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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 44 37
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 50 91 129
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.24% 4.44% 5.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.66% 21.93% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 79
10th Percentile £367 £419 £381
25th Percentile £440 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +7.41% -10.93%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £684
90th Percentile £738 £696 £838
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -6.78%

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 395 415 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.67% 20.23% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 277 365
10th Percentile £341 £405 £402
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £741 £750 £838
London median daily rate £525 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £30.29 -
25th Percentile £55.81 £32.12 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £35.29 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.71% -27.25% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £38.58 £50.25
90th Percentile - £40.48 -
London median hourly rate £48.25 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +16.27% -7.78% +3.14%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -42 42 £525 -10.26% 34
West End of London +9 3 £605 +0.83%
City of Westminster +4 2 £605 +18.05%
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 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 4 (8.00%) SaaS
7 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.00%) dbt
8 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.00%) Datadog
9 1 (2.00%) GCP
9 1 (2.00%) PaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.00%) Power BI
4 4 (8.00%) Redis
5 3 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.00%) MySQL
5 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.00%) Metadata
6 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.00%) OLAP
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
1 4 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) ERwin
3 2 (4.00%) JUnit
3 2 (4.00%) Maven
3 2 (4.00%) Mockito
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) jMock
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.00%) Local Government
6 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Senior
3 7 (14.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) DBA
4 5 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) SQL DBA
6 3 (6.00%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Applications Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Applications Support Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Data Migration Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 3 (6.00%) CSS
2 3 (6.00%) HTML
2 3 (6.00%) JSON
2 3 (6.00%) XML
3 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (4.00%) Kafka
3 2 (4.00%) React
3 2 (4.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) Spring
3 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.00%) jQuery
4 1 (2.00%) MyBatis
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) WinForms
4 1 (2.00%) WPF
4 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.00%) Derivative
3 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Market Risk
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.00%) DevOps
3 11 (22.00%) ETL
4 8 (16.00%) Analytics
4 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.00%) Migration
6 6 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 5 (10.00%) Microservices
7 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.00%) Agile
8 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis
8 4 (8.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (8.00%) Process Improvement
8 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (8.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) Python
3 9 (18.00%) C#
4 6 (12.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
7 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) CCA
3 1 (2.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) XenApp
3 1 (2.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) Databricks
3 4 (8.00%) Informatica
4 2 (4.00%) Citrix
4 2 (4.00%) Intapp
4 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) Talend
5 1 (2.00%) Denodo
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.00%) Solace
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.00%) UiPath