SQL Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 57 41
Rank change year-on-year -41 -16 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 434 946 1,587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 3.92% 5.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.63% 25.53% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 708 1,197
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £388 £412 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +7.19% +9.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £666 £630
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 33
10th Percentile £20.77 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £37.63 £26.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.01% +79.50%
75th Percentile £51.91 £45.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.96 £65.90 £67.96
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £44.32 £46.67
% change year-on-year -9.74% -5.05% +66.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,609 3,706 5,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.56% 15.35% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,830 2,672 3,867
10th Percentile £325 £341 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +2.56% +10.80%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £542
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.41% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 115 136
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £32.35 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.61 £66.00 £55.77
90th Percentile £79.80 £75.30 £67.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North of England -27 105 £475 -5.00% 192
South East -50 101 £463 -7.50% 164
South West -18 70 £550 +10.00% 90
Midlands -14 69 £482 +13.41% 165
North West -22 64 £475 -5.00% 104
Scotland -9 55 £525 +10.53% 51
West Midlands +4 43 £463 -9.54% 98
Yorkshire -8 31 £450 -8.86% 63
East of England -37 26 £475 +5.56% 80
East Midlands -7 23 £490 +22.38% 67
Wales -1 11 £500 -4.76% 14
North East +23 10 £475 -5.00% 26
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 13
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (7.83%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.23%) Confluence
4 9 (2.07%) IIS
4 9 (2.07%) SAS
5 7 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.61%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (1.15%) Apache
7 4 (0.92%) nginx
8 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.46%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Jadu
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.84%) CATIA
4 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.84%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 156 (35.94%) Azure
2 71 (16.36%) Power Platform
3 60 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (10.37%) AWS
5 39 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.15%) Serverless
8 17 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.46%) Azure Functions
10 13 (3.00%) GitHub
11 12 (2.76%) PaaS
11 12 (2.76%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.53%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.30%) GCP
14 9 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (1.61%) Collibra
17 6 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.68%) DNS
1 29 (6.68%) SAN
2 27 (6.22%) Firewall
3 21 (4.84%) DHCP
3 21 (4.84%) WAN
4 20 (4.61%) LAN
5 11 (2.53%) NAS
5 11 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.84%) MPLS
7 7 (1.61%) VPN
8 6 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (1.38%) Wireless
9 5 (1.15%) FTP
9 5 (1.15%) Network Security
9 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.69%) BGP
10 3 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (0.69%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.69%) VLAN
11 2 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (14.75%) Power BI
2 54 (12.44%) Relational Database
3 53 (12.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 41 (9.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (6.91%) MySQL
6 30 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (5.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (4.84%) Tableau
10 19 (4.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 17 (3.92%) Oracle Database
12 16 (3.69%) MongoDB
13 14 (3.23%) Data Lake
14 12 (2.76%) Metadata
15 9 (2.07%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.84%) Hadoop
16 8 (1.84%) Qlik Sense
17 7 (1.61%) Ataccama
17 7 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (8.76%) Git
2 31 (7.14%) JIRA
3 27 (6.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (3.69%) Visual Studio
5 14 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.76%) GitLab
7 10 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (2.07%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.84%) Selenium
10 6 (1.38%) Burp Suite
10 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.15%) AppScan
12 3 (0.69%) JMeter
12 3 (0.69%) NUnit
12 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.69%) Postman
12 3 (0.69%) Subversion
12 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.46%) Moq
General
1 72 (16.59%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (11.06%) Finance
4 34 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.46%) Manufacturing
6 9 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.84%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.61%) Banking
9 6 (1.38%) Marketing
9 6 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.38%) Publishing
9 6 (1.38%) Retail
10 4 (0.92%) Automotive
10 4 (0.92%) German Language
11 3 (0.69%) Electronics
11 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Local Government
11 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (27.19%) Developer
2 54 (12.44%) Senior
3 47 (10.83%) DBA
4 41 (9.45%) Architect
5 40 (9.22%) Analyst
5 40 (9.22%) SQL DBA
6 31 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 27 (6.22%) Administrator
7 27 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (5.99%) Data Engineer
9 24 (5.53%) Lead
10 22 (5.07%) SQL Developer
11 16 (3.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 16 (3.69%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.46%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.46%) SQL Server DBA
13 13 (3.00%) Applications Developer
13 13 (3.00%) Senior DBA
13 13 (3.00%) Senior SQL DBA
14 12 (2.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (19.59%) .NET
2 31 (7.14%) HTML
3 27 (6.22%) CSS
4 25 (5.76%) ASP.NET
5 24 (5.53%) .NET Framework
6 21 (4.84%) AngularJS
7 20 (4.61%) .NET Core
8 17 (3.92%) Entity Framework
9 15 (3.46%) REST
10 14 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (3.23%) XML
11 13 (3.00%) React
11 13 (3.00%) RESTful
12 11 (2.53%) Web Services
13 10 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (2.07%) Kafka
14 9 (2.07%) SOAP
15 8 (1.84%) JSON
15 8 (1.84%) Swagger
16 7 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.30%) Clustering
2 18 (4.15%) Public Cloud
2 18 (4.15%) Replication
3 16 (3.69%) PKI
4 14 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 14 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.07%) Blog
6 9 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.61%) NHS
8 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.92%) Fat Client
10 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.12%) Windows
2 52 (11.98%) Linux
3 51 (11.75%) Windows Server
4 25 (5.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (4.38%) Unix
6 16 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (2.76%) Windows 10
8 11 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (2.30%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (1.38%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.15%) VMS
13 4 (0.92%) zOS
14 3 (0.69%) Android
14 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.23%) CentOS
15 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (21.20%) Agile
2 89 (20.51%) DevOps
3 74 (17.05%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (14.75%) Migration
5 47 (10.83%) ETL
6 43 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (9.22%) Data Modelling
7 40 (9.22%) High Availability
8 39 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (6.91%) CI/CD
10 30 (6.91%) Data Protection
11 29 (6.68%) MVC
12 26 (5.99%) Data Migration
12 26 (5.99%) Mentoring
12 26 (5.99%) Scrum
13 23 (5.30%) Analytics
14 21 (4.84%) OO
15 20 (4.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (4.61%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 250 (57.60%) SQL
2 108 (24.88%) C#
3 81 (18.66%) PowerShell
4 45 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 41 (9.45%) T-SQL
6 38 (8.76%) Python
7 32 (7.37%) Java
8 17 (3.92%) Bash
9 11 (2.53%) C
9 11 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.30%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.38%) C++
13 4 (0.92%) F#
13 4 (0.92%) PHP
13 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.92%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.69%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 117 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 73 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.22%) Degree
4 38 (8.76%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.84%) MCSE
7 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.15%) CCNA
8 5 (1.15%) CCNP
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.15%) SAP Certification
9 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.69%) ISEB
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.46%) SANS
11 2 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.14%) QA
2 16 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 36 (8.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (2.30%) vSphere
5 9 (2.07%) Docker
5 9 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.84%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.46%) IAG
9 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.23%) HDFS
10 1 (0.23%) NFS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 28 (6.45%) Ansible
2 25 (5.76%) Terraform
3 23 (5.30%) SCCM
4 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Clustering
5 13 (3.00%) Nagios
6 12 (2.76%) Kubernetes
7 10 (2.30%) Nessus
7 10 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.07%) Grafana
8 9 (2.07%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.84%) Graylog
9 8 (1.84%) NetBackup
10 7 (1.61%) Puppet
10 7 (1.61%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.38%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (1.15%) HP Fortify
12 5 (1.15%) WebInspect
12 5 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 150 (34.56%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.59%) Oracle
3 53 (12.21%) VMware
4 21 (4.84%) SAP
5 17 (3.92%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.53%) Cisco
6 11 (2.53%) Splunk
6 11 (2.53%) Veeam
7 10 (2.30%) NetApp
8 9 (2.07%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.84%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.84%) F5
9 8 (1.84%) Hitachi
9 8 (1.84%) HP
9 8 (1.84%) Siemens
10 7 (1.61%) Databricks
10 7 (1.61%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.61%) Trillium
11 6 (1.38%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.38%) Citrix