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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 52 32
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 68 78 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.82% 4.18% 5.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.50% 18.01% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 82
10th Percentile £335 £404 £363
25th Percentile £415 £424 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year - +3.53% -11.09%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £743 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £505
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% -15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 412 433 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.11% 23.20% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 288 328
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £663 £690 £720
90th Percentile £763 £779 £788
Central London median daily rate £560 £570 £578
% change year-on-year -1.75% -1.30% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 8 August 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 8 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.88%) Apache
2 4 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (4.41%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) Azure
2 19 (27.94%) Power Platform
3 12 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (14.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (11.76%) AWS
6 8 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 7 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (8.82%) GitHub
8 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.41%) SaaS
10 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) DHCP
3 2 (2.94%) Internet
3 2 (2.94%) Intranet
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) Firewall
4 1 (1.47%) Multicast
4 1 (1.47%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.47%) SSH
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) Power BI
2 12 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (14.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (14.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 7 (10.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.35%) Oracle Database
7 5 (7.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.35%) Star Schema
8 4 (5.88%) Power Query
9 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.94%) Redis
10 2 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.41%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.47%) GitLab
7 1 (1.47%) JUnit
7 1 (1.47%) Maven
7 1 (1.47%) Mockito
7 1 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (35.29%) Finance
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.06%) Banking
4 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Front Office
6 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Back Office
8 1 (1.47%) Law
8 1 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Developer
2 10 (14.71%) C# Developer
2 10 (14.71%) Senior
3 9 (13.24%) Data Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) DBA
4 6 (8.82%) Consultant
4 6 (8.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (8.82%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (8.82%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Administrator
6 4 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Architect
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.06%) .NET
2 8 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 6 (8.82%) REST
4 4 (5.88%) Kafka
4 4 (5.88%) XML
5 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.94%) ADO.NET
6 2 (2.94%) Ajax
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (2.94%) JSON
6 2 (2.94%) PySpark
6 2 (2.94%) React
6 2 (2.94%) SOAP
6 2 (2.94%) Spring
6 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.94%) Web Services
6 2 (2.94%) XSL
6 2 (2.94%) XSLT
7 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Clustering
2 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Replication
4 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.94%) Derivative
4 2 (2.94%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Windows
2 14 (20.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.35%) Linux
4 3 (4.41%) Unix
4 3 (4.41%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) DevOps
2 15 (22.06%) Analytics
2 15 (22.06%) CI/CD
3 14 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (16.18%) ETL
4 11 (16.18%) Migration
4 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (14.71%) Agile
5 10 (14.71%) Data Modelling
6 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (13.24%) Unit Testing
7 8 (11.76%) Data Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.82%) AI
9 6 (8.82%) High Availability
9 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.82%) Validation
10 5 (7.35%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (69.12%) SQL
2 22 (32.35%) C#
3 15 (22.06%) PowerShell
4 14 (20.59%) Python
5 10 (14.71%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.29%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.88%) Java
8 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.94%) Korn
9 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.47%) Bash
10 1 (1.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) Go
10 1 (1.47%) Scala
10 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) CCA
4 1 (1.47%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) QA
2 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.88%) Docker
5 1 (1.47%) GridGain
5 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.47%) XenApp
5 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Terraform
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (4.41%) SCOM
4 2 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.47%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.47%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Packer
5 1 (1.47%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.47%) SCCM
5 1 (1.47%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.59%) Oracle
3 8 (11.76%) VMware
4 6 (8.82%) Citrix
5 5 (7.35%) Databricks
6 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.41%) BMC
7 3 (4.41%) Commvault
7 3 (4.41%) Remedy
8 2 (2.94%) Cisco
8 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.94%) Informatica
8 2 (2.94%) Sitecore
9 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.47%) Dell
9 1 (1.47%) Denodo
9 1 (1.47%) Isilon
9 1 (1.47%) RedGate
9 1 (1.47%) Solace
9 1 (1.47%) Splunk