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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 51 92 145
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.93% 4.35% 5.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.82% 20.81% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 70 108
10th Percentile £404 £400 £425
25th Percentile £415 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% -3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £683 £753 £793
Central London median daily rate £496 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -14.20% -3.75% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 369 442 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.21% 20.88% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 310 367
10th Percentile £379 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.08% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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 November 2025.

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 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) CICS
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) IIS
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (5.88%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (1.96%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.96%) Endur
3 1 (1.96%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.96%) Maximo
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.96%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) AWS
2 6 (11.76%) PaaS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.84%) IaaS
4 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.84%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) GCP
7 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database
4 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) MySQL
4 4 (7.84%) Power BI
4 4 (7.84%) Redis
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.96%) Informix
7 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.84%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.88%) Maven
3 2 (3.92%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) JUnit
3 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) jMock
4 1 (1.96%) Mockito
General
1 29 (56.86%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 14 (27.45%) Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.96%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) C# Developer
3 6 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Applications Developer
4 5 (9.80%) DBA
5 4 (7.84%) Administrator
5 4 (7.84%) Automation Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Architect
6 3 (5.88%) BPM Developer
6 3 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.88%) SQL DBA
7 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 2 (3.92%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) CSS
2 6 (11.76%) HTML
3 5 (9.80%) .NET Core
3 5 (9.80%) REST
4 4 (7.84%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.88%) jQuery
5 3 (5.88%) React
6 2 (3.92%) Django
6 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.92%) Leaflet
6 2 (3.92%) Spring
6 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.92%) Vue
6 2 (3.92%) WPF
7 1 (1.96%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.96%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Derivative
2 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.92%) Pricing Data
3 2 (3.92%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) State Machine
4 1 (1.96%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) AIX
5 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Data Analysis
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 10 (19.61%) ETL
4 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
4 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (11.76%) Microservices
5 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
5 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (9.80%) SDLC
6 5 (9.80%) Unit Testing
7 4 (7.84%) Business Case
7 4 (7.84%) Data Reconciliation
7 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (7.84%) Migration
7 4 (7.84%) Robotic Process Automation
7 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 22 (43.14%) C#
3 10 (19.61%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.80%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) Java
5 4 (7.84%) VBA
6 2 (3.92%) AWK
6 2 (3.92%) Bash
6 2 (3.92%) sed
7 1 (1.96%) COBOL
7 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.92%) MCITP
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) GAAP
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS
4 1 (1.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) GPFS
2 2 (3.92%) NFS
3 1 (1.96%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) GridGain
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (3.92%) SCOM
2 1 (1.96%) Ambari
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.96%) WMI
2 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (49.02%) Oracle
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) OpenText
4 2 (3.92%) HP
4 2 (3.92%) Informatica
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) Solace
4 2 (3.92%) Sybase
4 2 (3.92%) Talend
4 2 (3.92%) UiPath
5 1 (1.96%) Citrix
5 1 (1.96%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.96%) NetApp
5 1 (1.96%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.96%) Portware
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) Spotify