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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.67% 0.80% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.14% 6.06% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £356 £183
25th Percentile £463 £373 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £416 £313
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% +33.20% -37.50%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £394
90th Percentile - £461 £443
North East median daily rate £475 £416 £525
% change year-on-year +14.11% -20.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - -

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 42 33 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.35% 13.15% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 20
10th Percentile £363 £358 £270
25th Percentile £406 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £412
Median % change year-on-year - +15.29% -28.35%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £478
90th Percentile £638 £675 £546
North East median daily rate £475 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -7.32% +20.59% -26.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

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 28 February 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -15 1 - - 12
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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) SysML
3 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Talend