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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 566 1,221 2,026
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.75% 4.87% 4.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.61% 25.54% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 955 1,571
10th Percentile £325 £388 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £715 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 24
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 £54.44
90th Percentile - - £61.51
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £46.67
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.58% +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 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 26 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.77%) CMS
3 9 (1.59%) Confluence
3 9 (1.59%) IIS
4 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.71%) JBoss
5 4 (0.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.53%) Apache
6 3 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.35%) Appian
7 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 32 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.24%) Teamcenter
2 6 (1.06%) Endur
3 4 (0.71%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.71%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.35%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.35%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.18%) Shopify
6 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 268 (47.35%) Azure
2 119 (21.02%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (14.66%) Power Platform
4 61 (10.78%) AWS
5 34 (6.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 33 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 33 (5.83%) Serverless
7 30 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 30 (5.30%) Entra ID
8 28 (4.95%) Azure Functions
8 28 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.42%) GitHub
10 22 (3.89%) PowerApps
11 19 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (2.83%) PaaS
12 16 (2.83%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (2.65%) Collibra
14 14 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.53%) Firewall
2 14 (2.47%) DNS
3 6 (1.06%) SAN
4 5 (0.88%) FTP
5 4 (0.71%) LAN
5 4 (0.71%) SSH
5 4 (0.71%) WAN
6 3 (0.53%) BGP
6 3 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.53%) DHCP
6 3 (0.53%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.53%) VPN
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) NAS
8 1 (0.18%) Network Security
8 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.19%) Power BI
2 64 (11.31%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 55 (9.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 48 (8.48%) MySQL
6 41 (7.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 35 (6.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (3.18%) Metadata
11 17 (3.00%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.83%) NoSQL
13 15 (2.65%) MongoDB
13 15 (2.65%) Oracle Database
14 14 (2.47%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.59%) Big Data
16 8 (1.41%) Power Query
16 8 (1.41%) Tableau
17 7 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 57 (10.07%) Git
2 38 (6.71%) JIRA
3 30 (5.30%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.18%) SpecFlow
5 17 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 13 (2.30%) Selenium
6 13 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 11 (1.94%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.77%) WebDriver
9 8 (1.41%) GitLab
9 8 (1.41%) Jenkins
10 6 (1.06%) JMeter
10 6 (1.06%) Postman
11 5 (0.88%) MSI
11 5 (0.88%) TestRail
11 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.88%) WiX
12 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.71%) ERwin
General
1 138 (24.38%) Finance
1 138 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.36%) Public Sector
3 48 (8.48%) Banking
4 47 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.00%) Front Office
6 15 (2.65%) Back Office
6 15 (2.65%) Financial Institution
6 15 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.30%) Marketing
8 12 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.77%) Retail
10 9 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.41%) Electronics
12 6 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.88%) Local Government
13 5 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Legal
14 4 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 245 (43.29%) Developer
2 93 (16.43%) Senior
3 64 (11.31%) Senior Developer
4 61 (10.78%) C# Developer
5 60 (10.60%) .NET Developer
6 42 (7.42%) DBA
7 38 (6.71%) Architect
7 38 (6.71%) Data Engineer
8 37 (6.54%) SQL DBA
9 36 (6.36%) Azure Developer
10 34 (6.01%) Analyst
11 33 (5.83%) Software Developer
12 26 (4.59%) Administrator
12 26 (4.59%) SQL Developer
13 23 (4.06%) Consultant
13 23 (4.06%) Full Stack Developer
14 22 (3.89%) Senior Software Developer
15 19 (3.36%) Lead
16 18 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (3.18%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (28.98%) .NET
2 73 (12.90%) XML
3 62 (10.95%) .NET Framework
4 58 (10.25%) HTML
5 53 (9.36%) AngularJS
6 51 (9.01%) ASP.NET
7 48 (8.48%) .NET Core
8 42 (7.42%) React
9 38 (6.71%) CSS
10 34 (6.01%) REST
11 30 (5.30%) Entity Framework
11 30 (5.30%) Web Services
12 26 (4.59%) SOAP
13 24 (4.24%) JSON
13 24 (4.24%) RESTful
14 21 (3.71%) SailPoint
15 19 (3.36%) jQuery
16 18 (3.18%) ARM Templates
16 18 (3.18%) LDAP
17 17 (3.00%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.59%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.53%) Replication
4 18 (3.18%) Clustering
5 16 (2.83%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.47%) Derivative
6 14 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.12%) NHS
9 11 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.94%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.41%) Contactless
11 8 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.19%) Windows
2 40 (7.07%) Windows Server
3 34 (6.01%) Linux
4 18 (3.18%) Unix
5 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.53%) Android
7 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.53%) zOS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (28.27%) DevOps
2 156 (27.56%) Agile
3 95 (16.78%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
5 86 (15.19%) Migration
6 83 (14.66%) CI/CD
7 76 (13.43%) ETL
8 73 (12.90%) Scrum
9 58 (10.25%) Data Modelling
10 42 (7.42%) High Availability
11 41 (7.24%) OO
12 40 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
12 40 (7.07%) TDD
13 39 (6.89%) Computer Science
14 37 (6.54%) Microservices
15 36 (6.36%) MVC
15 36 (6.36%) Test Automation
16 35 (6.18%) Full Stack Development
17 34 (6.01%) Analytics
17 34 (6.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 311 (54.95%) SQL
2 209 (36.93%) C#
3 112 (19.79%) PowerShell
4 73 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 60 (10.60%) Java
6 53 (9.36%) Python
7 49 (8.66%) T-SQL
8 39 (6.89%) Bicep
9 35 (6.18%) PL/SQL
10 23 (4.06%) TypeScript
11 14 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.94%) Bash
13 9 (1.59%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.59%) VBA
14 8 (1.41%) C
15 7 (1.24%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.06%) PHP
17 5 (0.88%) F#
18 3 (0.53%) Scala
18 3 (0.53%) XPath
Qualifications
1 68 (12.01%) Degree
2 50 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 42 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.24%) MCSE
7 5 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.53%) CCNA
9 3 (0.53%) CCNP
9 3 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.53%) MCITP
9 3 (0.53%) MCTS
9 3 (0.53%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.35%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.24%) QA
2 23 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.77%) WCAG
5 7 (1.24%) GDPR
6 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.53%) IFRS
7 3 (0.53%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.18%) EMIR
9 1 (0.18%) FATCA
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (14.31%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.36%) Docker
3 17 (3.00%) IAG
4 15 (2.65%) ACF2
4 15 (2.65%) RACF
5 7 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (4.42%) Terraform
2 18 (3.18%) Ansible
3 17 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (2.30%) SCCM
5 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.88%) Puppet
6 4 (0.71%) Grafana
6 4 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.71%) SCOM
7 3 (0.53%) Graylog
7 3 (0.53%) Nagios
8 2 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.35%) Salt
8 2 (0.35%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.18%) Control-M
9 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.18%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 209 (36.93%) Microsoft
2 104 (18.37%) Oracle
3 27 (4.77%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.24%) SAP
5 20 (3.53%) Sybase
6 18 (3.18%) Databricks
7 17 (3.00%) VMware
8 10 (1.77%) IBM
9 9 (1.59%) AVEVA
9 9 (1.59%) Qualys
10 8 (1.41%) Informatica
11 7 (1.24%) CA
11 7 (1.24%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.24%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.06%) Sparx
13 5 (0.88%) F5
13 5 (0.88%) HP
13 5 (0.88%) Splunk