SQL Server Developer Contracts in England

SQL Server Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 578 709
Rank change year-on-year +83 +131 -24
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 19 11 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.027% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.029% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 45
10th Percentile £476 £359 £407
25th Percentile £525 £395 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £431 £565
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -23.67% +14.43%
75th Percentile £578 £628 £688
90th Percentile £597 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +16.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £61.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in England

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Developer in England

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Developer in England

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Developer in England

SQL Server Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +51 10 £550 +27.54% 6
North West - 7 £563 -
North of England - 7 £563 -
South West +26 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
SQL Server Developer
UK

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, SQL Server Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 7 (36.84%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) Azure App Service
5 6 (31.58%) Azure Event Grid
5 6 (31.58%) Clean Code
5 6 (31.58%) .NET Framework
5 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 6 (31.58%) TDD
5 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
5 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
5 6 (31.58%) C#
5 6 (31.58%) .NET
6 5 (26.32%) SAP
6 5 (26.32%) FTP
6 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
6 5 (26.32%) Scrum
6 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
6 5 (26.32%) Electronics
6 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
6 5 (26.32%) Finance
6 5 (26.32%) Project Management
6 5 (26.32%) Marketing
6 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (26.32%) YAML

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure App Service
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Event Grid
3 5 (26.32%) Azure Functions
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) OLTP
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (26.32%) Electronics
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
1 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
1 5 (26.32%) Marketing
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
1 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
1 6 (31.58%) .NET Framework
1 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
2 5 (26.32%) AngularJS
2 5 (26.32%) Entity Framework
2 5 (26.32%) GraphQL
2 5 (26.32%) Swagger
2 5 (26.32%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Next.js
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (36.84%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Clean Code
3 6 (31.58%) TDD
3 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
4 5 (26.32%) API Development
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Data Development
4 5 (26.32%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (26.32%) Front End Development
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
4 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
4 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Project Management
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica