SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.97% - 2.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £440
25th Percentile £413 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £438 - £488
90th Percentile - - £495
North East median daily rate £425 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -17.39%

All Database & BI 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 105 42 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 14.60% 16.41% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 22 15
10th Percentile £313 £378 £371
25th Percentile £363 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £469 £634 £525
90th Percentile £536 £749 £600
North East median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £36.00 -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SQL Server

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 11 October 2026. 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
Sunderland - 4 - - 1
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £425 - 10
SQL Server
North East

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) IaaS
1 4 (57.14%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Impala
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
3 1 (14.29%) Redshift Spectrum
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Billing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Validation
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Log Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Server Migrations
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) CRM
6 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) HDFS
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Commvault
1 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
1 4 (57.14%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce