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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 64 77 125
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.68% 4.11% 6.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.69% 17.66% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 85
10th Percentile £331 £404 £363
25th Percentile £414 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £744 £738 £833
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £511
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.58% -14.79%
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 408 436 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.06% 23.28% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 289 327
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £661 £700 £725
90th Percentile £763 £778 £806
Central London median daily rate £558 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -2.62% -0.43% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% - -
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -7.46% - -

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 5 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.25%) Apache
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.69%) IIS
4 2 (3.13%) Confluence
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (12.50%) AWS
6 8 (12.50%) Power Automate
7 6 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (6.25%) GitHub
8 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.69%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) DHCP
3 2 (3.13%) Internet
3 2 (3.13%) Intranet
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.56%) Firewall
4 1 (1.56%) Multicast
4 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.56%) SSH
4 1 (1.56%) VLAN
4 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Power BI
2 12 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (15.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (14.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.81%) Oracle Database
7 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (7.81%) Star Schema
8 4 (6.25%) Power Query
8 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.13%) Redis
10 2 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Git
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.56%) GitLab
6 1 (1.56%) JUnit
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Mockito
6 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (37.50%) Finance
2 15 (23.44%) Banking
2 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Front Office
5 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) C# Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) DBA
3 9 (14.06%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (9.38%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Administrator
6 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.13%) Applications Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.13%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) .NET
2 7 (10.94%) .NET Framework
3 6 (9.38%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) Kafka
5 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.69%) XML
6 2 (3.13%) ADO.NET
6 2 (3.13%) Ajax
6 2 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.13%) PySpark
6 2 (3.13%) React
6 2 (3.13%) SOAP
6 2 (3.13%) Spring
6 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.13%) Web Services
6 2 (3.13%) XSL
6 2 (3.13%) XSLT
7 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Clustering
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.69%) Replication
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Derivative
3 2 (3.13%) Market Risk
3 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (28.13%) Windows
2 13 (20.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.81%) Linux
4 3 (4.69%) Unix
5 2 (3.13%) VMS
6 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (37.50%) DevOps
2 15 (23.44%) Analytics
3 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (17.19%) ETL
4 11 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (15.63%) Agile
5 10 (15.63%) Data Modelling
5 10 (15.63%) Migration
6 9 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (14.06%) Unit Testing
7 8 (12.50%) Data Engineering
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.38%) AI
9 6 (9.38%) High Availability
9 6 (9.38%) Validation
10 5 (7.81%) Change Management
10 5 (7.81%) Data Analysis
10 5 (7.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (67.19%) SQL
2 19 (29.69%) C#
3 14 (21.88%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 10 (15.63%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (6.25%) Java
8 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.13%) Korn
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) Bicep
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Scala
9 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) CCA
4 1 (1.56%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) QA
2 6 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) Docker
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.56%) GridGain
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.56%) XenApp
5 1 (1.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.13%) SCOM
4 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.56%) SCCM
4 1 (1.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.88%) Oracle
3 7 (10.94%) VMware
4 6 (9.38%) Citrix
5 5 (7.81%) Databricks
6 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.13%) BMC
7 2 (3.13%) Cisco
7 2 (3.13%) Commvault
7 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.13%) Informatica
7 2 (3.13%) Remedy
7 2 (3.13%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) Denodo
8 1 (1.56%) EMC
8 1 (1.56%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.56%) Solace
8 1 (1.56%) Sybase