SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 49 29
Rank change year-on-year -30 -20 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 65 84 143
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.52% 4.40% 5.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.01% 20.00% 26.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 94
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £413 £446 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £505
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +13.37% -19.20%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £675
90th Percentile £691 £722 £814
London median daily rate £519 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -9.78% +6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £19.50 £26.32 -
% change year-on-year -25.91% - -

All Database & BI 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 433 420 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.76% 22.00% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 280 379
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £708
90th Percentile £745 £775 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.53 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £29.07 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £85.50 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £37.81 £48.00
% change year-on-year +32.26% -21.24% -12.73%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Central London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Central London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SQL Server

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 13 June 2026. 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 -28 54 £500 -12.66% 20
City of Westminster -2 5 £630 - 1
West End of London -2 4 £650 +8.33% 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £575 -
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.15%) Apache
2 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.08%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.00%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.46%) AWS
4 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (12.31%) GitHub
6 8 (12.31%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.15%) SaaS
9 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.08%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.54%) Datadog
11 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) DHCP
1 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (1.54%) Intranet
3 1 (1.54%) Multicast
3 1 (1.54%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) Power BI
2 9 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.15%) Redis
6 3 (4.62%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Metadata
7 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.08%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.08%) ERwin
4 2 (3.08%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.54%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.54%) GitLab
5 1 (1.54%) JUnit
5 1 (1.54%) Maven
5 1 (1.54%) Mockito
5 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (26.15%) Finance
2 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Front Office
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Back Office
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 7 (10.77%) C# Developer
3 7 (10.77%) DBA
4 6 (9.23%) Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Administrator
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) SQL DBA
7 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.15%) Kafka
4 4 (6.15%) React
4 4 (6.15%) REST
5 3 (4.62%) Spring
5 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.08%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (3.08%) Micronaut
6 2 (3.08%) Next.js
6 2 (3.08%) PySpark
6 2 (3.08%) XML
7 1 (1.54%) CSS
7 1 (1.54%) HTML
7 1 (1.54%) SOAP
7 1 (1.54%) Web Services
7 1 (1.54%) XSL
7 1 (1.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.08%) Derivative
3 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.08%) Replication
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Life Science
4 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) Windows
2 11 (16.92%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.69%) Linux
4 2 (3.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) VMS
5 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) DevOps
2 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.00%) Analytics
4 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
5 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 10 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (15.38%) ETL
6 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (15.38%) Migration
7 9 (13.85%) Agile
8 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (10.77%) AI
9 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.77%) Unit Testing
10 5 (7.69%) Data Analysis
10 5 (7.69%) Data Governance
10 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.00%) SQL
2 18 (27.69%) C#
3 15 (23.08%) Python
4 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.31%) T-SQL
6 6 (9.23%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
7 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.54%) Bicep
9 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.54%) Go
9 1 (1.54%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) CCA
6 1 (1.54%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) QA
2 7 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.54%) GridGain
5 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.54%) XenApp
5 1 (1.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.31%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.54%) SCCM
3 1 (1.54%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.46%) Oracle
3 5 (7.69%) Citrix
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 3 (4.62%) Informatica
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.54%) Dell
6 1 (1.54%) Denodo
6 1 (1.54%) EMC
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Isilon
6 1 (1.54%) RedGate
6 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.54%) Solace
6 1 (1.54%) Sybase