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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 46 39
Rank change year-on-year -34 -7 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 47 92 144
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.41% 3.84% 5.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.88% 18.78% 25.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 65 106
10th Percentile £406 £400 £425
25th Percentile £446 £475 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £688
90th Percentile £698 £745 £806
London median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -5.42%

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 365 490 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 18.71% 20.46% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 332 384
10th Percentile £353 £408 £375
25th Percentile £427 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £32.15 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.38 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £45.53
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.16% -17.22%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 -32 43 £575 - 26
West End of London +11 1 - -
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 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.13%) CICS
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) IIS
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.13%) Endur
2 1 (2.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.13%) Maximo
2 1 (2.13%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (2.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.51%) PaaS
5 3 (6.38%) IaaS
5 3 (6.38%) SaaS
5 3 (6.38%) Serverless
6 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (10.64%) Power BI
2 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (8.51%) MySQL
3 4 (8.51%) Redis
4 3 (6.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.13%) Informix
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.13%) OLAP
6 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
1 4 (8.51%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (6.38%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Maven
3 2 (4.26%) JUnit
3 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) jMock
4 1 (2.13%) Mockito
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Investment Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) C# Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) DBA
5 3 (6.38%) Administrator
5 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.38%) Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Applications Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Applications Support Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Database Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.26%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.26%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) .NET
2 6 (12.77%) CSS
2 6 (12.77%) HTML
3 5 (10.64%) .NET Core
3 5 (10.64%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.64%) REST
4 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.38%) jQuery
4 3 (6.38%) React
5 2 (4.26%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.26%) JSON
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
5 2 (4.26%) Spring
5 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.26%) Vue
5 2 (4.26%) XML
6 1 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Derivative
2 3 (6.38%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.26%) Clustering
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Replication
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) State Machine
4 1 (2.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Windows
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) AIX
5 1 (2.13%) Solaris
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) DevOps
2 8 (17.02%) ETL
3 7 (14.89%) Agile
3 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.77%) Microservices
4 6 (12.77%) Migration
4 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (10.64%) Analytics
5 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (10.64%) Data Analysis
5 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (10.64%) SDLC
6 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.51%) Data Modelling
6 4 (8.51%) Process Improvement
6 4 (8.51%) Visualisation
7 3 (6.38%) Data Governance
7 3 (6.38%) Data Migration
7 3 (6.38%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (51.06%) SQL
2 15 (31.91%) C#
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.64%) Python
5 4 (8.51%) Java
6 2 (4.26%) AWK
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) sed
6 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.26%) VBA
7 1 (2.13%) COBOL
7 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.26%) MCITP
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) GPFS
2 2 (4.26%) NFS
3 1 (2.13%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) GridGain
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (4.26%) SCOM
2 1 (2.13%) Ambari
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Puppet
2 1 (2.13%) WMI
2 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Oracle
2 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) HP
3 2 (4.26%) Informatica
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Solace
3 2 (4.26%) Sybase
3 2 (4.26%) Talend
4 1 (2.13%) Citrix
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.13%) Intapp
4 1 (2.13%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.13%) NetApp
4 1 (2.13%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.13%) OpenText
4 1 (2.13%) Portware
4 1 (2.13%) Spotify
4 1 (2.13%) UiPath