SSDT Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SSDT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SSDT over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 462 613
Rank change year-on-year +118 +151 -119
Contract jobs citing SSDT 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.071% 0.066% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £571 - -
25th Percentile £584 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% - -
75th Percentile £634 £675 -
90th Percentile £644 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +26.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

SSDT 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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,835 4,559 9,404
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.39% 18.87% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 3,342 6,862
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 87
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.31 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.44 £22.08
Median hourly rate £37.75 £64.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.47% +29.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSDT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SSDT trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SSDT.

SSDT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Environment And Release Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Environment Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle