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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 50 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 75 84 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.90% 4.06% 6.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.16% 18.26% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 96
10th Percentile £354 £404 £363
25th Percentile £434 £424 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% -15.13%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £726 £733 £744
London median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -5.70%
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 £100.00
% change year-on-year -25.91% -73.68% +80.18%

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 437 460 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.91% 22.22% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 306 364
10th Percentile £363 £400 £402
25th Percentile £463 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £564 £584
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -3.44% -2.71%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £710
90th Percentile £754 £775 £786
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.04 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £30.54 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
London median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -24 67 £563 +2.27% 34
West End of London -5 3 £475 -
City of Westminster -6 3 £630 - 7
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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.33%) Apache
2 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 3 (4.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (58.67%) Azure
2 21 (28.00%) Power Platform
3 14 (18.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (13.33%) Power Automate
7 9 (12.00%) AWS
8 8 (10.67%) GitHub
8 8 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (9.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (8.00%) Azure AKS
10 6 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
12 3 (4.00%) SaaS
12 3 (4.00%) Snowflake
13 2 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
14 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (1.33%) Dagster
14 1 (1.33%) dbt
14 1 (1.33%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) DNS
2 3 (4.00%) DHCP
3 2 (2.67%) Internet
3 2 (2.67%) Intranet
3 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.33%) Firewall
4 1 (1.33%) Multicast
4 1 (1.33%) SSH
4 1 (1.33%) VLAN
4 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) Power BI
2 14 (18.67%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (17.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (10.67%) Relational Database
6 7 (9.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (9.33%) Star Schema
7 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (8.00%) Power Query
8 5 (6.67%) Oracle Database
8 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
9 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
9 4 (5.33%) Redis
10 3 (4.00%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.67%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (2.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Git
3 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.33%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.33%) GitLab
7 1 (1.33%) JUnit
7 1 (1.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.33%) Mockito
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (37.33%) Finance
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.00%) Banking
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Front Office
6 4 (5.33%) Retail
7 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.33%) Back Office
9 1 (1.33%) Law
9 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Developer
2 10 (13.33%) C# Developer
2 10 (13.33%) DBA
2 10 (13.33%) Senior
3 9 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) SQL DBA
6 6 (8.00%) Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Dynamics AX Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Functional Consultant
7 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) .NET
2 9 (12.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (8.00%) REST
4 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.33%) Kafka
5 4 (5.33%) React
5 4 (5.33%) Spring
5 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.33%) XML
6 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.67%) ADO.NET
7 2 (2.67%) Ajax
7 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (2.67%) JSON
7 2 (2.67%) Next.js
7 2 (2.67%) PySpark
7 2 (2.67%) SOAP
7 2 (2.67%) Web Services
7 2 (2.67%) XSL
7 2 (2.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.67%) Clustering
1 5 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.00%) Replication
4 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.67%) Derivative
4 2 (2.67%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.67%) Windows
2 14 (18.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.67%) Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Unix
4 3 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) DevOps
2 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (20.00%) Analytics
5 13 (17.33%) ETL
5 13 (17.33%) Migration
6 12 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (14.67%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (13.33%) Agile
9 9 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
10 8 (10.67%) Data Engineering
10 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.33%) AI
11 7 (9.33%) Change Control
11 7 (9.33%) Test Automation
12 6 (8.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (68.00%) SQL
2 25 (33.33%) C#
3 17 (22.67%) PowerShell
4 15 (20.00%) Python
5 12 (16.00%) T-SQL
6 7 (9.33%) PL/SQL
7 6 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (8.00%) Java
8 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.67%) Korn
10 1 (1.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.33%) Bicep
10 1 (1.33%) Go
10 1 (1.33%) Scala
10 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (9.33%) Active Directory
1 7 (9.33%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) Docker
4 1 (1.33%) GridGain
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.67%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (4.00%) SCOM
4 2 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) Packer
5 1 (1.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.67%) Oracle
3 8 (10.67%) VMware
4 7 (9.33%) Databricks
5 5 (6.67%) Citrix
6 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.00%) BMC
7 3 (4.00%) Commvault
7 3 (4.00%) Remedy
8 2 (2.67%) Cisco
8 2 (2.67%) Informatica
8 2 (2.67%) Sitecore
9 1 (1.33%) Dell
9 1 (1.33%) EMC
9 1 (1.33%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.33%) Isilon
9 1 (1.33%) RedGate
9 1 (1.33%) Splunk
9 1 (1.33%) Sybase