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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -39 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 433 927 1,539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 3.94% 5.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.98% 25.55% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 693 1,154
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £394 £411 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 33
10th Percentile £25.55 £22.88 -
25th Percentile £38.81 £26.42 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% -25.26% +82.69%
75th Percentile £49.04 £46.13 £62.15
90th Percentile £62.96 £67.95 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.58% +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 2,550 3,628 5,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.51% 15.44% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,798 2,605 3,833
10th Percentile £313 £338 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59.24 £66.42 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.50 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
% change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -18 107 £463 -7.50% 192
South East -50 101 £469 -6.25% 150
Midlands -5 77 £456 +5.80% 181
South West -25 71 £550 +4.76% 95
North West -14 69 £463 -7.50% 104
Scotland -6 49 £563 +18.42% 43
West Midlands -7 43 £475 -8.65% 108
East Midlands +3 31 £445 +11.25% 72
Yorkshire 0 28 £450 -10.00% 67
East of England -43 23 £475 +5.56% 64
Wales 0 11 £500 -4.76% 16
North East +17 10 £475 -5.00% 22
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 32 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.00%) Confluence
4 9 (2.08%) IIS
5 7 (1.62%) SAS
5 7 (1.62%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.62%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.15%) Apache
8 4 (0.92%) nginx
9 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.46%) WordPress
10 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.23%) Jadu
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.85%) CATIA
3 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.85%) 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%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 160 (36.95%) Azure
2 75 (17.32%) Power Platform
3 62 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (10.85%) AWS
5 35 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (4.39%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.93%) Serverless
9 15 (3.46%) Azure Functions
9 15 (3.46%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.77%) GitHub
10 12 (2.77%) PaaS
11 11 (2.54%) GCP
11 11 (2.54%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.62%) Collibra
15 7 (1.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (6.47%) SAN
2 27 (6.24%) Firewall
3 24 (5.54%) DNS
4 20 (4.62%) WAN
5 19 (4.39%) LAN
6 18 (4.16%) DHCP
7 11 (2.54%) NAS
7 11 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.85%) MPLS
9 7 (1.62%) VPN
10 6 (1.39%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.39%) Wireless
11 5 (1.15%) FTP
11 5 (1.15%) Network Security
11 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.69%) BGP
12 3 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.69%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.69%) VLAN
13 2 (0.46%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.70%) Power BI
2 54 (12.47%) Relational Database
3 52 (12.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 35 (8.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 32 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (7.16%) MySQL
7 26 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (6.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (4.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 17 (3.93%) Oracle Database
10 17 (3.93%) Tableau
11 15 (3.46%) Data Lake
11 15 (3.46%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.54%) Metadata
13 9 (2.08%) DB2
13 9 (2.08%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.85%) PowerPivot
15 7 (1.62%) Ataccama
15 7 (1.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (8.31%) Git
2 28 (6.47%) JIRA
3 27 (6.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 17 (3.93%) Visual Studio
5 13 (3.00%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.54%) GitLab
7 10 (2.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (2.08%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.85%) Selenium
10 6 (1.39%) Burp Suite
10 6 (1.39%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.39%) 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%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.46%) Moq
13 2 (0.46%) Postman
13 2 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 75 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (12.01%) Finance
4 30 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.00%) Banking
5 13 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 9 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 8 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.39%) Marketing
8 6 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.39%) Publishing
9 5 (1.15%) 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%) Legal
11 3 (0.69%) Local Government
11 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (26.79%) Developer
2 50 (11.55%) DBA
3 49 (11.32%) Senior
4 44 (10.16%) Architect
5 42 (9.70%) SQL DBA
6 37 (8.55%) Analyst
7 29 (6.70%) .NET Developer
7 29 (6.70%) Administrator
8 28 (6.47%) Data Engineer
9 26 (6.00%) Lead
10 25 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (4.62%) SQL Developer
12 18 (4.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.70%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.70%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.46%) SQL Server DBA
15 13 (3.00%) Applications Developer
16 12 (2.77%) C# Developer
16 12 (2.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 12 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (20.32%) .NET
2 30 (6.93%) HTML
3 27 (6.24%) CSS
4 25 (5.77%) .NET Framework
4 25 (5.77%) ASP.NET
5 20 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 19 (4.39%) .NET Core
7 18 (4.16%) Entity Framework
8 16 (3.70%) React
9 14 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (3.23%) REST
9 14 (3.23%) RESTful
9 14 (3.23%) XML
10 13 (3.00%) Web Services
11 10 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (2.31%) Kafka
12 8 (1.85%) JSON
12 8 (1.85%) SOAP
12 8 (1.85%) Swagger
13 7 (1.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.31%) Clustering
1 23 (5.31%) Public Cloud
2 18 (4.16%) Replication
3 14 (3.23%) PKI
4 12 (2.77%) Client/Server
4 12 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.08%) Blog
6 9 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.39%) NHS
9 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.92%) Mainframe
11 4 (0.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 99 (22.86%) Windows
2 54 (12.47%) Linux
3 53 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (4.16%) Unix
6 15 (3.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 10 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (1.62%) Android
10 7 (1.62%) zOS
11 5 (1.15%) VMS
11 5 (1.15%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.92%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (21.25%) Agile
2 90 (20.79%) DevOps
3 78 (18.01%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (13.86%) Migration
5 50 (11.55%) ETL
6 45 (10.39%) Data Modelling
7 44 (10.16%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (10.16%) High Availability
7 44 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (7.16%) CI/CD
10 29 (6.70%) Mentoring
11 28 (6.47%) Data Protection
11 28 (6.47%) MVC
12 26 (6.00%) Analytics
12 26 (6.00%) Data Migration
13 25 (5.77%) Scrum
14 22 (5.08%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (4.85%) OO
15 21 (4.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 243 (56.12%) SQL
2 107 (24.71%) C#
3 75 (17.32%) PowerShell
4 44 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 38 (8.78%) Python
6 37 (8.55%) T-SQL
7 34 (7.85%) Java
8 17 (3.93%) Bash
9 15 (3.46%) C
10 10 (2.31%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (2.08%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.62%) C++
13 4 (0.92%) F#
13 4 (0.92%) PHP
13 4 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.69%) VBA
15 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.16%) Degree
4 37 (8.55%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.85%) MCSE
7 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.15%) CCNA
8 5 (1.15%) CCNP
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
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%) 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 (10.16%) QA
2 16 (3.70%) 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
5 1 (0.23%) GxP
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.23%) HL7
5 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (15.01%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.08%) Docker
4 9 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.08%) vSphere
5 8 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.85%) VMware Workstation
6 7 (1.62%) 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%) 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 (6.24%) Ansible
2 24 (5.54%) Terraform
3 23 (5.31%) SCCM
4 15 (3.46%) Microsoft Clustering
5 13 (3.00%) Nagios
6 12 (2.77%) Kubernetes
7 10 (2.31%) Nessus
7 10 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.08%) Grafana
8 9 (2.08%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.85%) Graylog
9 8 (1.85%) NetBackup
10 7 (1.62%) Puppet
11 6 (1.39%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.39%) 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
1 150 (34.64%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.39%) Oracle
3 50 (11.55%) VMware
4 21 (4.85%) SAP
5 16 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.77%) Splunk
7 11 (2.54%) F5
7 11 (2.54%) Veeam
8 10 (2.31%) Cisco
9 9 (2.08%) NetApp
10 8 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 8 (1.85%) Databricks
10 8 (1.85%) Hitachi
10 8 (1.85%) Siemens
11 7 (1.62%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.62%) Dataiku
11 7 (1.62%) HP
11 7 (1.62%) Trillium
12 6 (1.39%) Aruba
12 6 (1.39%) Checkmarx