SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 30 38
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 85 148 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.24% 6.24% 5.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.32% 27.61% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 98 127
10th Percentile £404 £363 £423
25th Percentile £425 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -15.42% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £703
90th Percentile £725 £779 £780
London median daily rate £575 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.32 - £61.25
% change year-on-year - - +11.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 440 536 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.95% 22.62% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 378 470
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -4.17% +1.91%
75th Percentile £689 £707 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £801
London median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £22.79 - £42.50
25th Percentile £29.80 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £56.81 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £47.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.74% -20.83% +9.09%

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 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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 -15 79 £570 +6.05% 153
West End of London -7 2 £600 +18.81% 8
City of Westminster -6 1 - - 6
Southwark - 1 £450 -
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 5 (5.88%) Apache
1 5 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.53%) IIS
3 2 (2.35%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) SPSS
2 1 (1.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.53%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (2.35%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.18%) Endur
4 1 (1.18%) Maximo
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (8.24%) AWS
5 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.71%) PaaS
7 4 (4.71%) SaaS
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.53%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.53%) CloudFront
8 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.53%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) DNS
2 3 (3.53%) Firewall
3 2 (2.35%) HTTP
3 2 (2.35%) Network Security
3 2 (2.35%) SSH
4 1 (1.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Power BI
1 12 (14.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 12 (14.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.41%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.06%) BusinessObjects
4 6 (7.06%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (5.88%) Big Data
5 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.88%) Tableau
6 4 (4.71%) MySQL
6 4 (4.71%) Redis
7 3 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.53%) DB2
7 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.53%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
3 2 (2.35%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) JMeter
3 2 (2.35%) RStudio
3 2 (2.35%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.18%) Postman
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (52.94%) Finance
2 27 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Banking
4 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Back Office
6 4 (4.71%) Front Office
6 4 (4.71%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.71%) Legal
7 3 (3.53%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.18%) International Banking
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Developer
2 16 (18.82%) Analyst
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 8 (9.41%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.24%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.06%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Administrator
8 4 (4.71%) Automation Developer
8 4 (4.71%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (4.71%) DBA
8 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) BPM Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.41%) .NET
2 9 (10.59%) REST
3 8 (9.41%) RESTful
4 7 (8.24%) React
5 6 (7.06%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.88%) CSS
6 5 (5.88%) HTML
7 4 (4.71%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.71%) Kafka
7 4 (4.71%) Web Services
8 3 (3.53%) Django
8 3 (3.53%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.53%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (3.53%) JSON
8 3 (3.53%) Leaflet
8 3 (3.53%) Pandas
8 3 (3.53%) PySpark
8 3 (3.53%) Spring
8 3 (3.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.88%) Clustering
2 5 (5.88%) Derivative
2 5 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.53%) Replication
4 3 (3.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.65%) Windows
2 12 (14.12%) Linux
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.53%) Unix
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.18%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) Agile
2 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 15 (17.65%) DevOps
5 13 (15.29%) CI/CD
6 12 (14.12%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.94%) Data Modelling
7 11 (12.94%) Unit Testing
7 11 (12.94%) Visualisation
8 9 (10.59%) Data Management
8 9 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (9.41%) SDLC
9 8 (9.41%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.41%) User Experience
10 7 (8.24%) Business Analysis
10 7 (8.24%) ETL
10 7 (8.24%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (8.24%) Risk Management
11 6 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (7.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) SQL
2 33 (38.82%) C#
3 20 (23.53%) Python
4 15 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.59%) Java
6 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.88%) Scala
6 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.88%) VBA
7 4 (4.71%) Bash
7 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.53%) Perl
8 3 (3.53%) R
9 2 (2.35%) AWK
9 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) sed
9 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) Degree
2 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.71%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.35%) VCAP
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 4 (4.71%) MiFID
4 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.53%) EMIR
5 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.18%) GAAP
6 1 (1.18%) IFRS
6 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) GPFS
3 2 (2.35%) NFS
4 1 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.88%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.35%) Ansible
3 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.18%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (38.82%) Oracle
2 24 (28.24%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Databricks
4 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.71%) VMware
6 3 (3.53%) OpenText
6 3 (3.53%) Sybase
7 2 (2.35%) Atempo
7 2 (2.35%) F5
7 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.35%) Mellanox
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.35%) UiPath
8 1 (1.18%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.18%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.18%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.18%) Portware
8 1 (1.18%) Reuters
8 1 (1.18%) Spotify
8 1 (1.18%) TIBCO