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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -33 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 61 117 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.13% 5.09% 5.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.49% 24.17% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 87 129
10th Percentile £404 £385 £425
25th Percentile £410 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £700
90th Percentile £680 £750 £775
London median daily rate £550 £538 £568
% change year-on-year +2.33% -5.29% -2.16%

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 421 484 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.62% 21.04% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 350 445
10th Percentile £382 £413 £382
25th Percentile £425 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £717 £705
90th Percentile £798 £816 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
London median hourly rate £52.50 £49.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +7.14% -8.84% -2.27%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 -31 57 £498 -13.43% 31
West End of London 0 1 - - 1
City of Westminster - 1 - - 1
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 3 (4.92%) Apache
1 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) IIS
2 2 (3.28%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) CICS
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (4.92%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.64%) Endur
3 1 (1.64%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.64%) Maximo
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.64%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Azure
2 12 (19.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (11.48%) PaaS
4 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.56%) AWS
5 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.56%) IaaS
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.56%) PowerApps
5 4 (6.56%) SaaS
6 3 (4.92%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.92%) Serverless
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
1 2 (3.28%) HTTP
1 2 (3.28%) SSH
2 1 (1.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Power BI
2 8 (13.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.20%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.92%) MySQL
6 2 (3.28%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.28%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (3.28%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (3.28%) Tableau
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) RStudio
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) JMeter
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (45.90%) Finance
2 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Banking
4 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Legal
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Front Office
8 1 (1.64%) Back Office
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) International Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (45.90%) Developer
2 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) .NET Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Applications Developer
3 6 (9.84%) C# Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
4 5 (8.20%) DBA
5 4 (6.56%) Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Automation Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.92%) BPM Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Django Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (32.79%) .NET
2 7 (11.48%) CSS
2 7 (11.48%) HTML
3 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.56%) React
5 3 (4.92%) Django
5 3 (4.92%) JSON
5 3 (4.92%) Leaflet
5 3 (4.92%) WPF
6 2 (3.28%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.28%) jQuery
6 2 (3.28%) pydantic
6 2 (3.28%) PySpark
6 2 (3.28%) Spring
6 2 (3.28%) Vue
6 2 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
1 4 (6.56%) Derivative
1 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.28%) Clustering
2 2 (3.28%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.28%) Pricing Data
2 2 (3.28%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.28%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.28%) Replication
3 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.64%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Linux
2 9 (14.75%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Unix
4 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.64%) AIX
6 1 (1.64%) Solaris
6 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) Agile
1 15 (24.59%) Data Analysis
2 14 (22.95%) DevOps
3 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.39%) Visualisation
4 8 (13.11%) Data Modelling
4 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.48%) ETL
5 7 (11.48%) Test Automation
6 6 (9.84%) SDLC
6 6 (9.84%) Unit Testing
7 4 (6.56%) Business Case
7 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (6.56%) Data Reconciliation
7 4 (6.56%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (6.56%) Migration
7 4 (6.56%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (6.56%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) SQL
2 24 (39.34%) C#
3 12 (19.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.39%) Python
5 6 (9.84%) VBA
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
6 4 (6.56%) Java
7 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.92%) Scala
8 2 (3.28%) AWK
8 2 (3.28%) sed
8 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) COBOL
9 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.64%) Perl
9 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.28%) MCITP
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) SLA
4 1 (1.64%) GAAP
4 1 (1.64%) IFRS
4 1 (1.64%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) GPFS
2 2 (3.28%) NFS
3 1 (1.64%) GridGain
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (3.28%) SCOM
2 1 (1.64%) Ambari
2 1 (1.64%) Puppet
2 1 (1.64%) WMI
2 1 (1.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (42.62%) Oracle
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) HP
4 3 (4.92%) OpenText
4 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.92%) UiPath
5 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.28%) Sybase
6 1 (1.64%) Avaya
6 1 (1.64%) Calypso
6 1 (1.64%) Citrix
6 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.64%) NetApp
6 1 (1.64%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.64%) Portware
6 1 (1.64%) Solace
6 1 (1.64%) Spotify
6 1 (1.64%) VMware