SQL Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 58 43
Rank change year-on-year -39 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 440 850 1,486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 3.73% 4.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.92% 25.01% 27.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 637 1,113
10th Percentile £306 £331 £313
25th Percentile £388 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +12.12%
75th Percentile £610 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.41% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 29
10th Percentile £36.84 £23.87 £17.35
25th Percentile £40.00 £27.96 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.13 £37.90 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.78% +80.00%
75th Percentile £48.11 £62.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £62.96 £77.50 £75.40
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £48.75 £46.67
% change year-on-year -17.69% +4.46% +83.02%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,600 3,399 5,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.35% 14.92% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,830 2,424 3,854
10th Percentile £313 £336 £335
25th Percentile £397 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 107 127
10th Percentile £13.67 £21.66 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%
75th Percentile £56.56 £73.73 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.20% +61.03%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in the UK excluding London

SQL Server
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 SQL Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 June 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 -44 110 £500 -2.44% 113
North of England -11 106 £475 -5.00% 208
Midlands +2 91 £450 +5.76% 160
North West -18 74 £463 -7.50% 113
South West -19 72 £538 +6.17% 67
West Midlands -22 45 £525 +1.69% 99
East Midlands +9 43 £445 +18.67% 61
Scotland -16 37 £475 -0.84% 43
East of England -29 23 £475 +5.56% 56
Yorkshire -16 22 £450 -10.00% 62
North East +16 10 £475 -13.64% 35
Wales 0 8 £494 -5.95% 12
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.27%) Confluence
4 8 (1.82%) Apache
5 7 (1.59%) SAS
5 7 (1.59%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (1.59%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (1.36%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.45%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.45%) WordPress
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.23%) Jadu
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.82%) CATIA
3 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (3.41%) Teamcenter
2 8 (1.82%) DELMIA
3 5 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.23%) Relativity
6 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 162 (36.82%) Azure
2 85 (19.32%) Power Platform
3 57 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.45%) AWS
5 35 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (4.77%) Power Automate
8 20 (4.55%) PowerApps
9 19 (4.32%) GitHub
10 17 (3.86%) Snowflake
11 15 (3.41%) Serverless
12 13 (2.95%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.73%) GCP
13 12 (2.73%) PaaS
14 9 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.05%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.59%) Collibra
17 6 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.68%) DNS
2 22 (5.00%) Firewall
3 21 (4.77%) SAN
4 20 (4.55%) DHCP
5 13 (2.95%) LAN
6 12 (2.73%) WAN
7 11 (2.50%) NAS
7 11 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.82%) MPLS
9 6 (1.36%) FTP
10 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.91%) Network Security
11 4 (0.91%) VPN
12 3 (0.68%) BGP
12 3 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.68%) IOS XR
12 3 (0.68%) SSL
12 3 (0.68%) VLAN
12 3 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (17.27%) Power BI
2 53 (12.05%) Relational Database
3 48 (10.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (7.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (6.82%) MySQL
7 28 (6.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (5.23%) Tableau
9 21 (4.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 21 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
10 20 (4.55%) Oracle Database
11 19 (4.32%) Data Lake
12 13 (2.95%) MongoDB
13 10 (2.27%) Metadata
14 9 (2.05%) DB2
15 8 (1.82%) PowerPivot
16 7 (1.59%) Ataccama
16 7 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (7.05%) Git
2 25 (5.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 22 (5.00%) JIRA
4 16 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 15 (3.41%) GitLab
6 13 (2.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 11 (2.50%) Jenkins
8 8 (1.82%) Selenium
9 7 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.36%) Burp Suite
10 6 (1.36%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.36%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.14%) AppScan
12 4 (0.91%) JMeter
12 4 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.91%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.68%) NUnit
14 2 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.45%) Moq
14 2 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 83 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 52 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (11.59%) Finance
4 29 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.18%) Banking
6 10 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.36%) Local Government
9 6 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.36%) Publishing
10 5 (1.14%) Legal
10 5 (1.14%) Marketing
10 5 (1.14%) Retail
11 4 (0.91%) Automotive
12 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.45%) Advertising
13 2 (0.45%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 123 (27.95%) Developer
2 45 (10.23%) DBA
3 43 (9.77%) Architect
4 41 (9.32%) Analyst
5 40 (9.09%) Senior
6 37 (8.41%) Administrator
6 37 (8.41%) SQL DBA
7 35 (7.95%) Data Engineer
8 30 (6.82%) .NET Developer
9 25 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 19 (4.32%) Data Analyst
12 18 (4.09%) Lead
12 18 (4.09%) SQL Developer
13 14 (3.18%) Applications Developer
13 14 (3.18%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.73%) Software Developer
15 11 (2.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 10 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (21.14%) .NET
2 38 (8.64%) HTML
3 36 (8.18%) CSS
4 31 (7.05%) .NET Framework
5 28 (6.36%) ASP.NET
6 24 (5.45%) Entity Framework
7 21 (4.77%) .NET Core
8 19 (4.32%) AngularJS
8 19 (4.32%) React
8 19 (4.32%) RESTful
9 17 (3.86%) Web Services
10 14 (3.18%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (3.18%) XML
11 12 (2.73%) REST
12 10 (2.27%) jQuery
12 10 (2.27%) Kafka
13 8 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (1.82%) JSON
13 8 (1.82%) SOAP
13 8 (1.82%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.23%) Public Cloud
2 21 (4.77%) Clustering
3 18 (4.09%) Replication
4 13 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.95%) PKI
5 11 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 11 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.05%) Blog
7 8 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.36%) NHS
9 6 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.91%) Grid Computing
10 4 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.05%) Windows
2 55 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 52 (11.82%) Linux
4 20 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 19 (4.32%) Unix
6 16 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (2.27%) Windows 10
8 9 (2.05%) zOS
9 8 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (1.59%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.36%) VMS
12 5 (1.14%) Android
13 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.91%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (19.32%) Agile
2 81 (18.41%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (18.41%) DevOps
3 56 (12.73%) Migration
4 55 (12.50%) ETL
5 51 (11.59%) Data Modelling
6 48 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (9.32%) High Availability
8 39 (8.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 35 (7.95%) Performance Tuning
10 33 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 33 (7.50%) MVC
11 28 (6.36%) Analytics
11 28 (6.36%) CI/CD
11 28 (6.36%) Data Migration
12 27 (6.14%) Data Protection
13 26 (5.91%) Mentoring
13 26 (5.91%) Visualisation
14 23 (5.23%) Scrum
15 20 (4.55%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (55.00%) SQL
2 114 (25.91%) C#
3 67 (15.23%) PowerShell
4 52 (11.82%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.18%) Python
6 34 (7.73%) T-SQL
7 29 (6.59%) Java
8 16 (3.64%) C
9 14 (3.18%) Bash
10 13 (2.95%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (2.27%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.82%) C++
14 5 (1.14%) PHP
15 4 (0.91%) F#
15 4 (0.91%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.68%) VBA
17 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 55 (12.50%) Degree
4 39 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.82%) MCSE
7 5 (1.14%) MCITP
7 5 (1.14%) MCTS
7 5 (1.14%) SAP Certification
8 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.91%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.68%) ISEB
9 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.45%) SANS
10 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.55%) QA
2 17 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.91%) NIST
4 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.45%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) GxP
5 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) HL7
6 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (14.77%) Active Directory
2 37 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (2.27%) Docker
5 8 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (1.82%) vSphere
6 7 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.45%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.23%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) IAG
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (5.00%) SCCM
2 21 (4.77%) Ansible
3 16 (3.64%) Terraform
4 14 (3.18%) Microsoft Clustering
5 11 (2.50%) Kubernetes
5 11 (2.50%) Nagios
6 10 (2.27%) Nessus
6 10 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.82%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.59%) Grafana
8 7 (1.59%) Graylog
8 7 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.59%) Puppet
9 6 (1.36%) SCOM
9 6 (1.36%) SCSM
9 6 (1.36%) WSUS
10 5 (1.14%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 153 (34.77%) Microsoft
2 62 (14.09%) Oracle
3 46 (10.45%) VMware
4 18 (4.09%) SAP
5 17 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.73%) Splunk
7 9 (2.05%) F5
7 9 (2.05%) NetApp
8 8 (1.82%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.82%) Databricks
8 8 (1.82%) Hitachi
8 8 (1.82%) Siemens
8 8 (1.82%) Veeam
9 7 (1.59%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.59%) Trillium
10 6 (1.36%) AVEVA
10 6 (1.36%) Checkmarx
10 6 (1.36%) Cisco
11 5 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.14%) Veracode