SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 129 209 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.27% 5.42% 4.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.29% 25.90% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 136 181
10th Percentile £363 £425 £375
25th Percentile £444 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% +9.79%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £675
90th Percentile £838 £781 £750
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +6.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 531 807 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.68% 20.93% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 517 761
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +202.50%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
City of London -3 103 £525 -17.51% 57
West End of London +12 12 £505 -26.55% 2
City of Westminster +7 9 £650 +8.33% 3
Camden - 6 £505 -
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (5.43%) IIS
2 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.55%) CMS
4 2 (1.55%) JBoss
4 2 (1.55%) nginx
4 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.78%) Tornado
5 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Endur
2 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.55%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.55%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.55%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 57 (44.19%) Azure
2 33 (25.58%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (16.28%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.08%) AWS
5 9 (6.98%) Entra ID
5 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.20%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.65%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.88%) GitHub
9 5 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.10%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.10%) Serverless
11 3 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.33%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.55%) GCP
12 2 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) Firewall
2 6 (4.65%) Internet
3 4 (3.10%) DNS
4 2 (1.55%) SSL
4 2 (1.55%) WAN
4 2 (1.55%) Wireless
5 1 (0.78%) DHCP
5 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.78%) LAN
5 1 (0.78%) NAS
5 1 (0.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (10.85%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (10.85%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.30%) Power BI
4 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.75%) MySQL
6 8 (6.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 6 (4.65%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (4.65%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.33%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.33%) Redis
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.55%) Big Data
9 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) Git
2 11 (8.53%) JIRA
3 9 (6.98%) TeamCity
4 7 (5.43%) Selenium
4 7 (5.43%) SpecFlow
5 5 (3.88%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.10%) Postman
6 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.55%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.55%) ERwin
7 2 (1.55%) GitLab
7 2 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.55%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.55%) Subversion
7 2 (1.55%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (1.55%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Banking
2 16 (12.40%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.98%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.65%) Legal
5 6 (4.65%) Retail
6 4 (3.10%) Back Office
6 4 (3.10%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.33%) Front Office
7 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.55%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.78%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.78%) Electronics
9 1 (0.78%) French Language
9 1 (0.78%) German Language
9 1 (0.78%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.78%) Police
9 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 62 (48.06%) Developer
2 24 (18.60%) Senior
3 15 (11.63%) C# Developer
4 14 (10.85%) Senior Developer
5 12 (9.30%) Analyst
6 9 (6.98%) Data Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.20%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Senior Software Developer
7 8 (6.20%) SQL Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Azure Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.43%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Lead
8 7 (5.43%) Python Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Quantitative Developer
8 7 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Market Risk Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (35.66%) .NET
2 23 (17.83%) XML
3 19 (14.73%) .NET Core
4 14 (10.85%) .NET Framework
5 13 (10.08%) ASP.NET
6 10 (7.75%) Web Services
7 9 (6.98%) HTML
7 9 (6.98%) Kafka
8 8 (6.20%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.43%) CSS
9 7 (5.43%) React
10 6 (4.65%) WCF
11 5 (3.88%) JSON
11 5 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.88%) REST
11 5 (3.88%) WinForms
12 4 (3.10%) ARM Templates
12 4 (3.10%) Entity Framework
13 3 (2.33%) jQuery
13 3 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.43%) Hedge funds
2 7 (5.43%) Market Risk
3 5 (3.88%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.33%) Contactless
4 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) BYOD
5 2 (1.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.78%) Clustering
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Equities
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.16%) Windows
2 13 (10.08%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.98%) Linux
4 6 (4.65%) Unix
5 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (47.29%) DevOps
2 56 (43.41%) Agile
3 26 (20.16%) Scrum
4 24 (18.60%) CI/CD
4 24 (18.60%) SDLC
5 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.50%) Migration
7 19 (14.73%) ETL
8 15 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (11.63%) Data Modelling
8 15 (11.63%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.08%) Data Analysis
10 12 (9.30%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.30%) Microservices
10 12 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (7.75%) OO
12 9 (6.98%) Analytics
12 9 (6.98%) Kanban
12 9 (6.98%) Project Management
13 8 (6.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (52.71%) SQL
2 66 (51.16%) C#
3 39 (30.23%) PowerShell
4 22 (17.05%) Python
5 18 (13.95%) T-SQL
6 13 (10.08%) Java
7 12 (9.30%) Bicep
7 12 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.75%) PL/SQL
9 7 (5.43%) XPath
10 6 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.65%) XQuery
11 5 (3.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.33%) Bash
13 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.55%) Perl
14 1 (0.78%) C
14 1 (0.78%) PHP
14 1 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (11.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.55%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) ISEB
4 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.78%) SANS
4 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.53%) QA
2 7 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.65%) SLA
4 4 (3.10%) WCAG
5 1 (0.78%) EMIR
5 1 (0.78%) FATCA
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.10%) Docker
3 1 (0.78%) ACF2
3 1 (0.78%) IAG
3 1 (0.78%) RACF
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Ansible
3 2 (1.55%) Grafana
3 2 (1.55%) Graylog
3 2 (1.55%) Nagios
3 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.55%) Puppet
3 2 (1.55%) SCCM
3 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.55%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.78%) Nessus
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.78%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 51 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 34 (26.36%) Oracle
3 6 (4.65%) Cadence
3 6 (4.65%) iManage
3 6 (4.65%) SAP
4 3 (2.33%) Citrix
4 3 (2.33%) IBM
4 3 (2.33%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.33%) VMware
5 2 (1.55%) Databricks
5 2 (1.55%) Informatica
5 2 (1.55%) NEC
5 2 (1.55%) Sparx
5 2 (1.55%) Splunk
5 2 (1.55%) Sybase
5 2 (1.55%) Temenos
6 1 (0.78%) Aruba
6 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.78%) Terracotta