SQL Server Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 41 40
Rank change year-on-year -48 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 43 83 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.04% 4.67% 4.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.56% 21.78% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 59 63
10th Percentile £365 £410 £377
25th Percentile £413 £509 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -16.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £664
90th Percentile £738 £707 £835
Central London median daily rate £555 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% +10.48% -12.50%

All Database & BI 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 372 381 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.64% 21.44% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 248 331
10th Percentile £339 £403 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £702
90th Percentile £749 £749 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £34.63 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £34.68 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £48.50
% change year-on-year +81.31% -34.31% -42.32%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in the City of London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Server

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 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 11 (25.58%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
6 4 (9.30%) SaaS
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.65%) dbt
8 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.65%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Multicast
1 1 (2.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 4 (9.30%) Power BI
6 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.98%) MySQL
6 3 (6.98%) Redis
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.65%) Metadata
7 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.65%) OLAP
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (4.65%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
1 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
2 3 (6.98%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.65%) ERwin
3 2 (4.65%) JUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Mockito
3 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) jMock
4 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (34.88%) Finance
2 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Front Office
5 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Local Government
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) DBA
4 4 (9.30%) Administrator
4 4 (9.30%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.65%) Applications Support Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Dynamics AX Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 3 (6.98%) REST
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.65%) JSON
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
3 2 (4.65%) React
3 2 (4.65%) Spring
3 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.65%) XML
4 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) JSP
4 1 (2.33%) MyBatis
4 1 (2.33%) PySpark
4 1 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (2.33%) WinForms
4 1 (2.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Derivative
3 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 11 (25.58%) ETL
3 9 (20.93%) Analytics
3 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.28%) Data Modelling
6 6 (13.95%) Data Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (11.63%) Migration
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Agile
8 4 (9.30%) AI
8 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.30%) Data Analysis
8 4 (9.30%) Data Integration
8 4 (9.30%) Data Migration
8 4 (9.30%) Microservices
8 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (9.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 8 (18.60%) C#
4 7 (16.28%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) CCA
4 1 (2.33%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) GridGain
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) XenApp
2 1 (2.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) SCCM
3 1 (2.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Oracle
2 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) Informatica
4 3 (6.98%) Databricks
5 2 (4.65%) Citrix
5 2 (4.65%) Intapp
5 2 (4.65%) Solace
5 2 (4.65%) Sybase
5 2 (4.65%) Talend
6 1 (2.33%) Denodo
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) ION Trading