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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 569 1,306 2,071
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.69% 5.02% 4.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.59% 26.18% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 1,007 1,607
10th Percentile £334 £388 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.15% +6.89%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £588
90th Percentile £712 £750 £695
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 2,905 4,989 9,666
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.83% 19.17% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,128 3,636 7,040
10th Percentile £352 £386 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 84
10th Percentile £19.89 £22.16 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £43.57 £21.63
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 £85.50 £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 25 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 25 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 29 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.93%) Confluence
2 11 (1.93%) IIS
3 10 (1.76%) CMS
4 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.70%) Apache
5 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.70%) JBoss
5 4 (0.70%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.53%) Appian
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.35%) CICS
7 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 34 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.23%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.05%) Endur
4 4 (0.70%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.53%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.53%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.35%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.35%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.35%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 258 (45.34%) Azure
2 108 (18.98%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (14.06%) Power Platform
4 61 (10.72%) AWS
5 34 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (5.98%) Serverless
6 30 (5.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 30 (5.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (5.10%) Entra ID
7 29 (5.10%) GitHub
8 27 (4.75%) Azure Functions
8 27 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 24 (4.22%) PowerApps
10 18 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.99%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.46%) PaaS
14 13 (2.28%) Azure API Management
15 12 (2.11%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.69%) Firewall
2 18 (3.16%) DNS
3 7 (1.23%) SAN
4 5 (0.88%) FTP
4 5 (0.88%) LAN
4 5 (0.88%) WAN
5 4 (0.70%) DHCP
6 3 (0.53%) BGP
6 3 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (0.53%) IOS XR
6 3 (0.53%) VPN
7 2 (0.35%) HTTP
7 2 (0.35%) SSH
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) VSAN
8 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.25%) Data Warehouse
1 64 (11.25%) Power BI
2 57 (10.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 55 (9.67%) Relational Database
4 47 (8.26%) MySQL
5 45 (7.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 38 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
9 20 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 18 (3.16%) Oracle Database
11 16 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 16 (2.81%) Metadata
11 16 (2.81%) MongoDB
11 16 (2.81%) RDBMS
12 12 (2.11%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.76%) Power Query
14 9 (1.58%) Big Data
14 9 (1.58%) Tableau
15 8 (1.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 58 (10.19%) Git
2 43 (7.56%) JIRA
3 30 (5.27%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 15 (2.64%) SpecFlow
6 13 (2.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (2.11%) Selenium
8 11 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.58%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.58%) WebDriver
10 8 (1.41%) GitLab
11 7 (1.23%) Postman
12 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.88%) ERwin
13 5 (0.88%) JMeter
13 5 (0.88%) MSI
13 5 (0.88%) TestRail
13 5 (0.88%) WiX
14 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.70%) Moq
General
1 137 (24.08%) Finance
2 127 (22.32%) Social Skills
3 51 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.61%) Banking
5 46 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.99%) Front Office
7 16 (2.81%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.46%) Back Office
8 14 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.11%) Marketing
10 11 (1.93%) Retail
10 11 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.41%) Electronics
12 7 (1.23%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.70%) French Language
14 4 (0.70%) Japanese Language
14 4 (0.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 250 (43.94%) Developer
2 91 (15.99%) Senior
3 60 (10.54%) Senior Developer
4 59 (10.37%) C# Developer
5 57 (10.02%) .NET Developer
6 46 (8.08%) DBA
7 39 (6.85%) SQL DBA
8 36 (6.33%) Data Engineer
9 35 (6.15%) Architect
10 33 (5.80%) Azure Developer
11 32 (5.62%) Analyst
11 32 (5.62%) SQL Developer
12 30 (5.27%) Software Developer
13 28 (4.92%) Administrator
14 20 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
15 19 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 19 (3.34%) C# .NET Developer
15 19 (3.34%) Consultant
15 19 (3.34%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.16%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (26.71%) .NET
2 72 (12.65%) XML
3 61 (10.72%) .NET Framework
4 56 (9.84%) HTML
5 50 (8.79%) AngularJS
6 47 (8.26%) ASP.NET
7 43 (7.56%) .NET Core
8 35 (6.15%) REST
9 34 (5.98%) CSS
10 30 (5.27%) SOAP
11 29 (5.10%) Entity Framework
11 29 (5.10%) React
11 29 (5.10%) Web Services
12 25 (4.39%) JSON
13 22 (3.87%) RESTful
13 22 (3.87%) SailPoint
14 21 (3.69%) LDAP
15 20 (3.51%) Servlets
16 19 (3.34%) jQuery
16 19 (3.34%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.22%) Onboarding
2 22 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.16%) Replication
4 16 (2.81%) Clustering
5 15 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.64%) Derivative
5 15 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.11%) Equity Derivative
6 12 (2.11%) NHS
7 10 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.41%) Contactless
9 8 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.23%) Blog
10 7 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.11%) Windows
2 40 (7.03%) Windows Server
3 33 (5.80%) Linux
4 17 (2.99%) Unix
5 9 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.70%) 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 (0.18%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (25.83%) DevOps
2 144 (25.31%) Agile
3 94 (16.52%) Migration
4 91 (15.99%) Business Intelligence
5 81 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (13.18%) ETL
7 74 (13.01%) CI/CD
8 69 (12.13%) Scrum
9 57 (10.02%) Data Modelling
10 42 (7.38%) OO
11 41 (7.21%) TDD
12 39 (6.85%) High Availability
12 39 (6.85%) MVC
13 38 (6.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (6.15%) Computer Science
15 34 (5.98%) Analytics
15 34 (5.98%) Performance Tuning
16 33 (5.80%) Full Stack Development
16 33 (5.80%) Test Automation
17 32 (5.62%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 326 (57.29%) SQL
2 204 (35.85%) C#
3 109 (19.16%) PowerShell
4 73 (12.83%) JavaScript
5 61 (10.72%) Java
6 55 (9.67%) T-SQL
7 54 (9.49%) Python
8 37 (6.50%) PL/SQL
9 30 (5.27%) Bicep
10 17 (2.99%) TypeScript
11 13 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.93%) Bash
12 11 (1.93%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.76%) VBA
14 6 (1.05%) PHP
14 6 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.88%) C
15 5 (0.88%) F#
16 4 (0.70%) Perl
17 3 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (11.42%) Degree
2 52 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.58%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.23%) MCSE
6 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.53%) CCNA
9 3 (0.53%) CCNP
9 3 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.53%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.35%) MCSA
11 1 (0.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.15%) QA
2 25 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.93%) WCAG
5 6 (1.05%) GDPR
6 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.53%) MiFID
8 2 (0.35%) 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 (0.18%) FATCA
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (13.88%) Active Directory
2 20 (3.51%) IAG
3 18 (3.16%) Docker
4 16 (2.81%) ACF2
4 16 (2.81%) RACF
5 8 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.53%) vSphere
9 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (4.22%) Terraform
2 19 (3.34%) Ansible
3 16 (2.81%) Kubernetes
4 15 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.46%) SCCM
6 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.88%) Puppet
7 4 (0.70%) Grafana
7 4 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.70%) SCOM
8 3 (0.53%) Graylog
8 3 (0.53%) Nagios
9 2 (0.35%) Salt
9 2 (0.35%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.18%) Nessus
10 1 (0.18%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.18%) WebInspect
10 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 213 (37.43%) Microsoft
2 111 (19.51%) Oracle
3 29 (5.10%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.22%) Sybase
5 22 (3.87%) SAP
6 19 (3.34%) VMware
7 17 (2.99%) Databricks
8 12 (2.11%) IBM
9 9 (1.58%) AVEVA
9 9 (1.58%) Qualys
9 9 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.58%) Sparx
10 8 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.41%) CA
10 8 (1.41%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.05%) Cisco
11 6 (1.05%) HP
11 6 (1.05%) Informatica
12 5 (0.88%) Splunk
13 4 (0.70%) F5