SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 34 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 128 227 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.19% 5.79% 5.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.02% 26.83% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 143 193
10th Percentile £367 £425 £390
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £719 £653
90th Percentile £838 £785 £736
London median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +1.12%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 533 846 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.61% 21.58% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 538 790
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £691 £725 £698
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
London median daily rate £563 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
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% +178.48%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £48.50 £47.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year +2.11% -7.77% +46.35%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 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
City of London -11 103 £538 -14.00% 45
West End of London +12 12 £505 -26.55% 2
City of Westminster +7 9 £650 +8.33% 4
Camden - 6 £505 -
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 7 (5.47%) IIS
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.56%) JBoss
4 2 (1.56%) nginx
4 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.78%) Tornado
5 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Endur
2 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.56%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.56%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 56 (43.75%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.16%) AWS
5 9 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.47%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (4.69%) Azure Pipelines
7 6 (4.69%) GitHub
8 5 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (3.91%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.34%) GCP
10 3 (2.34%) Serverless
11 2 (1.56%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.47%) Firewall
2 6 (4.69%) Internet
3 4 (3.13%) DNS
4 2 (1.56%) SSL
4 2 (1.56%) WAN
4 2 (1.56%) Wireless
5 1 (0.78%) DHCP
5 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.78%) LAN
5 1 (0.78%) NAS
5 1 (0.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.78%) Softphone
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.72%) Relational Database
1 15 (11.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (10.94%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.38%) MySQL
3 12 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.59%) Power BI
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (5.47%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.69%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 6 (4.69%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.34%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.34%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.56%) Parquet
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 19 (14.84%) Git
2 11 (8.59%) JIRA
3 9 (7.03%) TeamCity
4 7 (5.47%) Selenium
5 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.69%) SpecFlow
6 4 (3.13%) Postman
6 4 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.34%) Burp Suite
7 3 (2.34%) GitLab
7 3 (2.34%) Subversion
8 2 (1.56%) AppScan
8 2 (1.56%) ERwin
8 2 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.56%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) NUnit
General
1 30 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.72%) Banking
2 15 (11.72%) Finance
3 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.69%) Legal
5 6 (4.69%) Retail
6 4 (3.13%) Back Office
6 4 (3.13%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Front Office
7 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.78%) Electronics
8 1 (0.78%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.78%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.78%) Police
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (44.53%) Developer
2 22 (17.19%) Senior
3 12 (9.38%) Analyst
3 12 (9.38%) C# Developer
4 11 (8.59%) Senior Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Lead
6 7 (5.47%) Quantitative Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (5.47%) Senior Software Developer
6 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) .NET Developer
7 6 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Python Developer
8 5 (3.91%) DevOps Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Market Risk Developer
8 5 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (31.25%) .NET
2 20 (15.63%) XML
3 16 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 12 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 10 (7.81%) ASP.NET
5 10 (7.81%) Web Services
6 9 (7.03%) Kafka
7 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.47%) JSON
9 6 (4.69%) HTML
9 6 (4.69%) WCF
10 5 (3.91%) ARM Templates
10 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.91%) REST
10 5 (3.91%) WinForms
11 4 (3.13%) CSS
11 4 (3.13%) React
12 3 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.34%) Entity Framework
12 3 (2.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Hedge funds
1 7 (5.47%) Market Risk
1 7 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.69%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.91%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.34%) Contactless
4 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.56%) BYOD
5 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.56%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Clustering
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Equities
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.09%) Windows
2 15 (11.72%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.59%) Linux
4 6 (4.69%) Unix
5 3 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.78%) CentOS
7 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.88%) DevOps
2 54 (42.19%) Agile
3 25 (19.53%) SDLC
4 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (18.75%) Scrum
5 21 (16.41%) CI/CD
5 21 (16.41%) Migration
6 18 (14.06%) ETL
7 15 (11.72%) Software Engineering
8 14 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (10.94%) Data Modelling
9 12 (9.38%) Computer Science
9 12 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (8.59%) Data Analysis
10 11 (8.59%) Microservices
11 10 (7.81%) Project Management
12 9 (7.03%) Analytics
12 9 (7.03%) Kanban
13 8 (6.25%) Configuration Management
13 8 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (53.13%) SQL
2 59 (46.09%) C#
3 37 (28.91%) PowerShell
4 22 (17.19%) Python
5 19 (14.84%) T-SQL
6 13 (10.16%) Java
7 10 (7.81%) PL/SQL
8 9 (7.03%) Bicep
8 9 (7.03%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.47%) XPath
10 6 (4.69%) XQuery
11 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
12 4 (3.13%) Bash
13 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.56%) Perl
15 1 (0.78%) C
15 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.78%) PHP
15 1 (0.78%) R
15 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (10.94%) Degree
2 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (5.47%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.56%) SANS
4 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.78%) ISEB
4 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.78%) MCSA
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.81%) QA
3 6 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.69%) SLA
4 3 (2.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.78%) EMIR
5 1 (0.78%) FATCA
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.78%) MiFID
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (11.72%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) Docker
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) ACF2
4 1 (0.78%) IAG
4 1 (0.78%) RACF
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (2.34%) Grafana
3 3 (2.34%) Graylog
3 3 (2.34%) Nagios
3 3 (2.34%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.34%) Puppet
3 3 (2.34%) Terraform
4 2 (1.56%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.56%) Nessus
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.56%) SCCM
4 2 (1.56%) WebInspect
5 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 51 (39.84%) Microsoft
2 36 (28.13%) Oracle
3 6 (4.69%) Cadence
3 6 (4.69%) iManage
3 6 (4.69%) SAP
4 4 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.34%) IBM
5 3 (2.34%) Informatica
5 3 (2.34%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.34%) Splunk
5 3 (2.34%) VMware
6 2 (1.56%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.56%) Citrix
6 2 (1.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.56%) NEC
6 2 (1.56%) Sparx
6 2 (1.56%) Sybase
6 2 (1.56%) Temenos
6 2 (1.56%) Veracode
7 1 (0.78%) Avaya