SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 108 195 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.94% 5.51% 5.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.41% 25.83% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 126 175
10th Percentile £363 £423 £386
25th Percentile £419 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £729 £675
90th Percentile £838 £775 £745
Central London median daily rate £505 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 482 755 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.05% 21.32% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 478 685
10th Percentile £408 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £710 £729 £700
90th Percentile £800 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
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% +656.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +332.14%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.48%) IIS
2 4 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (1.85%) JBoss
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.85%) nginx
3 2 (1.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Tornado
4 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Endur
2 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.85%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.85%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.93%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 55 (50.93%) Azure
2 32 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.89%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.19%) AWS
5 10 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.63%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.78%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.78%) GCP
9 3 (2.78%) GitHub
9 3 (2.78%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.78%) Serverless
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) Firewall
1 6 (5.56%) Internet
2 3 (2.78%) DNS
3 2 (1.85%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.93%) NAS
4 1 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.93%) SSH
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (7.41%) MySQL
3 8 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (6.48%) Power BI
5 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.70%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.70%) Redis
7 3 (2.78%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.85%) Big Data
8 2 (1.85%) Metadata
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.93%) Power Query
9 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (17.59%) Git
2 9 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 8 (7.41%) JIRA
3 8 (7.41%) Selenium
4 7 (6.48%) SpecFlow
5 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.70%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.85%) ERwin
7 2 (1.85%) GitLab
7 2 (1.85%) JMeter
7 2 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.85%) Subversion
7 2 (1.85%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.93%) Moq
8 1 (0.93%) MSTest
8 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.67%) Banking
3 16 (14.81%) Finance
4 11 (10.19%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Legal
7 5 (4.63%) Back Office
7 5 (4.63%) Front Office
8 4 (3.70%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) French Language
10 1 (0.93%) German Language
10 1 (0.93%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.93%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.93%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (46.30%) Developer
2 24 (22.22%) Senior
3 14 (12.96%) C# Developer
4 12 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.48%) .NET Developer
5 7 (6.48%) Analyst
5 7 (6.48%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Python Developer
5 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
5 7 (6.48%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) SQL Developer
6 6 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
6 6 (5.56%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Backend Developer
7 5 (4.63%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (4.63%) DevOps Manager
7 5 (4.63%) Market Risk Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (39.81%) .NET
2 15 (13.89%) .NET Core
3 14 (12.96%) .NET Framework
4 13 (12.04%) XML
5 12 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 9 (8.33%) Web Services
7 8 (7.41%) HTML
7 8 (7.41%) Kafka
8 7 (6.48%) CSS
9 6 (5.56%) React
9 6 (5.56%) WCF
10 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.63%) Entity Framework
10 5 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.63%) WinForms
11 4 (3.70%) ARM Templates
11 4 (3.70%) JSON
11 4 (3.70%) REST
12 3 (2.78%) Playwright
13 2 (1.85%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Market Risk
1 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.78%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.85%) Clustering
4 2 (1.85%) Contactless
4 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) BYOD
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.15%) Windows
2 10 (9.26%) Linux
2 10 (9.26%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.56%) Unix
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.93%) CentOS
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.63%) DevOps
2 48 (44.44%) Agile
3 23 (21.30%) SDLC
4 22 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 20 (18.52%) Migration
6 16 (14.81%) Scrum
7 14 (12.96%) Software Engineering
8 13 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (11.11%) Data Analysis
10 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
11 10 (9.26%) ETL
11 10 (9.26%) OO
12 9 (8.33%) Analytics
12 9 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 8 (7.41%) Microservices
13 8 (7.41%) TDD
13 8 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (6.48%) Configuration Management
14 7 (6.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (60.19%) C#
2 50 (46.30%) SQL
3 36 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 22 (20.37%) Python
5 11 (10.19%) Bicep
5 11 (10.19%) T-SQL
6 10 (9.26%) Java
6 10 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.78%) Bash
9 3 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.78%) Scala
10 2 (1.85%) VBA
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) Perl
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
11 1 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) ISEB
4 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.93%) SANS
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.19%) QA
2 8 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.56%) SLA
4 4 (3.70%) WCAG
5 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.78%) Ansible
3 2 (1.85%) Grafana
3 2 (1.85%) Graylog
3 2 (1.85%) Nagios
3 2 (1.85%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.85%) Puppet
3 2 (1.85%) SCCM
3 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.93%) Nessus
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.93%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.93%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (22.22%) Oracle
3 6 (5.56%) Cadence
3 6 (5.56%) iManage
4 3 (2.78%) Citrix
4 3 (2.78%) Databricks
4 3 (2.78%) IBM
4 3 (2.78%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.85%) Informatica
5 2 (1.85%) NEC
5 2 (1.85%) Sparx
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
5 2 (1.85%) Temenos
5 2 (1.85%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.93%) Synology
6 1 (0.93%) Veracode
6 1 (0.93%) Zerto