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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 48 42
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 -21
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 43 88 124
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.12% 3.97% 4.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.56% 19.82% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 61 92
10th Percentile £348 £400 £425
25th Percentile £435 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £695
90th Percentile £672 £688 £825
London median daily rate £516 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% -4.35% -4.17%

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 372 444 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.31% 20.05% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 293 374
10th Percentile £338 £408 £400
25th Percentile £413 £481 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £710
90th Percentile £749 £788 £821
London median daily rate £525 £565 £570
% change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -46 38 £513 -11.64% 28
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 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) CICS
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub
6 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.98%) IaaS
7 3 (6.98%) PaaS
7 3 (6.98%) SaaS
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (11.63%) Power BI
4 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.30%) MySQL
4 4 (9.30%) Redis
4 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.33%) Informix
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.33%) OLAP
7 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.33%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (6.98%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) JUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) jMock
4 1 (2.33%) Mockito
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (37.21%) Finance
2 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Law
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Senior
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) C# Developer
4 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) DBA
4 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.98%) SQL DBA
5 2 (4.65%) Administrator
5 2 (4.65%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.65%) Applications Support Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) CSS
2 3 (6.98%) HTML
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.65%) JSON
3 2 (4.65%) Spring
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.65%) XML
4 1 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.33%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (2.33%) JPA
4 1 (2.33%) MyBatis
4 1 (2.33%) PySpark
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Derivative
2 3 (6.98%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) State Machine
4 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) AIX
5 1 (2.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) DevOps
2 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (16.28%) ETL
4 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
4 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (11.63%) Analytics
5 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (11.63%) Data Modelling
6 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.30%) Data Analysis
6 4 (9.30%) Microservices
6 4 (9.30%) Process Improvement
6 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.30%) Visualisation
7 3 (6.98%) Data Governance
7 3 (6.98%) Data Migration
7 3 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.98%) Test Strategy
7 3 (6.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) SQL
2 8 (18.60%) C#
3 7 (16.28%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.33%) COBOL
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.65%) MCITP
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.65%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Docker
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.33%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.65%) SCOM
3 1 (2.33%) Ambari
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Puppet
3 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Oracle
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) HP
3 2 (4.65%) Informatica
3 2 (4.65%) Intapp
3 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 2 (4.65%) Solace
3 2 (4.65%) Sybase
3 2 (4.65%) Talend
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.33%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.33%) NetApp
4 1 (2.33%) UiPath