SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) London / City of London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	23	14	9
Rank change year-on-year	-9	-5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server	242	291	641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	7.29%	8.75%	11.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	28.14%	36.19%	42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	198	240	525
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£357	£330	£320
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£610	£585
UK excluding London median daily rate	£360	£350	£338
% change year-on-year	+2.85%	+3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	2	2
Median hourly rate	£21.50	£19.00	£23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.15%	-19.14%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£39.50	£32.66	£23.25
% change year-on-year	+20.96%	+40.45%

SQL Server is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills City of London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	860	804	1492
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London	25.92%	24.18%	25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted	676	641	1188
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£385	£338	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£383	£350
% change year-on-year	+4.57%	+9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	4	7
Median hourly rate	£21.50	£17.88	£30.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+20.27%	-40.41%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£30.50	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+24.59%	+17.30%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the City of London citing SQL Server as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

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

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

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

SQL Server
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the City of London region with a requirement for SQL Server.

1	265 (50.00%)	SQL
2	246 (46.42%)	C#
3	225 (42.45%)	Finance
4	209 (39.43%)	.NET
5	159 (30.00%)	Microsoft
6	144 (27.17%)	Agile Software Development
7	112 (21.13%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	111 (20.94%)	Windows
9	105 (19.81%)	Banking
10	104 (19.62%)	TDD
10	104 (19.62%)	MVC
11	94 (17.74%)	Business Intelligence
12	90 (16.98%)	SQL Server 2008
13	87 (16.42%)	Oracle
14	86 (16.23%)	T-SQL

15	83 (15.66%)	ASP.NET
16	74 (13.96%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	74 (13.96%)	HTML
17	71 (13.40%)	JavaScript
17	71 (13.40%)	Scrum
17	71 (13.40%)	AngularJS
18	68 (12.83%)	SQL Server 2012
19	67 (12.64%)	Java
20	66 (12.45%)	Team Foundation Server
21	64 (12.08%)	CSS
22	62 (11.70%)	WCF
23	60 (11.32%)	Microsoft Azure
24	54 (10.19%)	ETL
25	53 (10.00%)	Data Warehouse
26	52 (9.81%)	.NET Framework

SQL Server
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	37 (6.98%)	IIS
1	37 (6.98%)	SharePoint
2	24 (4.53%)	BizTalk Server
3	17 (3.21%)	WebSphere
4	15 (2.83%)	Apache
5	10 (1.89%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	10 (1.89%)	SAS
6	7 (1.32%)	Confluence
6	7 (1.32%)	MS Exchange
7	6 (1.13%)	Apache Spark
7	6 (1.13%)	JBoss
8	5 (0.94%)	CMS
8	5 (0.94%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	4 (0.75%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	4 (0.75%)	Tomcat
9	4 (0.75%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	3 (0.57%)	Elasticsearch
10	3 (0.57%)	Oracle Workflow
10	3 (0.57%)	Umbraco
10	3 (0.57%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	34 (6.42%)	Microsoft Excel
2	19 (3.58%)	Microsoft Office
3	7 (1.32%)	MS Visio
4	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Project
4	2 (0.38%)	SPSS
5	1 (0.19%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	1 (0.19%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	23 (4.34%)	Dynamics CRM
2	15 (2.83%)	Dynamics AX
3	7 (1.32%)	thinkFolio
4	5 (0.94%)	Markit EDM
5	4 (0.75%)	Eagle PACE
6	3 (0.57%)	SunGard GMI
7	2 (0.38%)	ION MarketView
7	2 (0.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	2 (0.38%)	Workday HCM
8	1 (0.19%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
8	1 (0.19%)	Exstream
8	1 (0.19%)	LatentZero
8	1 (0.19%)	NetSuite
8	1 (0.19%)	PeopleSoft HCM
8	1 (0.19%)	Raiser's Edge
8	1 (0.19%)	Remedy ITSM
8	1 (0.19%)	SAP CRM
8	1 (0.19%)	SAP Hybris
8	1 (0.19%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	60 (11.32%)	Microsoft Azure
2	35 (6.60%)	Amazon AWS
3	22 (4.15%)	IaaS
4	20 (3.77%)	PaaS
5	6 (1.13%)	GitHub
6	4 (0.75%)	Office 365
6	4 (0.75%)	SaaS
7	3 (0.57%)	Cloud Computing
8	2 (0.38%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	2 (0.38%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	2 (0.38%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
9	1 (0.19%)	Azure Active Directory
9	1 (0.19%)	Dynamics 365
9	1 (0.19%)	iPaaS

Communications & Networking
1	17 (3.21%)	Firewall
2	10 (1.89%)	DNS
2	10 (1.89%)	LAN
3	9 (1.70%)	Internet
4	8 (1.51%)	HTTP
4	8 (1.51%)	TCP/IP
4	8 (1.51%)	WAN
5	6 (1.13%)	SAN
6	5 (0.94%)	LDAP
7	4 (0.75%)	MPLS
8	3 (0.57%)	Cisco ASA
8	3 (0.57%)	DHCP
8	3 (0.57%)	FTP
8	3 (0.57%)	Intranet
8	3 (0.57%)	NAS
8	3 (0.57%)	SSL
9	2 (0.38%)	SMTP
9	2 (0.38%)	VoIP
9	2 (0.38%)	VPN
9	2 (0.38%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	112 (21.13%)	SQL Server Integration Services
2	90 (16.98%)	SQL Server 2008
3	74 (13.96%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	68 (12.83%)	SQL Server 2012
5	53 (10.00%)	Data Warehouse
6	40 (7.55%)	SQL Server 2016
7	38 (7.17%)	NoSQL
8	35 (6.60%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	31 (5.85%)	Relational Database
10	25 (4.72%)	Power BI
11	24 (4.53%)	SQL Server 2005
12	21 (3.96%)	MySQL
12	21 (3.96%)	SQL Server 2014
13	19 (3.58%)	Big Data
13	19 (3.58%)	Oracle Database
14	15 (2.83%)	MongoDB
14	15 (2.83%)	QlikView
15	13 (2.45%)	DB2
15	13 (2.45%)	PostgreSQL
15	13 (2.45%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	66 (12.45%)	Team Foundation Server
2	42 (7.92%)	Visual Studio
3	41 (7.74%)	JIRA
4	39 (7.36%)	NUnit
5	31 (5.85%)	Git (software)
6	29 (5.47%)	Moq
7	22 (4.15%)	MSTest
8	19 (3.58%)	Subversion
9	15 (2.83%)	Jenkins
10	14 (2.64%)	TeamCity
11	10 (1.89%)	SpecFlow
12	8 (1.51%)	Rhino Mocks
13	7 (1.32%)	Bitbucket
13	7 (1.32%)	Selenium
14	6 (1.13%)	Maven
15	5 (0.94%)	CruiseControl
15	5 (0.94%)	ReSharper
15	5 (0.94%)	Talend Open Studio
16	4 (0.75%)	ClearCase
16	4 (0.75%)	Cucumber

General
1	225 (42.45%)	Finance
2	105 (19.81%)	Banking
3	46 (8.68%)	Front Office
4	21 (3.96%)	Investment Banking
5	15 (2.83%)	Retail
6	13 (2.45%)	Back Office
7	10 (1.89%)	Legal
7	10 (1.89%)	Marketing
8	9 (1.70%)	Financial Institution
8	9 (1.70%)	Law
9	8 (1.51%)	Advertising
10	4 (0.75%)	Digital Economy
11	3 (0.57%)	Manufacturing
11	3 (0.57%)	Publishing
11	3 (0.57%)	Telecoms
12	2 (0.38%)	Electronics
12	2 (0.38%)	International Banking
13	1 (0.19%)	General Ledger
13	1 (0.19%)	Mandarin Language
13	1 (0.19%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	304 (57.36%)	Developer
2	102 (19.25%)	C# Developer
3	93 (17.55%)	.NET Developer
4	88 (16.60%)	Analyst
5	83 (15.66%)	SQL Developer
6	52 (9.81%)	C# .NET Developer
7	39 (7.36%)	SQL Analyst
8	37 (6.98%)	Senior Developer
9	36 (6.79%)	Full Stack Developer
9	36 (6.79%)	WPF Developer
10	32 (6.04%)	Architect
11	27 (5.09%)	C# WPF Developer
11	27 (5.09%)	SQL Server Developer
12	25 (4.72%)	Analyst Developer
13	24 (4.53%)	Angular Developer
13	24 (4.53%)	ASP.NET Developer
14	23 (4.34%)	Senior C# Developer
15	22 (4.15%)	SSIS Developer
16	21 (3.96%)	Business Intelligence Developer
16	21 (3.96%)	Data Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	209 (39.43%)	.NET
2	83 (15.66%)	ASP.NET
3	74 (13.96%)	HTML
4	71 (13.40%)	AngularJS
5	64 (12.08%)	CSS
6	62 (11.70%)	WCF
7	52 (9.81%)	.NET Framework
8	51 (9.62%)	Entity Framework
9	45 (8.49%)	jQuery
10	43 (8.11%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	41 (7.74%)	WPF
12	39 (7.36%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	38 (7.17%)	Web Services
14	28 (5.28%)	Ajax
14	28 (5.28%)	XML
15	25 (4.72%)	Middleware
16	23 (4.34%)	HTML5
17	20 (3.77%)	REST
18	13 (2.45%)	LINQ
18	13 (2.45%)	NHibernate

Miscellaneous
1	39 (7.36%)	Greenfield Project
2	24 (4.53%)	Analytical Skills
2	24 (4.53%)	Fixed Income
3	19 (3.58%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	17 (3.21%)	Data Structures
5	15 (2.83%)	Credit Risk
6	14 (2.64%)	Market Risk
7	13 (2.45%)	Computer Science
8	11 (2.08%)	Equities
8	11 (2.08%)	Fintech
8	11 (2.08%)	Public Cloud
9	10 (1.89%)	Derivative
9	10 (1.89%)	Management Information System
10	8 (1.51%)	Clustering
10	8 (1.51%)	Enterprise Software
10	8 (1.51%)	Mobile App
11	7 (1.32%)	Data Centre
12	6 (1.13%)	Replication
12	6 (1.13%)	User Experience
13	5 (0.94%)	Photography

Operating Systems
1	111 (20.94%)	Windows
2	37 (6.98%)	Linux
3	28 (5.28%)	Windows Server
4	26 (4.91%)	Unix
5	7 (1.32%)	Windows Server 2008
6	6 (1.13%)	Windows Server 2003
7	5 (0.94%)	CentOS
7	5 (0.94%)	Windows 10
8	4 (0.75%)	Solaris
9	3 (0.57%)	AIX
9	3 (0.57%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	3 (0.57%)	Windows Server 2012
10	2 (0.38%)	Android
10	2 (0.38%)	Apple iOS
10	2 (0.38%)	Windows 8
10	2 (0.38%)	Windows XP
11	1 (0.19%)	Mac OS X
11	1 (0.19%)	Windows 7

Processes & Methodologies
1	144 (27.17%)	Agile Software Development
2	104 (19.62%)	MVC
2	104 (19.62%)	TDD
3	94 (17.74%)	Business Intelligence
4	71 (13.40%)	Scrum
5	54 (10.19%)	ETL
6	46 (8.68%)	Test Automation
7	42 (7.92%)	Data Modelling
7	42 (7.92%)	DevOps
8	41 (7.74%)	Analytics
8	41 (7.74%)	Continuous Integration
9	40 (7.55%)	Multithreading
10	39 (7.36%)	Asset Management
11	34 (6.42%)	Mathematics
12	33 (6.23%)	MVVM
12	33 (6.23%)	SDLC
13	30 (5.66%)	BDD
13	30 (5.66%)	OO
14	29 (5.47%)	CRM
15	27 (5.09%)	High Availability

Programming Languages
1	265 (50.00%)	SQL
2	246 (46.42%)	C#
3	86 (16.23%)	T-SQL
4	71 (13.40%)	JavaScript
5	67 (12.64%)	Java
6	33 (6.23%)	PowerShell
7	26 (4.91%)	Python
8	20 (3.77%)	VBA
9	14 (2.64%)	Ruby
10	13 (2.45%)	VB
11	12 (2.26%)	Shell Script
12	10 (1.89%)	TypeScript
13	8 (1.51%)	C++
13	8 (1.51%)	PL/SQL
14	7 (1.32%)	Bash Shell
15	6 (1.13%)	C
15	6 (1.13%)	Perl
15	6 (1.13%)	VB.NET
16	5 (0.94%)	Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
16	5 (0.94%)	R

Qualifications
1	28 (5.28%)	Degree
2	10 (1.89%)	Security Cleared
3	8 (1.51%)	Computer Science Degree
4	7 (1.32%)	DV Cleared
5	4 (0.75%)	CFA
6	3 (0.57%)	ITIL Certification
6	3 (0.57%)	SC Cleared
7	2 (0.38%)	ISTQB
8	1 (0.19%)	CCNA
8	1 (0.19%)	Cisco Certification
8	1 (0.19%)	MCITP
8	1 (0.19%)	MCSE
8	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft Certification
8	1 (0.19%)	PMI Certification
8	1 (0.19%)	PMP
8	1 (0.19%)	PRINCE2 Certification
8	1 (0.19%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	14 (2.64%)	QA
2	12 (2.26%)	Data Quality
3	9 (1.70%)	Dodd-Frank
4	6 (1.13%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	6 (1.13%)	MiFID
5	5 (0.94%)	SEPA
5	5 (0.94%)	SLA
6	3 (0.57%)	EMIR
6	3 (0.57%)	PCI DSS
6	3 (0.57%)	Solvency II
7	2 (0.38%)	GDPR
8	1 (0.19%)	PMO

System Software
1	19 (3.58%)	Active Directory
2	11 (2.08%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	7 (1.32%)	Docker
4	6 (1.13%)	Oracle RAC
5	5 (0.94%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6	4 (0.75%)	Hyper-V
6	4 (0.75%)	XenDesktop
7	3 (0.57%)	vCloud
7	3 (0.57%)	VMware ESXi
7	3 (0.57%)	vSphere
7	3 (0.57%)	XenApp
8	2 (0.38%)	Corosync
8	2 (0.38%)	Virtual Servers
8	2 (0.38%)	XenServer
9	1 (0.19%)	ISA Server
9	1 (0.19%)	Microsoft App-V
9	1 (0.19%)	Terminal Server
9	1 (0.19%)	Veritas Cluster Server
9	1 (0.19%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	9 (1.70%)	Nagios
2	6 (1.13%)	HAProxy
3	5 (0.94%)	Graphite
3	5 (0.94%)	Puppet
3	5 (0.94%)	Tivoli
4	4 (0.75%)	Backup Exec
4	4 (0.75%)	Dollar Universe
4	4 (0.75%)	logstash
4	4 (0.75%)	SCCM
5	3 (0.57%)	Forefront Identity Manager
5	3 (0.57%)	HP Quality Center
5	3 (0.57%)	NetBackup
6	2 (0.38%)	Ansible
6	2 (0.38%)	Data Guard
6	2 (0.38%)	MOM
6	2 (0.38%)	Norton AntiVirus
6	2 (0.38%)	Opscode Chef
6	2 (0.38%)	Opsview
6	2 (0.38%)	Oracle RMAN
6	2 (0.38%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection

Vendors
1	159 (30.00%)	Microsoft
2	87 (16.42%)	Oracle
3	23 (4.34%)	IBM
4	21 (3.96%)	Tableau
4	21 (3.96%)	VMware
5	18 (3.40%)	Sybase
6	12 (2.26%)	Citrix
7	10 (1.89%)	Bloomberg
7	10 (1.89%)	SAP
8	9 (1.70%)	Cisco
8	9 (1.70%)	HP
8	9 (1.70%)	TIBCO
9	7 (1.32%)	Infragistics
10	6 (1.13%)	Informatica
10	6 (1.13%)	webMethods
11	5 (0.94%)	Fidessa
11	5 (0.94%)	Reuters
11	5 (0.94%)	Salesforce.com
11	5 (0.94%)	Telerik
11	5 (0.94%)	Teradata