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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 105 196 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.81% 5.38% 5.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.78% 25.65% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 123 180
10th Percentile £363 £425 £374
25th Percentile £413 £515 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £645 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +12.17% +6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £678
90th Percentile £838 £775 £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 482 764 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.09% 20.99% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 480 706
10th Percentile £408 £413 £422
25th Percentile £475 £507 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £708 £730 £700
90th Percentile £798 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
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 3 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 (6.67%) IIS
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 2 (1.90%) JBoss
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.90%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.95%) Tornado
4 1 (0.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Endur
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.90%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.90%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.95%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.52%) Azure
2 31 (29.52%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.52%) AWS
5 8 (7.62%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (7.62%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.86%) GitHub
9 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.90%) GCP
10 2 (1.90%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) Firewall
1 6 (5.71%) Internet
2 3 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.95%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.95%) NAS
4 1 (0.95%) SAN
4 1 (0.95%) VPN
4 1 (0.95%) WAN
4 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.43%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (7.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (6.67%) MySQL
4 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.71%) Power BI
6 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.81%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.86%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.86%) Redis
9 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.95%) Big Data
10 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.95%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.95%) Metadata
10 1 (0.95%) Power Query
10 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) TeamCity
3 8 (7.62%) JIRA
3 8 (7.62%) Selenium
4 7 (6.67%) SpecFlow
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.81%) Postman
7 2 (1.90%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.90%) ERwin
7 2 (1.90%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) JMeter
7 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.90%) Subversion
7 2 (1.90%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.95%) Moq
8 1 (0.95%) MSTest
8 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Banking
3 15 (14.29%) Finance
4 11 (10.48%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.71%) Legal
7 5 (4.76%) Back Office
8 4 (3.81%) Front Office
8 4 (3.81%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.95%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.95%) French Language
10 1 (0.95%) German Language
10 1 (0.95%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.95%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.95%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (45.71%) Developer
2 24 (22.86%) Senior
3 15 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Senior Developer
5 8 (7.62%) .NET Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Python Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Backend Developer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Market Risk Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (40.00%) .NET
2 15 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 13 (12.38%) .NET Framework
4 12 (11.43%) ASP.NET
4 12 (11.43%) XML
5 9 (8.57%) Web Services
6 8 (7.62%) Kafka
7 7 (6.67%) HTML
8 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.71%) CSS
8 6 (5.71%) WCF
9 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.76%) React
9 5 (4.76%) REST
9 5 (4.76%) WinForms
10 4 (3.81%) ARM Templates
10 4 (3.81%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.81%) JSON
11 3 (2.86%) Playwright
12 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Market Risk
2 6 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.81%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) Contactless
5 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) BYOD
6 1 (0.95%) Clustering
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.86%) Windows
2 10 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.57%) Linux
4 6 (5.71%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.95%) CentOS
6 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) DevOps
2 48 (45.71%) Agile
3 23 (21.90%) SDLC
4 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
5 19 (18.10%) Migration
6 17 (16.19%) Scrum
7 14 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (10.48%) Computer Science
9 11 (10.48%) Data Analysis
10 10 (9.52%) ETL
11 9 (8.57%) Data Modelling
11 9 (8.57%) Microservices
11 9 (8.57%) OO
12 8 (7.62%) Analytics
12 8 (7.62%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (6.67%) Configuration Management
13 7 (6.67%) Software Deployment
13 7 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (60.95%) C#
2 48 (45.71%) SQL
3 36 (34.29%) PowerShell
4 22 (20.95%) Python
5 12 (11.43%) T-SQL
6 11 (10.48%) Java
7 10 (9.52%) Bicep
7 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.86%) Bash
10 3 (2.86%) Scala
11 2 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.95%) Perl
12 1 (0.95%) PHP
12 1 (0.95%) R
12 1 (0.95%) Ruby
12 1 (0.95%) VBA
12 1 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.90%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.95%) ISEB
4 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.95%) SANS
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.52%) QA
2 8 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.71%) SLA
4 3 (2.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (1.90%) Grafana
3 2 (1.90%) Graylog
3 2 (1.90%) Nagios
3 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.90%) Puppet
3 2 (1.90%) SCCM
3 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.95%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.95%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.95%) Nessus
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.95%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.95%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 38 (36.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.90%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Cadence
3 6 (5.71%) iManage
4 3 (2.86%) Citrix
4 3 (2.86%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) IBM
4 3 (2.86%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.90%) Informatica
5 2 (1.90%) NEC
5 2 (1.90%) Sparx
5 2 (1.90%) Splunk
5 2 (1.90%) Temenos
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.95%) Confluent
6 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.95%) Synology
6 1 (0.95%) Zerto