SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 44 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -31
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 13 9
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.22% 2.81% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.06% 15.29% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £438 £343 £350
25th Percentile £464 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £502 £688 £520
90th Percentile £539 £700 £539
South East median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £22.40 £58.16
% change year-on-year +117.50% -61.49% +61.56%

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 64 85 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 15.80% 18.36% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 97
10th Percentile £163 - £252
25th Percentile £204 £203 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year -44.67% -31.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £456 £500 £600
90th Percentile £538 £589 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £42.71
25th Percentile £77.55 - £45.84
Median hourly rate £83.82 - £52.25
75th Percentile £90.09 - £76.53
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £48.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -3.64% +124.72%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Surrey

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Surrey

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

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 5 December 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 2 £550 -8.33%
Esher - 2 £500 -
Leatherhead - 2 £485 -
Woking - 2 £450 - 2
Staines - 1 - -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
1 2 (22.22%) DBA
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
1 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) AI
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Data Guard
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) Proofpoint
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) RedGate
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Tenable
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler