SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.33% - 12.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.22% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £521 - £662
25th Percentile £553 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.00%
75th Percentile £683 - £741
90th Percentile £699 - £748
Somerset median daily rate £575 £425 £720
% change year-on-year +35.29% -40.97% +51.58%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 9 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 37.50% 15.79% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £535 - £605
25th Percentile £644 £550 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.91% -17.86% +20.17%
75th Percentile £715 £600 £730
90th Percentile £720 - £744
Somerset median daily rate £550 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Somerset median hourly rate £63.00 - £46.00
% change year-on-year - - -8.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Taunton

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Taunton over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Taunton

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware