SQL Server Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 42 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 577 1,314 2,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.72% 5.02% 4.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.83% 26.20% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 1,014 1,622
10th Percentile £326 £389 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £588
90th Percentile £711 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 27
10th Percentile £12.78 £26.55 -
25th Percentile £22.10 £37.88 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.25 £47.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +0.71% +55.57%
75th Percentile £42.88 £85.00 £54.00
90th Percentile - - £60.86
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £44.32 £46.67
% change year-on-year -9.74% -5.05% +66.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,910 5,015 9,739
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.77% 19.16% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 3,653 7,096
10th Percentile £350 £386 £364
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £744 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 85
10th Percentile £19.89 £22.16 £18.77
25th Percentile £22.52 £44.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £66.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +46.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £75.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.63 £87.66 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

SQL Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server.

SQL Server daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

SQL Server daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SQL Server.

SQL Server hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SQL Server over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

SQL Server hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 30 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.91%) Confluence
2 11 (1.91%) IIS
3 10 (1.73%) CMS
4 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.87%) Appian
5 5 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.69%) JBoss
7 3 (0.52%) nginx
7 3 (0.52%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.21%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.04%) Endur
4 4 (0.69%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.52%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.35%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.35%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Epicor iScala
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.17%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 258 (44.71%) Azure
2 104 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (14.21%) Power Platform
4 61 (10.57%) AWS
5 36 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (6.07%) Serverless
7 31 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (5.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 30 (5.20%) GitHub
9 29 (5.03%) Entra ID
10 27 (4.68%) Azure Functions
11 26 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
11 26 (4.51%) PowerApps
12 18 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.95%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (2.43%) PaaS
16 13 (2.25%) Azure API Management
17 12 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.16%) Firewall
2 19 (3.29%) DNS
3 7 (1.21%) SAN
4 5 (0.87%) FTP
4 5 (0.87%) LAN
4 5 (0.87%) WAN
5 4 (0.69%) DHCP
5 4 (0.69%) VPN
6 3 (0.52%) BGP
6 3 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.52%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.35%) HTTP
7 2 (0.35%) Network Security
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.17%) Internet
8 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.17%) SSH
8 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (11.09%) Power BI
3 60 (10.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 56 (9.71%) Relational Database
5 48 (8.32%) MySQL
6 47 (8.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 38 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (3.99%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 19 (3.29%) Data Lake
11 19 (3.29%) Oracle Database
12 17 (2.95%) MongoDB
12 17 (2.95%) RDBMS
13 16 (2.77%) Metadata
14 12 (2.08%) NoSQL
14 12 (2.08%) Power Query
15 9 (1.56%) Big Data
15 9 (1.56%) Tableau
16 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (9.88%) Git
2 44 (7.63%) JIRA
3 31 (5.37%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 13 (2.25%) SpecFlow
5 13 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (2.08%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.91%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.91%) Selenium
8 8 (1.39%) GitLab
8 8 (1.39%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.21%) Postman
10 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.87%) ERwin
11 5 (0.87%) JMeter
11 5 (0.87%) MSI
11 5 (0.87%) TestRail
11 5 (0.87%) WiX
12 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.69%) Moq
General
1 137 (23.74%) Finance
2 126 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 52 (9.01%) Banking
4 50 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.95%) Front Office
7 16 (2.77%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.43%) Back Office
9 13 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.91%) Marketing
10 11 (1.91%) Retail
10 11 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.39%) Electronics
12 7 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.69%) Japanese Language
13 4 (0.69%) Local Government
13 4 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 252 (43.67%) Developer
2 88 (15.25%) Senior
3 59 (10.23%) .NET Developer
3 59 (10.23%) C# Developer
4 57 (9.88%) Senior Developer
5 48 (8.32%) DBA
6 40 (6.93%) SQL DBA
7 35 (6.07%) Architect
7 35 (6.07%) Data Engineer
8 33 (5.72%) SQL Developer
9 32 (5.55%) Analyst
10 31 (5.37%) Azure Developer
11 30 (5.20%) Administrator
12 28 (4.85%) Software Developer
13 19 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 19 (3.29%) C# .NET Developer
13 19 (3.29%) Consultant
13 19 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
14 18 (3.12%) Lead
15 17 (2.95%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (26.17%) .NET
2 69 (11.96%) XML
3 61 (10.57%) .NET Framework
4 55 (9.53%) HTML
5 50 (8.67%) AngularJS
6 46 (7.97%) ASP.NET
7 42 (7.28%) .NET Core
8 35 (6.07%) REST
9 33 (5.72%) CSS
10 30 (5.20%) Entity Framework
10 30 (5.20%) SOAP
10 30 (5.20%) Web Services
11 28 (4.85%) React
12 25 (4.33%) JSON
13 22 (3.81%) RESTful
14 21 (3.64%) LDAP
14 21 (3.64%) SailPoint
15 20 (3.47%) Servlets
16 19 (3.29%) jQuery
16 19 (3.29%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (3.99%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.29%) Replication
4 15 (2.60%) Clustering
4 15 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.60%) Derivative
4 15 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
6 12 (2.08%) NHS
7 11 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.73%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.39%) Contactless
11 7 (1.21%) Blog
11 7 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 86 (14.90%) Windows
2 41 (7.11%) Windows Server
3 34 (5.89%) Linux
4 17 (2.95%) Unix
5 10 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.35%) zOS
10 1 (0.17%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (25.13%) DevOps
2 141 (24.44%) Agile
3 96 (16.64%) Migration
4 93 (16.12%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (13.69%) ETL
7 71 (12.31%) CI/CD
8 67 (11.61%) Scrum
9 57 (9.88%) Data Modelling
10 42 (7.28%) OO
10 42 (7.28%) TDD
11 40 (6.93%) High Availability
12 39 (6.76%) MVC
13 38 (6.59%) Analytics
14 37 (6.41%) Disaster Recovery
15 34 (5.89%) Computer Science
15 34 (5.89%) Data Integration
15 34 (5.89%) Performance Tuning
16 32 (5.55%) Full Stack Development
16 32 (5.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 332 (57.54%) SQL
2 202 (35.01%) C#
3 105 (18.20%) PowerShell
4 72 (12.48%) JavaScript
5 61 (10.57%) Java
6 54 (9.36%) T-SQL
7 53 (9.19%) Python
8 37 (6.41%) PL/SQL
9 28 (4.85%) Bicep
10 16 (2.77%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.91%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.73%) Bash
13 10 (1.73%) VBA
14 6 (1.04%) PHP
14 6 (1.04%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.87%) C
15 5 (0.87%) F#
16 3 (0.52%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (11.44%) Degree
2 51 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.21%) MCSE
8 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.52%) CCNA
11 3 (0.52%) CCNP
11 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.52%) MCSA
11 3 (0.52%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.24%) QA
2 28 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.91%) WCAG
5 6 (1.04%) GDPR
6 4 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.69%) MiFID
7 3 (0.52%) EMIR
8 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.35%) IFRS
8 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (13.69%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.47%) IAG
3 17 (2.95%) Docker
4 16 (2.77%) ACF2
4 16 (2.77%) RACF
5 8 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.52%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (4.16%) Terraform
2 19 (3.29%) Ansible
3 17 (2.95%) Kubernetes
4 15 (2.60%) SCCM
5 13 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.87%) Grafana
6 5 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.69%) Graylog
7 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.69%) Nagios
7 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
7 4 (0.69%) SCOM
8 2 (0.35%) Salt
8 2 (0.35%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.17%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 215 (37.26%) Microsoft
2 113 (19.58%) Oracle
3 28 (4.85%) ServiceNow
4 23 (3.99%) SAP
4 23 (3.99%) Sybase
5 19 (3.29%) VMware
6 18 (3.12%) Databricks
7 12 (2.08%) IBM
8 9 (1.56%) AVEVA
8 9 (1.56%) CA
8 9 (1.56%) Qualys
8 9 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.56%) Sparx
9 8 (1.39%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.04%) Cisco
10 6 (1.04%) HP
10 6 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (0.87%) Splunk
12 4 (0.69%) F5