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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 46 30
Rank change year-on-year -36 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 60 86 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.40% 4.56% 5.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.99% 20.82% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 62 89
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £409 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +13.37% -19.20%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £674 £722 £838
London median daily rate £500 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -7.83%
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 -
% change year-on-year -25.91% - -

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 429 413 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.18% 21.89% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 277 364
10th Percentile £350 £404 £408
25th Percentile £450 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £749 £763 £784
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £20.27 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £25.93 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.86 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -34.31% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £51.01 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £80.40 -
London median hourly rate £47.25 £34.83 £49.25
% change year-on-year +35.68% -29.29% -6.19%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -39 52 £467 -18.38% 12
City of Westminster -1 3 £613 -
West End of London -2 3 £605 +0.83%
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 10 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.33%) Apache
2 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 34 (56.67%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
3 12 (20.00%) AWS
3 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (13.33%) Power Automate
6 7 (11.67%) GitHub
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.67%) SaaS
9 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.67%) Datadog
11 1 (1.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DHCP
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (1.67%) Multicast
3 1 (1.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.67%) Power BI
3 9 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 3 (5.00%) Delta Lake
6 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 3 (5.00%) Redis
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.33%) Metadata
7 2 (3.33%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.33%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.67%) OLAP
8 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) ERwin
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Mockito
4 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Front Office
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Back Office
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 12 (20.00%) Developer
2 10 (16.67%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) DBA
4 6 (10.00%) Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (8.33%) Administrator
5 5 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.33%) SQL DBA
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Architect
7 2 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) .NET
2 4 (6.67%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.00%) PySpark
3 3 (5.00%) React
4 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (3.33%) REST
4 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.67%) CSS
5 1 (1.67%) HTML
5 1 (1.67%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (1.67%) JSON
5 1 (1.67%) Micronaut
5 1 (1.67%) Next.js
5 1 (1.67%) XML
5 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.33%) Derivative
2 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.67%) Clustering
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) NHS
3 1 (1.67%) PKI
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Windows
2 9 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) VMS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) DevOps
2 13 (21.67%) Analytics
2 13 (21.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (21.67%) Data Modelling
3 11 (18.33%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (18.33%) ETL
3 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 9 (15.00%) Migration
6 7 (11.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.00%) AI
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.00%) Validation
8 5 (8.33%) Agile
8 5 (8.33%) Data Governance
8 5 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.67%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) SQL
2 14 (23.33%) Python
3 10 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.00%) Java
5 6 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 5 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) Bicep
9 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
9 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) CCA
5 1 (1.67%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.67%) GridGain
5 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) XenApp
5 1 (1.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Databricks
4 4 (6.67%) Citrix
4 4 (6.67%) VMware
5 3 (5.00%) Informatica
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco
6 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.67%) Dell
7 1 (1.67%) Denodo
7 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.67%) EMC
7 1 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (1.67%) Intapp
7 1 (1.67%) Isilon
7 1 (1.67%) RedGate
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Solace
7 1 (1.67%) Sybase