SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 621 721
Rank change year-on-year +95 +100 -118
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 50 63 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.97% 0.75% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 87
10th Percentile £345 £296 £294
25th Percentile £400 £359 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £607 £500 £644
90th Percentile £688 £525 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +4.23% -11.25% +32.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Development Application Skills
UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in the UK

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Top 12 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 Management Studio (SSMS) within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +106 47 £475 +5.56% 23
UK excluding London +51 26 £463 +4.23% 19
London +100 22 £641 +42.33% 6
Work from Home +106 16 £490 +5.84% 18
Midlands +32 8 £400 -30.43% 5
West Midlands - 8 £400 - 5
North of England +21 6 £475 +10.14% 5
North West +14 6 £475 +10.14% 4
East of England +10 5 £475 +88.49% 2
South East +8 5 - - 6
Wales +18 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £275 - 1

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) SAS
2 2 (4.00%) Drupal
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) FileZilla
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (8.00%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Power Platform
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 12 (24.00%) Power Automate
4 7 (14.00%) Collibra
4 7 (14.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (10.00%) IaaS
5 5 (10.00%) PaaS
6 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.00%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.00%) AWS
8 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) FTP
1 2 (4.00%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (94.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (30.00%) Power BI
3 13 (26.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (18.00%) MySQL
6 7 (14.00%) Ataccama
6 7 (14.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
6 7 (14.00%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (12.00%) Data Lake
7 6 (12.00%) Data Mining
8 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
10 2 (4.00%) MS Access
11 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (2.00%) Power Query
11 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) JIRA
2 7 (14.00%) ERwin
3 5 (10.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.00%) Git
4 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.00%) tSQLt
General
1 23 (46.00%) Finance
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 6 (12.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Marketing
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
2 10 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Site Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Data Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Data Quality Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Quality Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) DBA
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Senior QA Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Senior Quality Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) SQL DBA
7 4 (8.00%) Applications Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Systems Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) JDBC
3 2 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.00%) XML
4 1 (2.00%) FHIR
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) MDX
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Clustering
3 2 (4.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (28.00%) Data Governance
3 12 (24.00%) Data Integration
4 11 (22.00%) DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) Migration
5 10 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 9 (18.00%) Scrum
7 8 (16.00%) Data Management
7 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) CRM
8 7 (14.00%) Data Analysis
8 7 (14.00%) Data Architecture
8 7 (14.00%) Data Migration
8 7 (14.00%) Data Modelling
8 7 (14.00%) ETL
8 7 (14.00%) Issue Tracking
8 7 (14.00%) OO
8 7 (14.00%) OOP
8 7 (14.00%) Quality Management
8 7 (14.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (82.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) C#
3 10 (20.00%) Python
4 7 (14.00%) F#
5 6 (12.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (8.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) Java
8 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) ISEB
3 3 (6.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.00%) QA
2 15 (30.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (14.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) PingFederate
2 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) Oracle
3 9 (18.00%) SAP
4 7 (14.00%) Alteryx
4 7 (14.00%) Dataiku
4 7 (14.00%) Informatica
4 7 (14.00%) Salesforce
4 7 (14.00%) Trillium
5 2 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.00%) LexisNexis
5 2 (4.00%) Okta
5 2 (4.00%) Sage
6 1 (2.00%) RedGate