SQL Server Contracts in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 825 1,289 1,995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.66% 4.90% 5.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% 23.97% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 1,015 1,546
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - +10.05%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £695
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £39.05 £22.75
25th Percentile - £43.63 £30.13
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +102.56%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £70.50 £67.92
England median hourly rate £40.13 £43.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -7.76% -12.12% +76.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,849 5,378 8,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.75% 20.46% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,843 3,937 6,142
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £787
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 53 36
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.79 £24.50 £34.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £55.20
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.35% +58.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £69.20 £89.66 £81.88
England median hourly rate £40.25 £57.50 £42.92
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.98% +71.67%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +2 132 £505 -19.20% 64
East London -3 21 £495 +18.56% 14
West London +16 11 £449 -25.17% 13
South London 0 7 £475 -5.00% 7
North London - 3 £250 -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.27%) IIS
3 19 (2.30%) CMS
4 14 (1.70%) Apache
4 14 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.33%) Confluence
6 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.73%) Tornado
8 5 (0.61%) JBoss
8 5 (0.61%) nginx
9 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.06%) Endur
2 14 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.61%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.48%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 431 (52.24%) Azure
2 206 (24.97%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (15.27%) Power Platform
4 104 (12.61%) AWS
5 83 (10.06%) Entra ID
6 74 (8.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 71 (8.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 45 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 42 (5.09%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (4.97%) GitHub
12 40 (4.85%) Serverless
13 38 (4.61%) PowerApps
14 34 (4.12%) Azure Functions
15 33 (4.00%) Power Automate
16 25 (3.03%) PaaS
17 23 (2.79%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.42%) Azure Pipelines
19 19 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
19 19 (2.30%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.91%) Firewall
2 17 (2.06%) Internet
3 15 (1.82%) DNS
4 10 (1.21%) FTP
5 4 (0.48%) NAS
5 4 (0.48%) SAN
5 4 (0.48%) SSL
6 3 (0.36%) HTTP
6 3 (0.36%) SSH
6 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.36%) Wireless
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (13.33%) Power BI
2 102 (12.36%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (10.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 71 (8.61%) Relational Database
5 70 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (7.27%) MySQL
7 55 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 49 (5.94%) NoSQL
9 35 (4.24%) Oracle Database
10 33 (4.00%) Metadata
11 30 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 29 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 28 (3.39%) RDBMS
14 24 (2.91%) Data Lake
15 23 (2.79%) MongoDB
16 20 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
17 17 (2.06%) Redis
18 16 (1.94%) Big Data
19 11 (1.33%) Tableau
20 9 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 98 (11.88%) Git
2 44 (5.33%) JIRA
3 39 (4.73%) SpecFlow
4 36 (4.36%) Visual Studio
5 27 (3.27%) Selenium
6 24 (2.91%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 15 (1.82%) Jenkins
9 14 (1.70%) GitLab
10 13 (1.58%) WebDriver
11 10 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.09%) ERwin
12 9 (1.09%) JMeter
13 8 (0.97%) Visual Studio Team System
14 7 (0.85%) NUnit
14 7 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.73%) Postman
16 5 (0.61%) WiX
General
1 216 (26.18%) Finance
2 176 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 107 (12.97%) Banking
4 96 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 84 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.70%) Back Office
7 33 (4.00%) Front Office
8 31 (3.76%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.82%) Local Government
10 15 (1.82%) Marketing
11 14 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.45%) Retail
12 12 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.21%) Electronics
14 8 (0.97%) Publishing
15 7 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.85%) Legal
16 5 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 385 (46.67%) Developer
2 162 (19.64%) Senior
3 119 (14.42%) Senior Developer
4 114 (13.82%) C# Developer
5 85 (10.30%) .NET Developer
6 56 (6.79%) Software Developer
7 53 (6.42%) Data Engineer
8 49 (5.94%) Analyst
9 47 (5.70%) Azure Developer
10 45 (5.45%) Senior Software Developer
11 44 (5.33%) Architect
12 42 (5.09%) Backend Developer
13 39 (4.73%) C# .NET Developer
14 36 (4.36%) SQL Developer
15 35 (4.24%) Lead
16 32 (3.88%) Consultant
16 32 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (3.76%) Full Stack Developer
18 30 (3.64%) Senior Backend Developer
19 29 (3.52%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (37.58%) .NET
2 137 (16.61%) XML
3 120 (14.55%) .NET Core
4 105 (12.73%) .NET Framework
5 81 (9.82%) HTML
6 77 (9.33%) AngularJS
7 74 (8.97%) ASP.NET
8 62 (7.52%) React
9 58 (7.03%) CSS
10 42 (5.09%) Web Services
11 38 (4.61%) REST
12 34 (4.12%) JSON
12 34 (4.12%) Kafka
13 31 (3.76%) WCF
14 27 (3.27%) jQuery
15 25 (3.03%) SOAP
16 22 (2.67%) ARM Templates
16 22 (2.67%) Entity Framework
16 22 (2.67%) RESTful
17 21 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.03%) Replication
4 22 (2.67%) Hedge funds
5 20 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.30%) Derivative
7 18 (2.18%) Clustering
8 17 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.45%) Equity Derivative
11 11 (1.33%) Contactless
11 11 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.09%) Client/Server
12 9 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.97%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (16.48%) Windows
2 65 (7.88%) Linux
2 65 (7.88%) Windows Server
3 33 (4.00%) Unix
4 26 (3.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.58%) Windows 10
8 9 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.61%) CentOS
10 3 (0.36%) Android
10 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.36%) VMS
10 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.12%) OS/390
12 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (38.79%) Agile
2 290 (35.15%) DevOps
3 157 (19.03%) Scrum
4 156 (18.91%) CI/CD
5 129 (15.64%) Business Intelligence
6 115 (13.94%) Migration
7 114 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (12.48%) ETL
9 101 (12.24%) TDD
10 89 (10.79%) Data Modelling
11 75 (9.09%) OO
12 73 (8.85%) Software Engineering
13 64 (7.76%) B2C
13 64 (7.76%) SDLC
14 59 (7.15%) Data Analysis
15 54 (6.55%) Clean Code
15 54 (6.55%) OOD
16 53 (6.42%) Test Automation
17 52 (6.30%) API Management
18 49 (5.94%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 408 (49.45%) SQL
2 381 (46.18%) C#
3 186 (22.55%) PowerShell
4 106 (12.85%) JavaScript
5 104 (12.61%) T-SQL
6 101 (12.24%) Python
7 96 (11.64%) Bicep
8 80 (9.70%) Java
9 66 (8.00%) PL/SQL
10 46 (5.58%) TypeScript
11 28 (3.39%) VBA
12 20 (2.42%) VB
13 18 (2.18%) VB.NET
14 15 (1.82%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.45%) Bash
16 11 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (1.33%) PHP
17 9 (1.09%) XPath
18 7 (0.85%) C++
18 7 (0.85%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 81 (9.82%) Degree
2 70 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 37 (4.48%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.85%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.36%) CISSP
9 3 (0.36%) MCITP
9 3 (0.36%) MCTS
10 2 (0.24%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.24%) CITP
10 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.24%) MCSE
10 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.30%) QA
2 35 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.55%) WCAG
5 13 (1.58%) SLA
6 12 (1.45%) GDPR
7 11 (1.33%) MiFID
8 5 (0.61%) EMIR
9 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) FATCA
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 178 (21.58%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.88%) Docker
3 16 (1.94%) IAG
4 15 (1.82%) ACF2
4 15 (1.82%) RACF
5 12 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.36%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.12%) vCloud
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.52%) Terraform
3 21 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (2.42%) Ansible
5 18 (2.18%) SCCM
5 18 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.33%) Puppet
7 9 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (1.09%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.85%) Data Guard
8 7 (0.85%) Grafana
9 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.36%) Netcool
12 2 (0.24%) Backup Exec
12 2 (0.24%) Control-M
12 2 (0.24%) Nagios
12 2 (0.24%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 337 (40.85%) Microsoft
2 210 (25.45%) Oracle
3 39 (4.73%) Databricks
4 30 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.27%) Sybase
6 25 (3.03%) Informatica
7 24 (2.91%) Citrix
8 23 (2.79%) SAP
8 23 (2.79%) VMware
9 19 (2.30%) Veeam
10 17 (2.06%) Red Hat
10 17 (2.06%) Sparx
11 12 (1.45%) CA
11 12 (1.45%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.33%) OpenLink
12 11 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.09%) Qualys
13 9 (1.09%) Splunk
14 7 (0.85%) AVEVA
14 7 (0.85%) IBM