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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 36 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 110 197 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.09% 5.52% 5.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.96% 26.02% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 128 175
10th Percentile £363 £424 £406
25th Percentile £425 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +10.43% +6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £732 £688
90th Percentile £838 £779 £750
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 479 757 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.18% 21.20% 21.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 477 697
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £713 £730 £700
90th Percentile £803 £800 £793
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% +255.88%

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 13 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 8 (7.27%) IIS
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 2 (1.82%) JBoss
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
3 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.91%) Tornado
4 1 (0.91%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Endur
2 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.82%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.82%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.82%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.91%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 58 (52.73%) Azure
2 33 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.55%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.91%) AWS
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (7.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.36%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.36%) Entra ID
8 6 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (3.64%) GitHub
10 4 (3.64%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.73%) GCP
11 3 (2.73%) Serverless
12 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Internet
2 6 (5.45%) Firewall
3 3 (2.73%) DNS
4 2 (1.82%) SSL
5 1 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.91%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.91%) NAS
5 1 (0.91%) SAN
5 1 (0.91%) SSH
5 1 (0.91%) VPN
5 1 (0.91%) WAN
5 1 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.91%) Relational Database
2 10 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (8.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (7.27%) Power BI
5 7 (6.36%) MySQL
5 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.64%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.64%) Redis
8 3 (2.73%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.82%) Big Data
9 2 (1.82%) Metadata
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Git
2 10 (9.09%) TeamCity
3 8 (7.27%) JIRA
3 8 (7.27%) Selenium
4 7 (6.36%) SpecFlow
5 5 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.55%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.64%) Postman
7 3 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.82%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.82%) ERwin
8 2 (1.82%) GitLab
8 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 2 (1.82%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.82%) Subversion
8 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.91%) AppScan
9 1 (0.91%) MSTest
9 1 (0.91%) NUnit
9 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 31 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Banking
3 16 (14.55%) Finance
4 11 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.45%) Legal
7 5 (4.55%) Back Office
7 5 (4.55%) Front Office
8 4 (3.64%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.91%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.91%) French Language
10 1 (0.91%) German Language
10 1 (0.91%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.91%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.91%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (46.36%) Developer
2 24 (21.82%) Senior
3 14 (12.73%) C# Developer
4 12 (10.91%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Analyst
6 7 (6.36%) Data Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Python Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.55%) DevOps Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Lead
8 5 (4.55%) Market Risk Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.00%) .NET
2 15 (13.64%) .NET Core
3 14 (12.73%) .NET Framework
4 13 (11.82%) XML
5 12 (10.91%) ASP.NET
6 9 (8.18%) Web Services
7 8 (7.27%) HTML
7 8 (7.27%) Kafka
8 7 (6.36%) CSS
9 6 (5.45%) React
9 6 (5.45%) WCF
10 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.55%) Entity Framework
10 5 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (4.55%) WinForms
11 4 (3.64%) ARM Templates
11 4 (3.64%) JSON
11 4 (3.64%) REST
12 3 (2.73%) Playwright
13 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Market Risk
1 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.73%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.82%) Clustering
4 2 (1.82%) Contactless
4 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) BYOD
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.64%) Windows
2 11 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.09%) Linux
4 6 (5.45%) Unix
5 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.91%) CentOS
6 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (55.45%) DevOps
2 51 (46.36%) Agile
3 24 (21.82%) SDLC
4 23 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.09%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.18%) Migration
7 19 (17.27%) Scrum
8 14 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (12.73%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.91%) Data Analysis
10 11 (10.00%) Computer Science
11 10 (9.09%) Analytics
11 10 (9.09%) Data Modelling
11 10 (9.09%) ETL
11 10 (9.09%) OO
12 8 (7.27%) Microservices
12 8 (7.27%) TDD
12 8 (7.27%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.27%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (6.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.09%) C#
2 52 (47.27%) SQL
3 37 (33.64%) PowerShell
4 22 (20.00%) Python
5 11 (10.00%) Bicep
5 11 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 10 (9.09%) Java
6 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.64%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.73%) Bash
9 3 (2.73%) Scala
10 2 (1.82%) VBA
11 1 (0.91%) Perl
11 1 (0.91%) PHP
11 1 (0.91%) R
11 1 (0.91%) Ruby
11 1 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (12.73%) Degree
2 6 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.91%) ISEB
4 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.91%) SANS
4 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 8 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.45%) SLA
4 4 (3.64%) WCAG
5 1 (0.91%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) Ansible
3 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.73%) Puppet
3 3 (2.73%) Terraform
4 2 (1.82%) Grafana
4 2 (1.82%) Graylog
4 2 (1.82%) Nagios
4 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.82%) SCCM
4 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.91%) Nessus
5 1 (0.91%) Rancher
5 1 (0.91%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.91%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 42 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.82%) Oracle
3 6 (5.45%) Cadence
3 6 (5.45%) iManage
4 3 (2.73%) Citrix
4 3 (2.73%) Databricks
4 3 (2.73%) IBM
4 3 (2.73%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.73%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.73%) VMware
5 2 (1.82%) Informatica
5 2 (1.82%) NEC
5 2 (1.82%) Sparx
5 2 (1.82%) Splunk
5 2 (1.82%) Temenos
6 1 (0.91%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.91%) Synology
6 1 (0.91%) Veracode
6 1 (0.91%) Zerto