12.44% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 126
10th Percentile £310 £375 £305
25th Percentile £362 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.06% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £594
90th Percentile £586 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £50.50
25th Percentile - £12.27 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £12.54 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -77.21% +480.47%
75th Percentile - £12.80 £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Surrey

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Surrey

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Surrey

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Surrey

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Camberley - 2 £600 - 1
Redhill +12 1 £475 +18.75% 1
Weybridge - 1 £350 -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) DBA
2 4 (40.00%) Sybase DBA
3 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) IT Support
3 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Operations Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Hosting Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Database Security
4 1 (10.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Line Management
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Foglight
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Sybase
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio