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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 6.67% - 9.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 66.67% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £466 - £662
25th Percentile £472 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.14%
75th Percentile £597 - £741
90th Percentile £599 - £748
Somerset median daily rate £575 £500 £720
% change year-on-year +15.00% -30.56% +51.58%

All Database & BI 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 3 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 10.00% 66.67% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £466 - £598
25th Percentile £472 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £685
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.87%
75th Percentile £597 - £736
90th Percentile £599 - £746
Somerset median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -12.20%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
1 1 (50.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) ATL
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) COM
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) MFC
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SignalR
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware