SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Contracts in England

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 596 682
Rank change year-on-year +106 +86 -104
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 47 55 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.11% 0.78% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 72
10th Percentile £375 £293 £306
25th Percentile £400 £361 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £601 £505 £641
90th Percentile £688 £525 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Development Application Skills
England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in England

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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 Management Studio (SSMS) within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +100 22 £641 +42.33% 6
Midlands +32 8 £400 -30.43% 5
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 5
North of England +21 6 £475 +10.14% 5
North West +14 6 £475 +10.14% 4
East of England +10 5 £475 +88.49% 2
South East +8 5 - - 6
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.89%) SAS
2 2 (4.26%) Drupal
3 1 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.26%) FileZilla
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (8.51%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) Azure
1 18 (38.30%) Power Platform
2 11 (23.40%) Power Automate
3 7 (14.89%) Collibra
3 7 (14.89%) Snowflake
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (10.64%) IaaS
4 5 (10.64%) PaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.51%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.26%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.13%) AWS
7 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) FTP
1 2 (4.26%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (93.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (29.79%) Power BI
3 12 (25.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (19.15%) MySQL
4 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (14.89%) Ataccama
5 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
5 7 (14.89%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
6 6 (12.77%) Data Mining
7 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (4.26%) MS Access
10 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) JIRA
2 7 (14.89%) ERwin
3 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.26%) Git
4 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (46.81%) Finance
2 15 (31.91%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.26%) Electronics
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.26%) Marketing
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Analyst
1 10 (21.28%) QA Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Data Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Data Architect
2 7 (14.89%) Data Quality Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Quality Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Site Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) DBA
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Senior QA Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Senior Quality Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) SQL DBA
5 4 (8.51%) Applications Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Systems Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) REST
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) JDBC
3 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) MDX
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (29.79%) Data Governance
3 12 (25.53%) Data Integration
4 11 (23.40%) DevOps
4 11 (23.40%) Migration
5 9 (19.15%) Computer Science
6 8 (17.02%) Data Management
7 7 (14.89%) CRM
7 7 (14.89%) Data Analysis
7 7 (14.89%) Data Architecture
7 7 (14.89%) Data Migration
7 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.89%) ETL
7 7 (14.89%) Issue Tracking
7 7 (14.89%) Quality Management
7 7 (14.89%) Scrum
7 7 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.77%) OO
8 6 (12.77%) OOP
8 6 (12.77%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (82.98%) SQL
2 11 (23.40%) C#
3 10 (21.28%) Python
4 6 (12.77%) F#
5 5 (10.64%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.51%) C
7 2 (4.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
3 8 (17.02%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) ISEB
4 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (40.43%) QA
2 14 (29.79%) Data Quality
3 7 (14.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (17.02%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (4.26%) PingFederate
2 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.13%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (19.15%) Oracle
2 9 (19.15%) SAP
3 7 (14.89%) Alteryx
3 7 (14.89%) Dataiku
3 7 (14.89%) Informatica
3 7 (14.89%) Salesforce
3 7 (14.89%) Trillium
4 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.26%) ForgeRock
4 2 (4.26%) LexisNexis
4 2 (4.26%) Okta
4 2 (4.26%) Sage