SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 619 713
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -67
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 51 63 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.99% 0.78% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 83
10th Percentile £335 £311 £281
25th Percentile £400 £370 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £604 £514 £638
90th Percentile £688 £525 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +32.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.98 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 11 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 Management Studio (SSMS) within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +79 49 £475 +5.56% 30
UK excluding London +36 27 £425 -12.82% 24
London +89 22 £641 +42.33% 4
Work from Home +93 15 £490 +8.78% 12
Midlands +26 7 £400 -28.09% 7
West Midlands +20 7 £400 +23.08% 5
North of England +19 7 £475 +10.14% 8
North West +17 7 £475 +10.14% 4
East of England +11 7 £475 +88.49% 4
South East +4 5 - - 4
Scotland - 1 £275 -

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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 7 (13.73%) SAS
2 2 (3.92%) Drupal
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.92%) FileZilla
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.96%) PTC Creo
3 1 (1.96%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (7.84%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Power Platform
2 18 (35.29%) Azure
3 12 (23.53%) Power Automate
4 7 (13.73%) Collibra
4 7 (13.73%) Snowflake
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (9.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (9.80%) IaaS
5 5 (9.80%) PaaS
6 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.84%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.92%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.96%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) FTP
1 2 (3.92%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (92.16%) SQL Server
2 16 (31.37%) Power BI
3 13 (25.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (19.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (17.65%) MySQL
6 8 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (13.73%) Ataccama
7 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
7 7 (13.73%) Qlik Sense
8 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
8 6 (11.76%) Data Mining
8 6 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (5.88%) MS Access
9 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.96%) Power Query
10 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) JIRA
2 7 (13.73%) ERwin
3 6 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (43.14%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.88%) Legal
7 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Electronics
7 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.92%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) QA Analyst
3 9 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) Site Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Data Architect
5 7 (13.73%) Data Quality Analyst
5 7 (13.73%) DBA
5 7 (13.73%) Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Quality Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) Senior
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) Senior QA Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 6 (11.76%) SQL DBA
7 4 (7.84%) Administrator
7 4 (7.84%) Applications Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) .NET
1 6 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (3.92%) JDBC
2 2 (3.92%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) MDX
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.96%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) Web Services
3 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Clustering
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (27.45%) Data Governance
3 12 (23.53%) Data Integration
4 11 (21.57%) DevOps
4 11 (21.57%) Migration
5 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.69%) Data Analysis
6 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.69%) Scrum
6 8 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) CRM
7 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
7 7 (13.73%) Data Management
7 7 (13.73%) Data Migration
7 7 (13.73%) ETL
7 7 (13.73%) Issue Tracking
7 7 (13.73%) OO
7 7 (13.73%) OOP
7 7 (13.73%) Quality Management
7 7 (13.73%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (82.35%) SQL
2 12 (23.53%) C#
3 11 (21.57%) Python
4 7 (13.73%) F#
5 4 (7.84%) C
5 4 (7.84%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.92%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) R
7 1 (1.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) Degree
2 10 (19.61%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) ISEB
3 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.92%) CISSP
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (41.18%) QA
2 15 (29.41%) Data Quality
3 7 (13.73%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (3.92%) PingFederate
2 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.96%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Oracle
3 9 (17.65%) SAP
4 7 (13.73%) Alteryx
4 7 (13.73%) Dataiku
4 7 (13.73%) Informatica
4 7 (13.73%) Salesforce
4 7 (13.73%) Trillium
5 2 (3.92%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.92%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.92%) LexisNexis
5 2 (3.92%) Okta
5 2 (3.92%) Sage
6 1 (1.96%) VMware