SQL Server Contracts in West Sussex

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 27 47
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 16 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 8.42% 3.61% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.78% 20.00% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 2
10th Percentile - £261 £433
25th Percentile £205 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -45.56% -5.26% -14.61%
75th Percentile £419 £475 £494
90th Percentile £498 £483 £498
South East median daily rate £385 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -23.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.91 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +30.90% -22.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Sussex

SQL Server 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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 46 35 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 24.21% 18.04% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 15
10th Percentile £205 £324 £493
25th Percentile £220 £359 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -23.81% -4.11%
75th Percentile £515 £513 £755
90th Percentile £638 £588 £760
South East median daily rate £461 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -7.75% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.75 £36.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £34.50 £38.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +69.23% +6.81%
75th Percentile £36.25 £40.25 £23.13
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £51.59 £55.00
% change year-on-year -53.48% -6.20% +144.44%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in West Sussex

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in West Sussex

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Sussex over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in West Sussex

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in West Sussex

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Crawley +10 12 £220 -53.68% 3
Worthing - 3 £470 - 2
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 £450 -
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle Database
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) NewSQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) OLAP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Billing
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Applications Support
2 8 (50.00%) ERP Support
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Support Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Applications Support Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) ERP
2 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 2 (12.50%) Data Reconciliation
5 2 (12.50%) Data Security
5 2 (12.50%) ETRM
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Use Case
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (81.25%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Cognos
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) VMware