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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -37 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 436 927 1,529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 3.96% 5.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.99% 25.77% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 694 1,139
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +7.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +1.94% +13.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 36
10th Percentile £25.55 £22.88 -
25th Percentile £38.81 £26.42 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 £51.03
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -30.43% +96.26%
75th Percentile £49.04 £46.13 £64.14
90th Percentile £62.96 £67.95 £72.03
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% -7.22% +73.21%

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 2,566 3,597 5,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.53% 15.37% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,581 3,795
10th Percentile £316 £338 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 115 142
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £61.61
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -13 109 £475 -5.00% 186
South East -51 104 £475 -5.00% 146
Midlands -6 78 £463 +8.82% 169
North West -17 71 £463 -6.07% 104
South West -23 71 £550 +4.76% 94
Scotland -13 45 £525 +10.53% 42
West Midlands -8 43 £525 +1.69% 104
East Midlands +5 31 £445 +11.25% 65
Yorkshire -8 28 £450 -10.00% 60
East of England -35 24 £475 +5.56% 61
Wales 0 11 £500 -4.76% 14
North East +17 10 £475 -5.00% 23
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 9
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 32 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.98%) Confluence
4 7 (1.61%) IIS
4 7 (1.61%) SAS
4 7 (1.61%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (1.61%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.38%) Apache Spark
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%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.83%) CATIA
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (3.44%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.83%) DELMIA
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.69%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 161 (36.93%) Azure
2 76 (17.43%) Power Platform
3 62 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.55%) AWS
5 35 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (4.36%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.90%) Serverless
9 15 (3.44%) Azure Functions
9 15 (3.44%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.98%) GitHub
11 12 (2.75%) PaaS
11 12 (2.75%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.52%) GCP
13 10 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.61%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.19%) Firewall
1 27 (6.19%) SAN
2 25 (5.73%) DNS
3 20 (4.59%) DHCP
4 19 (4.36%) WAN
5 18 (4.13%) LAN
6 11 (2.52%) NAS
6 11 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.83%) MPLS
8 7 (1.61%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (1.61%) VPN
9 6 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.38%) Wireless
10 5 (1.15%) FTP
10 5 (1.15%) Network Security
11 4 (0.92%) VLAN
12 3 (0.69%) BGP
12 3 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.69%) IOS XR
13 2 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.83%) Power BI
2 55 (12.61%) Relational Database
3 54 (12.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (8.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 34 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (7.11%) MySQL
7 27 (6.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (4.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 17 (3.90%) Oracle Database
10 17 (3.90%) Tableau
11 16 (3.67%) Data Lake
12 15 (3.44%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.52%) Metadata
14 9 (2.06%) DB2
14 9 (2.06%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.83%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.61%) Ataccama
16 7 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (8.03%) Git
2 29 (6.65%) JIRA
3 25 (5.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 16 (3.67%) Visual Studio
5 13 (2.98%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.52%) GitLab
7 10 (2.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.83%) Selenium
10 6 (1.38%) Burp Suite
10 6 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.38%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.15%) AppScan
12 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.92%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.69%) JMeter
13 3 (0.69%) NUnit
14 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.46%) Moq
14 2 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 79 (18.12%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (11.93%) Finance
4 28 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.21%) Manufacturing
6 13 (2.98%) Banking
7 9 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 8 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.38%) Marketing
9 6 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.38%) Publishing
10 5 (1.15%) Retail
11 4 (0.92%) Automotive
12 3 (0.69%) Electronics
12 3 (0.69%) German Language
12 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Legal
12 3 (0.69%) Local Government
12 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (26.83%) Developer
2 50 (11.47%) DBA
3 48 (11.01%) Senior
4 42 (9.63%) Architect
4 42 (9.63%) SQL DBA
5 38 (8.72%) Analyst
6 30 (6.88%) Administrator
7 29 (6.65%) .NET Developer
8 28 (6.42%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (5.28%) Lead
11 20 (4.59%) SQL Developer
12 19 (4.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.67%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.21%) SQL Server DBA
15 13 (2.98%) Applications Developer
16 12 (2.75%) C# Developer
16 12 (2.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 12 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (20.41%) .NET
2 30 (6.88%) HTML
3 27 (6.19%) CSS
4 26 (5.96%) ASP.NET
5 25 (5.73%) .NET Framework
6 20 (4.59%) .NET Core
6 20 (4.59%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.13%) Entity Framework
8 17 (3.90%) React
9 14 (3.21%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (3.21%) REST
9 14 (3.21%) RESTful
9 14 (3.21%) XML
10 12 (2.75%) Web Services
11 10 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (2.29%) Kafka
12 8 (1.83%) JSON
12 8 (1.83%) SOAP
12 8 (1.83%) Swagger
13 7 (1.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.28%) Clustering
1 23 (5.28%) Public Cloud
2 19 (4.36%) Replication
3 14 (3.21%) PKI
4 12 (2.75%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.06%) Blog
6 9 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.61%) NHS
9 6 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 99 (22.71%) Windows
2 53 (12.16%) Linux
2 53 (12.16%) Windows Server
3 22 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (4.13%) Unix
5 16 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.29%) Windows 10
8 9 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.83%) Android
9 8 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (1.61%) zOS
11 6 (1.38%) VMS
12 5 (1.15%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (21.33%) Agile
2 90 (20.64%) DevOps
3 79 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (12.84%) Migration
5 52 (11.93%) ETL
6 46 (10.55%) Data Modelling
6 46 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (10.32%) High Availability
8 44 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 32 (7.34%) CI/CD
11 28 (6.42%) Data Protection
11 28 (6.42%) Mentoring
11 28 (6.42%) MVC
12 27 (6.19%) Analytics
13 26 (5.96%) Data Migration
13 26 (5.96%) Scrum
14 22 (5.05%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (4.82%) OO
15 21 (4.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 245 (56.19%) SQL
2 108 (24.77%) C#
3 76 (17.43%) PowerShell
4 45 (10.32%) JavaScript
5 38 (8.72%) Python
5 38 (8.72%) T-SQL
6 33 (7.57%) Java
7 16 (3.67%) Bash
8 15 (3.44%) C
9 10 (2.29%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.61%) C++
12 4 (0.92%) F#
12 4 (0.92%) PHP
12 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.69%) VBA
14 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 46 (10.55%) Degree
4 38 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.83%) MCSE
7 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.15%) MCITP
8 5 (1.15%) MCTS
8 5 (1.15%) SAP Certification
9 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.69%) CCNA
10 3 (0.69%) CCNP
10 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.69%) ISEB
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.09%) QA
2 15 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (0.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) GDPR
4 2 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) GxP
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (14.91%) Active Directory
2 36 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.29%) Docker
4 9 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.06%) vSphere
5 8 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.83%) VMware Workstation
6 7 (1.61%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.23%) Firmware
9 1 (0.23%) HDFS
9 1 (0.23%) IAG
9 1 (0.23%) NFS
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (6.19%) Ansible
2 24 (5.50%) Terraform
3 20 (4.59%) SCCM
4 15 (3.44%) Microsoft Clustering
5 13 (2.98%) Nagios
6 12 (2.75%) Kubernetes
7 10 (2.29%) Nessus
7 10 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.06%) Grafana
8 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.83%) Graylog
9 8 (1.83%) NetBackup
9 8 (1.83%) Puppet
10 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.15%) HP Fortify
12 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.15%) WebInspect
13 4 (0.92%) WSUS
13 4 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 153 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.30%) Oracle
3 51 (11.70%) VMware
4 21 (4.82%) SAP
5 16 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.75%) Splunk
6 12 (2.75%) Veeam
7 10 (2.29%) Cisco
8 9 (2.06%) F5
8 9 (2.06%) NetApp
9 8 (1.83%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.83%) Databricks
9 8 (1.83%) Hitachi
9 8 (1.83%) Siemens
10 7 (1.61%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.61%) Dataiku
10 7 (1.61%) HP
10 7 (1.61%) Trillium
11 6 (1.38%) Aruba
11 6 (1.38%) Checkmarx