SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 89 128 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.46% 5.23% 5.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.89% 24.15% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 75 136
10th Percentile £425 £363 £423
25th Percentile £509 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £505 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% -19.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £690 £838 £781
London median daily rate £575 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +6.98% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.32 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

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 426 530 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.33% 21.67% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 360 520
10th Percentile £404 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

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 May 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 -5 80 £585 +10.12% 54
West End of London -11 3 £600 +18.81% 8
City of Westminster -7 1 - - 3
Southwark - 1 £450 -
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 7 (7.87%) Apache
1 7 (7.87%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.49%) IIS
2 4 (4.49%) Jupyter
2 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.12%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) SPSS
2 1 (1.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.25%) Actimize
3 1 (1.12%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.82%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) AWS
2 17 (19.10%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.87%) GitHub
3 7 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (6.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 6 (6.74%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
4 6 (6.74%) CloudFront
4 6 (6.74%) Route 53
5 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (5.62%) SaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) SSH
3 3 (3.37%) Firewall
4 2 (2.25%) HTTP
4 2 (2.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 14 (15.73%) Power BI
3 10 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (8.99%) Redis
6 6 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (6.74%) BusinessObjects
6 6 (6.74%) Crystal Reports
6 6 (6.74%) DocumentDB
6 6 (6.74%) MySQL
6 6 (6.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.62%) Big Data
7 5 (5.62%) Delta Lake
7 5 (5.62%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.62%) Tableau
8 4 (4.49%) Apache Hive
8 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Git
2 8 (8.99%) JIRA
3 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.49%) RStudio
5 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.25%) GitLab
6 2 (2.25%) JMeter
6 2 (2.25%) Postman
6 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.12%) Maven
7 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.12%) Selenium
7 1 (1.12%) Serena SBM
7 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.12%) Subversion
7 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (47.19%) Finance
2 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.72%) Banking
4 8 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.74%) Back Office
6 6 (6.74%) Retail Banking
7 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Front Office
9 2 (2.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.12%) Advertising
10 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Developer
2 14 (15.73%) Analyst
3 12 (13.48%) C# Developer
4 11 (12.36%) Senior
5 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Consultant
7 5 (5.62%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.49%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.72%) .NET
2 15 (16.85%) RESTful
3 10 (11.24%) GraphQL
3 10 (11.24%) Web Services
4 9 (10.11%) React
5 7 (7.87%) JSON
5 7 (7.87%) Kafka
5 7 (7.87%) REST
6 6 (6.74%) CSS
6 6 (6.74%) HTML
7 5 (5.62%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (5.62%) OAuth
7 5 (5.62%) PySpark
8 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.49%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.49%) Pandas
8 4 (4.49%) pydantic
8 4 (4.49%) Spring
8 4 (4.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Derivative
1 8 (8.99%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.62%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.49%) Clustering
4 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.37%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.25%) Replication
7 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Equities
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Windows
2 15 (16.85%) Linux
3 12 (13.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.62%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.60%) Agile
3 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
4 17 (19.10%) DevOps
5 12 (13.48%) SOLID
5 12 (13.48%) Unit Testing
6 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
7 10 (11.24%) Migration
7 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
8 9 (10.11%) Data Management
8 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
8 9 (10.11%) TDD
9 8 (8.99%) Data Modelling
9 8 (8.99%) User Experience
10 7 (7.87%) Asset Management
10 7 (7.87%) CRM
10 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (7.87%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (7.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) C#
2 32 (35.96%) SQL
3 23 (25.84%) Python
4 16 (17.98%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.36%) Java
6 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.87%) Scala
8 5 (5.62%) Bash
8 5 (5.62%) T-SQL
8 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.49%) Perl
9 4 (4.49%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.37%) R
11 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.25%) Ruby
12 1 (1.12%) Bicep
12 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) Degree
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) VCAP
4 2 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) GDPR
2 5 (5.62%) EMIR
2 5 (5.62%) MiFID
3 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.49%) QA
4 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.25%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.62%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.99%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Ansible
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.25%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.12%) Control-M
4 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (1.12%) QRadar
4 1 (1.12%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Oracle
2 22 (24.72%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.99%) Databricks
5 7 (7.87%) Sybase
6 5 (5.62%) VMware
7 3 (3.37%) Informatica
7 3 (3.37%) SAP
8 2 (2.25%) Atempo
8 2 (2.25%) F5
8 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.25%) ION Trading
8 2 (2.25%) Mellanox
9 1 (1.12%) Avaya
9 1 (1.12%) BMC
9 1 (1.12%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.12%) HP
9 1 (1.12%) Qualys
9 1 (1.12%) Solace
9 1 (1.12%) Splunk