SQL Server Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 80 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 19 25 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.51% 1.45% 2.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.12% 8.74% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 39
10th Percentile £293 £320 £383
25th Percentile £365 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £493 £578 £545
90th Percentile £531 £606 £634
England median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 234 286 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.57% 16.57% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 200 164
10th Percentile £316 £398 £363
25th Percentile £391 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £571 £591 £638
90th Percentile £604 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +199.64% -48.38% +3.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% -30.43% +46.44%

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 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
West Yorkshire +7 13 £400 -15.79% 69
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 9
South Yorkshire -5 2 £455 +58.26% 29
North Yorkshire +10 1 £263 - 8
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 3 (15.79%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
4 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) LAN
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VLAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) InfluxDB
3 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JMeter
1 2 (10.53%) Postman
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Software Manager
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior C# Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Core
3 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.79%) MSMQ
4 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) Laravel
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) React Native
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) Vue
5 1 (5.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) CCTV
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Scrum
4 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Budgeting
5 3 (15.79%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (15.79%) Focus Group
5 3 (15.79%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.79%) VB.NET
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Veritas