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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 70 69
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -24
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 14 30 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.38% 1.78% 2.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.93% 12.35% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 46
10th Percentile £293 £325 £394
25th Percentile £365 £372 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £493 £582 £550
90th Percentile £540 £625 £629
England median daily rate £525 £518 £525
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -

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 202 243 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.86% 14.39% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 183 181
10th Percentile £318 £365 £388
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £693
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +199.64% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +5 10 £400 -21.90% 33
South Yorkshire +7 3 £414 +44.00% 15
North Yorkshire +7 1 £263 -34.38% 9
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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) Metadata
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) Postman
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) React Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Report Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) CCTV Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) VMS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) Laravel
2 3 (21.43%) React Native
2 3 (21.43%) Vue
2 3 (21.43%) WPF
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) JPA
3 1 (7.14%) jQuery
3 1 (7.14%) MyBatis
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Android
1 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) BDD
2 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (21.43%) Kanban
2 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 2 (14.29%) Data Validation
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) VMware