SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 36 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 136 207 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.61% 5.47% 4.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.71% 26.10% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 137 173
10th Percentile £363 £413 £406
25th Percentile £438 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £688
90th Percentile £823 £775 £748
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +102.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 529 793 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.82% 20.97% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 512 734
10th Percentile £410 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £790 £788 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +332.14%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.99% +65.97%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 -4 110 £525 -16.00% 56
West End of London +13 11 £505 -26.55% 1
City of Westminster +7 9 £650 +8.33% 1
Camden - 5 £505 -
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 8 (5.88%) IIS
2 4 (2.94%) Apache
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.47%) CMS
4 2 (1.47%) JBoss
4 2 (1.47%) nginx
4 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.74%) Tornado
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Endur
2 2 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.47%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.47%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.47%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.74%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 67 (49.26%) Azure
2 40 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (18.38%) Power Platform
4 15 (11.03%) AWS
5 12 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 12 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 12 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.41%) Azure Pipelines
8 6 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.68%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.94%) GitHub
11 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.21%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.21%) GCP
11 3 (2.21%) Serverless
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) Firewall
1 7 (5.15%) Internet
2 4 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (1.47%) SSL
3 2 (1.47%) WAN
3 2 (1.47%) Wireless
4 1 (0.74%) DHCP
4 1 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.74%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.74%) LAN
4 1 (0.74%) NAS
4 1 (0.74%) SAN
4 1 (0.74%) SSH
4 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (11.76%) Power BI
3 14 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 13 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (5.88%) MySQL
7 6 (4.41%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 6 (4.41%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.68%) Redis
9 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.21%) Big Data
10 3 (2.21%) Data Mining
10 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (14.71%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
2 10 (7.35%) TeamCity
3 8 (5.88%) Selenium
3 8 (5.88%) SpecFlow
4 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.94%) Postman
6 3 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.47%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.47%) ERwin
7 2 (1.47%) GitLab
7 2 (1.47%) JMeter
7 2 (1.47%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.47%) Subversion
7 2 (1.47%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.47%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.74%) AppScan
8 1 (0.74%) NUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 35 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Finance
3 18 (13.24%) Banking
4 11 (8.09%) Investment Banking
5 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Back Office
6 6 (4.41%) Legal
6 6 (4.41%) Retail
7 5 (3.68%) Front Office
8 4 (2.94%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.47%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.74%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.74%) French Language
10 1 (0.74%) German Language
10 1 (0.74%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.74%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 67 (49.26%) Developer
2 29 (21.32%) Senior
3 17 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 16 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 13 (9.56%) Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Azure Developer
7 9 (6.62%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) Senior Software Developer
7 9 (6.62%) SQL Developer
8 8 (5.88%) .NET Developer
8 8 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Lead
9 7 (5.15%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) C# .NET Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (38.24%) .NET
2 24 (17.65%) XML
3 21 (15.44%) .NET Core
4 16 (11.76%) .NET Framework
5 14 (10.29%) ASP.NET
6 10 (7.35%) HTML
7 9 (6.62%) CSS
7 9 (6.62%) Kafka
7 9 (6.62%) React
7 9 (6.62%) Web Services
8 7 (5.15%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.41%) WCF
10 5 (3.68%) Entity Framework
10 5 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (3.68%) WinForms
11 4 (2.94%) ARM Templates
11 4 (2.94%) JSON
11 4 (2.94%) REST
12 3 (2.21%) jQuery
12 3 (2.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Market Risk
3 6 (4.41%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.21%) Contactless
6 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Clustering
7 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) BYOD
8 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.59%) Windows
2 13 (9.56%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.35%) Linux
4 6 (4.41%) Unix
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (50.00%) DevOps
2 64 (47.06%) Agile
3 30 (22.06%) Scrum
4 26 (19.12%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.65%) SDLC
6 23 (16.91%) Migration
6 23 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.50%) ETL
9 15 (11.03%) Data Modelling
10 14 (10.29%) Data Analysis
10 14 (10.29%) Software Engineering
11 12 (8.82%) OO
11 12 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (8.09%) Computer Science
13 10 (7.35%) Analytics
13 10 (7.35%) B2C
13 10 (7.35%) Kanban
13 10 (7.35%) Microservices
13 10 (7.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 73 (53.68%) C#
2 71 (52.21%) SQL
3 43 (31.62%) PowerShell
4 22 (16.18%) Python
5 16 (11.76%) Bicep
5 16 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 12 (8.82%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.35%) Java
7 10 (7.35%) PL/SQL
8 7 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.15%) XPath
9 6 (4.41%) XQuery
10 5 (3.68%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.21%) Bash
12 3 (2.21%) Scala
13 2 (1.47%) Perl
13 2 (1.47%) VBA
14 1 (0.74%) C
14 1 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (10.29%) Degree
2 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.47%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) ISEB
5 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.74%) SANS
5 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) QA
2 10 (7.35%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.15%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.41%) SLA
5 5 (3.68%) WCAG
6 1 (0.74%) EMIR
6 1 (0.74%) FATCA
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) MiFID
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.94%) Ansible
3 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.21%) Puppet
3 3 (2.21%) Terraform
4 2 (1.47%) Grafana
4 2 (1.47%) Graylog
4 2 (1.47%) Nagios
4 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.47%) SCCM
4 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.74%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Nessus
5 1 (0.74%) Rancher
5 1 (0.74%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.74%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 55 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 33 (24.26%) Oracle
3 6 (4.41%) Cadence
3 6 (4.41%) iManage
3 6 (4.41%) SAP
4 4 (2.94%) VMware
5 3 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (2.21%) Databricks
5 3 (2.21%) IBM
5 3 (2.21%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.21%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.47%) Informatica
6 2 (1.47%) NEC
6 2 (1.47%) Sparx
6 2 (1.47%) Splunk
6 2 (1.47%) Temenos
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.74%) Sybase
7 1 (0.74%) TIBCO