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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 54 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 -21 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 64 76 125
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.68% 4.05% 6.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.04% 17.59% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 85
10th Percentile £328 £404 £363
25th Percentile £418 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £745 £740 £810
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £505
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% -15.83%
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 399 432 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.72% 23.03% 22.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 286 324
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -3.92% -1.36%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £725
90th Percentile £763 £781 £796
Central London median daily rate £560 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -0.65% -1.97% -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 29 July 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 33 (51.56%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (17.19%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (14.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (12.50%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 6 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (6.25%) GitHub
7 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.69%) SaaS
8 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Stack
10 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 13 (20.31%) Power BI
2 12 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (14.06%) Azure SQL Database
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%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.69%) Power Query
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 7 (10.94%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) JIRA
3 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.56%) GitLab
7 1 (1.56%) JUnit
7 1 (1.56%) Maven
7 1 (1.56%) Mockito
7 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (37.50%) Finance
2 15 (23.44%) Banking
2 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) 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%) AI Agents
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 14 (21.88%) Analytics
3 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (17.19%) ETL
5 11 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (15.63%) Agile
6 10 (15.63%) Migration
7 9 (14.06%) Data Modelling
7 9 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (14.06%) Unit Testing
8 8 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 6 (9.38%) AI
9 6 (9.38%) High Availability
9 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
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 13 (20.31%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 10 (15.63%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.25%) Java
8 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.13%) Korn
10 1 (1.56%) Bash
10 1 (1.56%) Bicep
10 1 (1.56%) Go
10 1 (1.56%) Scala
10 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 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
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 16 (25.00%) 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