SQL Server Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 31 24 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 -21
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.46% 3.29% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.00% 27.59% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £366 £315 £383
25th Percentile £398 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £459 £488 -
90th Percentile £465 £493 £560
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 29 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.39% 11.93% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 55
10th Percentile £358 £381 £500
25th Percentile £400 £427 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £700
90th Percentile £665 £535 £812
North East median daily rate £460 £476 £575
% change year-on-year -3.36% -17.22% +9.52%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -10 4 £463 -2.63% 30
Sunderland +1 1 £450 -5.26%
SQL Server
North East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (50.00%) OpenEdge
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) ERwin
2 1 (16.67%) git-flow
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (16.67%) French Language
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
4 1 (16.67%) ERD
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle