SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 79 125 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.35% 5.84% 5.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.85% 25.41% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 82 118
10th Percentile £404 £363 £424
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £538 £608
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -11.52% +3.40%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £704
90th Percentile £725 £821 £780
Central London median daily rate £570 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +2.13%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 419 492 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.06% 23.00% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 344 438
10th Percentile £404 £400 £414
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £690 £715 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £24.25 - £42.50
25th Percentile £32.66 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (6.33%) Apache
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.80%) IIS
3 2 (2.53%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.80%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (3.80%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.53%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.27%) Endur
3 1 (1.27%) Maximo
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) Azure
2 12 (15.19%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (8.86%) AWS
5 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (5.06%) PaaS
7 4 (5.06%) SaaS
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.80%) CloudFront
8 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub
8 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) HTTP
3 2 (2.53%) Network Security
3 2 (2.53%) SSH
4 1 (1.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (12.66%) Power BI
2 10 (12.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (11.39%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.13%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.59%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (7.59%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (6.33%) Big Data
6 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.33%) Tableau
7 4 (5.06%) MySQL
7 4 (5.06%) Redis
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.80%) DB2
8 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.80%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) JMeter
3 2 (2.53%) RStudio
3 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.27%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.27%) Postman
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (55.70%) Finance
2 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.78%) Banking
4 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.06%) Back Office
6 4 (5.06%) Front Office
6 4 (5.06%) Legal
7 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.80%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Advertising
8 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) International Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) Developer
2 16 (20.25%) Analyst
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
4 8 (10.13%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.59%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Administrator
8 4 (5.06%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.06%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.06%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) DBA
9 3 (3.80%) BPM Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Consultant
9 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.65%) .NET
2 8 (10.13%) REST
2 8 (10.13%) RESTful
3 7 (8.86%) React
4 6 (7.59%) .NET Framework
5 5 (6.33%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.33%) CSS
5 5 (6.33%) HTML
6 4 (5.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.06%) Kafka
7 3 (3.80%) Django
7 3 (3.80%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.80%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (3.80%) JSON
7 3 (3.80%) Leaflet
7 3 (3.80%) Pandas
7 3 (3.80%) PySpark
7 3 (3.80%) Spring
7 3 (3.80%) Web Services
7 3 (3.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.33%) Clustering
2 5 (6.33%) Derivative
2 5 (6.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.80%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.80%) Replication
4 3 (3.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.46%) Windows
2 12 (15.19%) Linux
3 7 (8.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.11%) Agile
2 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.25%) Data Analysis
4 15 (18.99%) DevOps
5 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.19%) Test Automation
7 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
7 11 (13.92%) Unit Testing
8 10 (12.66%) Visualisation
9 9 (11.39%) Data Management
9 9 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.13%) SDLC
10 8 (10.13%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.86%) Business Analysis
11 7 (8.86%) ETL
11 7 (8.86%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (8.86%) User Experience
12 6 (7.59%) Design Patterns
12 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (7.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (54.43%) SQL
2 32 (40.51%) C#
3 20 (25.32%) Python
4 14 (17.72%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.39%) Java
6 5 (6.33%) Scala
6 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.33%) VBA
7 4 (5.06%) Bash
7 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.80%) Perl
9 2 (2.53%) AWK
9 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.53%) R
9 2 (2.53%) sed
9 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) VCAP
4 2 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) QA
2 5 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.06%) GDPR
3 4 (5.06%) MiFID
4 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.80%) EMIR
5 2 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.27%) GAAP
6 1 (1.27%) IFRS
6 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.53%) GPFS
2 2 (2.53%) NFS
3 1 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.33%) Terraform
2 4 (5.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) Oracle
2 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Databricks
4 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.06%) VMware
6 3 (3.80%) OpenText
6 3 (3.80%) Sybase
7 2 (2.53%) Atempo
7 2 (2.53%) F5
7 2 (2.53%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.53%) Mellanox
7 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.53%) UiPath
8 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.27%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.27%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.27%) Portware
8 1 (1.27%) Reuters
8 1 (1.27%) Spotify
8 1 (1.27%) TIBCO