Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SSDT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSDT over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 712 855
Rank change year-on-year +137 +143 -171
Contract jobs citing SSDT 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.007% 0.014%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.041% 0.038% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile - £423 £588
25th Percentile - £438 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £494 £556 £675
90th Percentile £550 £598 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £425 -
% change year-on-year +35.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SSDT 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,337 10,575 17,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.91% 17.90% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,241 7,524 12,672
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +60.89%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.41 £62.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SSDT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSDT.

Daily rate trend for SSDT in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SSDT over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SSDT in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSDT.

Hourly rate trend for SSDT in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
London +113 2 £400 -33.33%
England +106 2 £400 -15.79% 3
Work from Home +129 1 £575 +27.78% 1
UK excluding London +58 1 £575 +35.29% 3
Scotland - 1 £575 -

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle