SQL Server Integration Services Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SQL Server Integration Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server Integration Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 325 281
Rank change year-on-year -76 -44 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services 120 275 570
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.63% 0.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.16% 3.76% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 214 441
10th Percentile £350 £375 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +14.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 14
10th Percentile £33.18 - £20.48
25th Percentile £36.69 £22.75 £33.05
Median hourly rate £38.85 £24.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +58.55% -58.30% +67.86%
75th Percentile £89.69 £26.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £86.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £24.50 £34.80
% change year-on-year +119.39% -29.59% -0.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Integration Services 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

SQL Server Integration Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Integration Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server Integration Services in the UK

SQL Server Integration Services
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Integration Services within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
England -73 108 £518 -11.54% 188
London -58 63 £525 -16.00% 92
Work from Home -14 48 £500 -9.09% 92
UK excluding London +14 43 £445 -1.11% 112
North of England +13 19 £425 -5.56% 15
North West +20 14 £425 -12.82% 8
Midlands +14 10 £575 +43.75% 26
West Midlands +7 8 £575 +43.75% 21
South West +32 5 £488 -7.14% 23
Yorkshire +1 5 £400 -7.25% 6
South East +32 3 £517 +18.17% 35
East of England +25 3 £488 +18.90% 7
Wales -3 3 £306 -44.36% 2
Scotland +13 1 £438 +6.71% 4
East Midlands +8 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

SQL Server Integration Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.67%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.83%) Endur
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.33%) Azure
2 56 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 21 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 11 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (9.17%) Power Automate
6 10 (8.33%) AWS
6 10 (8.33%) GitHub
7 9 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.00%) SaaS
9 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (3.33%) Azure API Management
11 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.50%) GCP
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.67%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (67.50%) SQL Server
2 56 (46.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 54 (45.00%) Power BI
4 47 (39.17%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (13.33%) Tableau
6 15 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (9.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (7.50%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.83%) Crystal Reports
9 7 (5.83%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (3.33%) Metadata
12 3 (2.50%) Big Data
12 3 (2.50%) Dremio
12 3 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
13 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.67%) Data Mart
13 2 (1.67%) DTS
13 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
13 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.17%) JIRA
4 4 (3.33%) Git
5 3 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.67%) Gradle
6 2 (1.67%) NUnit
6 2 (1.67%) tSQLt
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.83%) Flyway
7 1 (0.83%) Hudson
7 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Banking
5 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Back Office
7 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Local Government
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (39.17%) Developer
2 25 (20.83%) Data Engineer
3 18 (15.00%) SQL Developer
4 14 (11.67%) Analyst
5 13 (10.83%) Power BI Developer
5 13 (10.83%) Senior
6 10 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.83%) DBA
8 7 (5.83%) SQL DBA
9 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Applications Support Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 5 (4.17%) Lead
10 5 (4.17%) SQL BI Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.00%) .NET
2 13 (10.83%) REST
3 9 (7.50%) SOAP
4 8 (6.67%) Web Services
5 5 (4.17%) XML
6 4 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.33%) JSON
6 4 (3.33%) React
6 4 (3.33%) Spring
6 4 (3.33%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.50%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.50%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.50%) Pandas
8 2 (1.67%) jQuery
8 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.00%) Replication
2 5 (4.17%) Clustering
3 4 (3.33%) NHS
3 4 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.67%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.17%) Windows
2 9 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (34.17%) ETL
3 30 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 30 (25.00%) Migration
4 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (15.83%) Analytics
5 19 (15.83%) CRM
5 19 (15.83%) Data Migration
5 19 (15.83%) Visualisation
6 15 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.50%) DevOps
7 14 (11.67%) Data Analysis
8 12 (10.00%) Agile
8 12 (10.00%) Data Engineering
8 12 (10.00%) Data Integration
9 11 (9.17%) Data Governance
9 11 (9.17%) Decision-Making
10 9 (7.50%) Unit Testing
11 8 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 90 (75.00%) SQL
2 26 (21.67%) T-SQL
3 21 (17.50%) C#
4 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.50%) Python
7 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.17%) Java
8 5 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.67%) Bicep
9 2 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (10.00%) Degree
1 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.83%) MCDBA
4 1 (0.83%) MCSE
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.83%) GDPR
3 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.67%) HL7
7 1 (0.83%) QA
7 1 (0.83%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 51 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle
5 4 (3.33%) SAP
5 4 (3.33%) Vertica
6 3 (2.50%) Talend
7 2 (1.67%) Informatica
7 2 (1.67%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.67%) RedGate
8 1 (0.83%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.83%) Cognos
8 1 (0.83%) Google
8 1 (0.83%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.83%) IFS
8 1 (0.83%) Remedy
8 1 (0.83%) Sybase