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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 45 30
Rank change year-on-year -37 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 56 91 138
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.28% 4.61% 5.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.56% 21.02% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 63 85
10th Percentile £335 £408 £363
25th Percentile £413 £488 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +13.86% -19.20%
75th Percentile £638 £677 £656
90th Percentile £738 £690 £818
London median daily rate £500 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -6.52%
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 413 433 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.79% 21.91% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 280 360
10th Percentile £350 £404 £411
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £702
90th Percentile £742 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%

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 18 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 18 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 -41 47 £475 -17.39% 35
City of Westminster 0 3 £613 -
West End of London -1 3 £605 +0.83% 1
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 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 31 (55.36%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (17.86%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (16.07%) AWS
5 8 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 7 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (12.50%) GitHub
7 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (7.14%) SaaS
8 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.79%) GCP
10 1 (1.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) Multicast
2 1 (1.79%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (16.07%) Power BI
2 9 (16.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.36%) Redis
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.57%) Metadata
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) ERwin
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (1.79%) JUnit
3 1 (1.79%) Maven
3 1 (1.79%) Mockito
3 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Banking
3 4 (7.14%) Front Office
4 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Back Office
5 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Local Government
5 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) DBA
4 6 (10.71%) Consultant
4 6 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (10.71%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (10.71%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (8.93%) Administrator
5 5 (8.93%) SQL DBA
6 4 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Applications Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Applications Support Manager
7 2 (3.57%) C# Developer - Commodities
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Data Migration Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
2 3 (5.36%) React
3 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) Spring
3 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Java Concurrency
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) Micronaut
4 1 (1.79%) Next.js
4 1 (1.79%) Playwright
4 1 (1.79%) PySpark
4 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.79%) XML
4 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.57%) Derivative
2 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.79%) Life Science
3 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.79%) NHS
3 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
4 1 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) DevOps
2 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (21.43%) Analytics
4 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.64%) Data Modelling
5 10 (17.86%) ETL
6 9 (16.07%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.07%) Data Engineering
6 9 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (14.29%) Migration
8 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.50%) Validation
9 6 (10.71%) AI
9 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.93%) Data Migration
10 5 (8.93%) Roadmaps
11 4 (7.14%) Agile
11 4 (7.14%) Data Integration
11 4 (7.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 37 (66.07%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 9 (16.07%) C#
4 6 (10.71%) Java
4 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.93%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.79%) Bicep
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) Scala
8 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) CCA
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.93%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) GridGain
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.79%) XenApp
4 1 (1.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) SCCM
3 1 (1.79%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (19.64%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (5.36%) Citrix
4 3 (5.36%) Informatica
5 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.57%) VMware
6 1 (1.79%) Denodo
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) Google
6 1 (1.79%) Intapp
6 1 (1.79%) RedGate
6 1 (1.79%) SAP
6 1 (1.79%) Solace
6 1 (1.79%) Sybase