SQL Server Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 68 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -24 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 30 58 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.79% 2.51% 4.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.10% 21.01% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 101
10th Percentile £325 £395 £313
25th Percentile £372 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £488
90th Percentile £625 £627 £588
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 248 276 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.79% 11.93% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 190 337
10th Percentile £359 £399 £348
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £550
90th Percentile £645 £700 £630
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile - - £18.21
25th Percentile - - £18.72
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £21.20
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.44%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £22.40
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £56.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.63% +32.71% +72.48%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Yorkshire +6 20 £513 +2.50% 33
North Yorkshire +2 4 £400 -5.88% 9
South Yorkshire -2 4 £288 -47.73% 16
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) Akamai
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) OCI
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (16.67%) MySQL
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) Flink
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) OLAP
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) GitLab
2 6 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) Git
3 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (13.33%) AppScan
4 4 (13.33%) Burp Suite
4 4 (13.33%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.67%) Subversion
6 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Back Office
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Law
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 6 (20.00%) SQL BI Developer
3 6 (20.00%) SQL Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Site Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Environment Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Business Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) DBA
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (13.33%) Spring
1 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) Blazor
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) LDAP
3 1 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) LIMS
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) DevOps
2 11 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Analytics
5 7 (23.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Project Management
6 6 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Change Control
8 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (13.33%) OWASP
8 4 (13.33%) Product Requirements
8 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) IAG
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
2 1 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 5 (16.67%) Puppet
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) Grafana
2 4 (13.33%) Graylog
2 4 (13.33%) HP Fortify
2 4 (13.33%) Nessus
2 4 (13.33%) WebInspect
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (13.33%) Checkmarx
3 4 (13.33%) Splunk
3 4 (13.33%) Veracode
4 1 (3.33%) Aruba
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) HP
4 1 (3.33%) iManage
4 1 (3.33%) Intapp
4 1 (3.33%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Sophos
4 1 (3.33%) Sybase
4 1 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler