SQL Server Developer Contracts

SQL Server Developer
UK

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 664 781
Rank change year-on-year +75 +117 -94
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 13 31 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.056% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.059% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 61
10th Percentile £485 £350 £363
25th Percentile £525 £473 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +7.14% +11.05%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £556
90th Percentile £635 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +18.75%
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 - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Developer in the UK

SQL Server Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +81 12 £600 +13.21% 5
London +78 8 £600 +9.09% 1
Work from Home +102 5 £550 +23.60% 3
UK excluding London +35 4 £550 +4.76% 4
Midlands +22 2 - - 2
West Midlands +13 2 - - 2
South East - 2 £550 -

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, SQL Server Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) Azure
4 6 (46.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (38.46%) .NET
5 5 (38.46%) C#
5 5 (38.46%) DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 4 (30.77%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (23.08%) CRM
7 3 (23.08%) Back Office
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (23.08%) Kanban
7 3 (23.08%) Git
7 3 (23.08%) ETL
7 3 (23.08%) Hedge funds
7 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (15.38%) Runbook
8 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (15.38%) Serverless
8 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
8 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
8 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
8 2 (15.38%) Power Automate

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Apigee
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Functions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (15.38%) Power BI
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (23.08%) Back Office
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (23.08%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) CRM
4 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 2 (15.38%) E-Discovery
5 2 (15.38%) Runbook
6 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 1 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Use Case
6 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Infor
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica
2 1 (7.69%) SAP