SQL Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 45 38
Rank change year-on-year -55 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 38 118 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 4.15% 4.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.45% 27.96% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 94 138
10th Percentile £339 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £565 £625 £627
South East median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £80.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.37% +272.09% -2.27%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 332 422 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.66% 14.84% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 287 435
10th Percentile £312 £320 £325
25th Percentile £391 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +2.00% +10.44%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £574
90th Percentile £688 £677 £631
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 4
10th Percentile £19.59 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £32.30 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +90.71% +72.27% -56.90%
75th Percentile - £75.75 £33.38
90th Percentile £65.50 £79.19 £50.70
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £56.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.72% +150.00% -48.28%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the Thames Valley

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -25 27 £500 - 15
Buckinghamshire -16 9 £425 -15.00% 11
Oxfordshire -2 2 £538 +24.64% 16
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Jadu
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (2.63%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Azure API Management
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Functions
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.79%) Serverless
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) DHCP
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) FTP
2 4 (10.53%) NAS
2 4 (10.53%) SAN
3 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (15.79%) MySQL
2 6 (15.79%) Power BI
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle Database
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.89%) Tableau
6 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.26%) Impala
6 2 (5.26%) OLTP
6 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
1 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (2.63%) Back Office
4 1 (2.63%) Electronics
4 1 (2.63%) French Language
4 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.63%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Azure Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Database Specialist
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Developer
3 4 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Consultant
3 4 (10.53%) Integration Developer
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) C# Developer
4 3 (7.89%) DBA
4 3 (7.89%) Site Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) ETL Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.53%) SOAP
3 4 (10.53%) XML
4 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 3 (7.89%) JSON
4 3 (7.89%) OAuth
4 3 (7.89%) OpenID
4 3 (7.89%) REST
5 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.26%) CSS
5 2 (5.26%) WinForms
6 1 (2.63%) Ajax
6 1 (2.63%) LAMP
6 1 (2.63%) MDX
6 1 (2.63%) Symfony
6 1 (2.63%) WCF
6 1 (2.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (10.53%) Fat Client
1 4 (10.53%) PKI
1 4 (10.53%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.79%) Linux
4 5 (13.16%) Unix
5 4 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) OO
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps
3 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.79%) Agile
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
4 6 (15.79%) Scrum
5 5 (13.16%) Application Security
5 5 (13.16%) B2C
5 5 (13.16%) Break/Fix
5 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
5 5 (13.16%) ETL
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.16%) Security Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Revenue Assurance
6 4 (10.53%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) C#
3 10 (26.32%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.89%) F#
6 2 (5.26%) C++
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Python
7 1 (2.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (10.53%) Nessus
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (10.53%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.53%) WSUS
2 4 (10.53%) ZABBIX
3 2 (5.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.63%) Grafana
4 1 (2.63%) Graylog
4 1 (2.63%) Nagios
4 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) Oracle
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.53%) Informatica
4 4 (10.53%) Veeam
4 4 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Facebook
5 1 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Twitter