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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -42 -4 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 37 79 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.98% 4.19% 4.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.04% 20.10% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 54 83
10th Percentile £377 £428 £425
25th Percentile £445 £512 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £595
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% -2.10% +3.48%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £688
90th Percentile £643 £698 £818
Central London median daily rate £500 £583 £590
% change year-on-year -14.16% -1.27% +2.61%

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 335 393 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.91% 20.83% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 256 350
10th Percentile £325 £406 £405
25th Percentile £408 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.77% -0.42%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £700
90th Percentile £738 £794 £814
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%

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 22 January 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) AWS
3 7 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) IaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (13.51%) MySQL
3 4 (10.81%) Power BI
3 4 (10.81%) Redis
4 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) OLAP
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (8.11%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) Maven
3 2 (5.41%) JUnit
3 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.70%) ERwin
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) jMock
4 1 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) DBA
4 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.11%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.41%) Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Support
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Support Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.41%) CSS
2 2 (5.41%) HTML
2 2 (5.41%) Spring
2 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.70%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.70%) JPA
3 1 (2.70%) MyBatis
3 1 (2.70%) Next.js
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) React
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Derivative
2 3 (8.11%) Credit Risk
2 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps
2 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.92%) ETL
4 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
5 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.81%) Analytics
6 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.81%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Microservices
6 4 (10.81%) Migration
6 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
7 3 (8.11%) AI
7 3 (8.11%) Data Governance
7 3 (8.11%) Data Migration
7 3 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
7 3 (8.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) C#
3 7 (18.92%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.41%) MCITP
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) SCOM
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Oracle
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Informatica
4 2 (5.41%) HP
4 2 (5.41%) Intapp
4 2 (5.41%) Solace
4 2 (5.41%) Sybase
4 2 (5.41%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.70%) SAP