SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Telford

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +68
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 5 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 2.54% 9.52% 2.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.62% 27.59% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £364 £542 -
25th Percentile £385 £556 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £567 £480
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% +18.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £499 £569 £495
90th Percentile £522 £573 -
Shropshire median daily rate £440 £567 £403
% change year-on-year -22.40% +40.87% -19.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 58 29 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 29.44% 34.52% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 4
10th Percentile £427 £338 £308
25th Percentile £508 £358 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £455 £403
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% +13.04% -24.06%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £509
90th Percentile £561 £567 £534
Shropshire median daily rate £519 £455 £325
% change year-on-year +13.96% +40.00% -38.68%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Telford

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Telford over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Telford

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) LINQ
2 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle