SSDT Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SSDT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SSDT over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 393 505
Rank change year-on-year +28 +112 +4
Contract jobs citing SSDT 4 20 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.096% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.67% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 1
10th Percentile - £492 -
25th Percentile £613 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +44.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £644 £675 -
90th Percentile £648 £678 -
UK median daily rate £638 £625 £426
% change year-on-year +2.00% +46.71% -5.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

SSDT 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,370 3,003 5,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.15% 14.38% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 2,140 3,829
10th Percentile £313 £305 £355
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £527 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.45% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 110 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.83 £21.27 £20.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £46.84 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.95% +10.21% +41.67%
75th Percentile £53.00 £69.69 £65.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.55 £47.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year -34.14% -4.21% +42.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSDT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSDT in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSDT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SSDT in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSDT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SSDT in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the UK excluding London 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
South East +31 4 £625 -3.85%
SSDT
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Environment And Release Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Environment Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform