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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 138 201 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.76% 5.44% 4.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.14% 25.87% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 135 158
10th Percentile £363 £416 £406
25th Percentile £441 £505 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £688
90th Percentile £838 £788 £741
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +587.50%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +525.00%

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 528 777 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.04% 21.05% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 498 697
10th Percentile £407 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £712
90th Percentile £785 £800 £800
London median daily rate £560 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -2.61% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.50 £53.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year -9.77% - +74.44%

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 29 May 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 29 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
City of London 0 114 £538 -14.00% 58
West End of London +11 11 £505 -26.55% 2
City of Westminster +6 8 £575 -2.13% 1
Camden - 5 £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 8 (5.80%) IIS
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (1.45%) CMS
3 2 (1.45%) JBoss
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.45%) nginx
3 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Endur
2 2 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.45%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.45%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.45%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.72%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.45%) Azure
2 43 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (18.12%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.87%) AWS
4 15 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Pipelines
8 6 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.90%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.90%) GCP
9 4 (2.90%) GitHub
9 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.90%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.90%) Serverless
10 3 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.17%) Azure App Service
10 3 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) Internet
2 4 (2.90%) Firewall
3 2 (1.45%) DNS
3 2 (1.45%) SSL
4 1 (0.72%) FTP
4 1 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 17 (12.32%) Power BI
3 13 (9.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (9.42%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.07%) MySQL
6 6 (4.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.62%) RDBMS
7 5 (3.62%) Redis
8 4 (2.90%) Data Mining
9 3 (2.17%) Big Data
9 3 (2.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.45%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (14.49%) Git
2 11 (7.97%) JIRA
3 10 (7.25%) TeamCity
4 8 (5.80%) Selenium
4 8 (5.80%) SpecFlow
5 6 (4.35%) Visual Studio
6 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.90%) Postman
8 3 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.45%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.45%) ERwin
9 2 (1.45%) GitLab
9 2 (1.45%) JMeter
9 2 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (1.45%) Subversion
9 2 (1.45%) WebDriver
9 2 (1.45%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.72%) Moq
10 1 (0.72%) MSTest
10 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 34 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.94%) Banking
3 19 (13.77%) Finance
4 14 (10.14%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.07%) Back Office
7 6 (4.35%) Legal
7 6 (4.35%) Retail
8 5 (3.62%) Front Office
9 4 (2.90%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) French Language
10 2 (1.45%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.45%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.72%) German Language
11 1 (0.72%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.72%) Police
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (46.38%) Developer
2 29 (21.01%) Senior
3 18 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 15 (10.87%) C# Developer
5 13 (9.42%) Analyst
6 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Senior Software Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Azure Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Backend Developer
9 8 (5.80%) SQL Developer
10 7 (5.07%) .NET Developer
10 7 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Lead
10 7 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.35%) Python Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Backend Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (38.41%) .NET
2 25 (18.12%) XML
3 21 (15.22%) .NET Core
4 16 (11.59%) .NET Framework
5 14 (10.14%) ASP.NET
6 11 (7.97%) HTML
7 10 (7.25%) CSS
8 9 (6.52%) Kafka
8 9 (6.52%) React
9 8 (5.80%) Web Services
10 6 (4.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.35%) WCF
11 5 (3.62%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.62%) WinForms
12 4 (2.90%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.90%) JSON
13 3 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (2.17%) Blazor
13 3 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.35%) Market Risk
3 5 (3.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.17%) Contactless
5 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.45%) Clustering
6 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) BYOD
7 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.72%) PDA
7 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.46%) Windows
2 12 (8.70%) Linux
3 11 (7.97%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.35%) Unix
5 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.72%) CentOS
6 1 (0.72%) VMS
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.00%) DevOps
2 66 (47.83%) Agile
3 30 (21.74%) Scrum
4 27 (19.57%) SDLC
5 26 (18.84%) CI/CD
6 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (15.94%) Migration
8 21 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
10 16 (11.59%) ETL
11 14 (10.14%) Data Analysis
12 12 (8.70%) OO
12 12 (8.70%) Software Engineering
12 12 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (7.97%) Analytics
14 10 (7.25%) B2C
14 10 (7.25%) Computer Science
14 10 (7.25%) Kanban
14 10 (7.25%) TDD
14 10 (7.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (55.07%) SQL
2 74 (53.62%) C#
3 43 (31.16%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.94%) Python
5 18 (13.04%) T-SQL
6 16 (11.59%) Bicep
7 12 (8.70%) PL/SQL
8 11 (7.97%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.07%) Java
9 7 (5.07%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.07%) XPath
10 6 (4.35%) XQuery
11 4 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.17%) Bash
12 3 (2.17%) Perl
12 3 (2.17%) Scala
13 2 (1.45%) VBA
14 1 (0.72%) C
14 1 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (10.14%) Degree
2 7 (5.07%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) ISEB
5 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.72%) SANS
5 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) QA
2 10 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.35%) SLA
5 5 (3.62%) WCAG
6 1 (0.72%) EMIR
6 1 (0.72%) FATCA
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) MiFID
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.90%) Ansible
3 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.17%) Puppet
3 3 (2.17%) Terraform
4 2 (1.45%) Grafana
4 2 (1.45%) Graylog
4 2 (1.45%) Nagios
4 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.72%) Nessus
5 1 (0.72%) Rancher
5 1 (0.72%) SCCM
5 1 (0.72%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.72%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 57 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (26.81%) Oracle
3 7 (5.07%) SAP
4 6 (4.35%) Cadence
4 6 (4.35%) iManage
5 4 (2.90%) Citrix
5 4 (2.90%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.17%) IBM
6 3 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.17%) VMware
7 2 (1.45%) Databricks
7 2 (1.45%) Informatica
7 2 (1.45%) NEC
7 2 (1.45%) Sparx
7 2 (1.45%) Splunk
7 2 (1.45%) Temenos
8 1 (0.72%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.72%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.72%) Veracode