SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 103 199 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.68% 5.47% 5.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.28% 25.68% 23.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 127 178
10th Percentile £363 £431 £373
25th Percentile £425 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £636 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +10.69% +6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £838 £780 £751
Central London median daily rate £505 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 484 775 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.98% 21.31% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 488 708
10th Percentile £405 £414 £425
25th Percentile £475 £507 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £725 £700
90th Percentile £796 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +284.74%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +202.50%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.80%) IIS
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
3 2 (1.94%) JBoss
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.94%) nginx
3 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.97%) Tornado
4 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Endur
2 2 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.94%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (1.94%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.94%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.97%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 49 (47.57%) Azure
2 28 (27.18%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.65%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.71%) AWS
5 8 (7.77%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (4.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.85%) GitHub
8 4 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.88%) Serverless
9 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.91%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.94%) GCP
10 2 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.94%) SaaS
10 2 (1.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) Firewall
1 6 (5.83%) Internet
2 3 (2.91%) DNS
3 2 (1.94%) SSL
4 1 (0.97%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.97%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.97%) NAS
4 1 (0.97%) SAN
4 1 (0.97%) VPN
4 1 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.74%) MySQL
3 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (6.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.88%) Power BI
6 4 (3.88%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.91%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.91%) Redis
8 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) Big Data
9 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.97%) Power Query
9 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (17.48%) Git
2 9 (8.74%) JIRA
2 9 (8.74%) TeamCity
3 7 (6.80%) Selenium
3 7 (6.80%) SpecFlow
4 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.88%) Postman
5 4 (3.88%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.94%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.94%) ERwin
6 2 (1.94%) GitLab
6 2 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.94%) Subversion
6 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.97%) git-flow
7 1 (0.97%) Pylint
7 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Banking
3 13 (12.62%) Finance
4 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Legal
7 4 (3.88%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Back Office
8 3 (2.91%) Front Office
9 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.97%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.97%) Electronics
10 1 (0.97%) French Language
10 1 (0.97%) German Language
10 1 (0.97%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.97%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.97%) Retail
10 1 (0.97%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 47 (45.63%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) C# Developer
4 11 (10.68%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.80%) .NET Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Python Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Quantitative Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Software Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Analyst
6 6 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Developer
6 6 (5.83%) SQL Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Backend Developer
7 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) DevOps Manager
7 5 (4.85%) Market Risk Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (37.86%) .NET
2 14 (13.59%) .NET Core
2 14 (13.59%) XML
3 13 (12.62%) .NET Framework
4 12 (11.65%) ASP.NET
5 10 (9.71%) Web Services
6 8 (7.77%) HTML
6 8 (7.77%) Kafka
7 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.83%) CSS
7 6 (5.83%) WCF
8 5 (4.85%) JSON
8 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (4.85%) React
8 5 (4.85%) REST
8 5 (4.85%) WinForms
9 4 (3.88%) ARM Templates
9 4 (3.88%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.91%) Playwright
11 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Market Risk
2 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.94%) BYOD
5 2 (1.94%) Contactless
5 2 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.97%) Clustering
6 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.97%) Equities
6 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.33%) Windows
2 10 (9.71%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.74%) Linux
4 6 (5.83%) Unix
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.97%) CentOS
6 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (53.40%) DevOps
2 44 (42.72%) Agile
3 24 (23.30%) SDLC
4 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
6 17 (16.50%) Migration
6 17 (16.50%) Scrum
7 15 (14.56%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.65%) Computer Science
9 11 (10.68%) Data Analysis
9 11 (10.68%) ETL
10 10 (9.71%) Data Modelling
10 10 (9.71%) Microservices
11 9 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (7.77%) Analytics
12 8 (7.77%) OO
12 8 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (6.80%) Configuration Management
13 7 (6.80%) Software Deployment
13 7 (6.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 60 (58.25%) C#
2 48 (46.60%) SQL
3 34 (33.01%) PowerShell
4 21 (20.39%) Python
5 13 (12.62%) Java
6 12 (11.65%) T-SQL
7 11 (10.68%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.77%) Bicep
9 5 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.88%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.91%) Bash
12 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.97%) C
13 1 (0.97%) Perl
13 1 (0.97%) PHP
13 1 (0.97%) R
13 1 (0.97%) Ruby
13 1 (0.97%) Scala
13 1 (0.97%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (14.56%) Degree
2 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.97%) ISEB
4 1 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.97%) SANS
4 1 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) QA
2 9 (8.74%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.83%) SLA
4 3 (2.91%) WCAG
5 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (12.62%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.97%) ACF2
3 1 (0.97%) IAG
3 1 (0.97%) RACF
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.91%) Ansible
3 2 (1.94%) Grafana
3 2 (1.94%) Graylog
3 2 (1.94%) Nagios
3 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.94%) Puppet
3 2 (1.94%) SCCM
3 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.97%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.97%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.97%) Nessus
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.97%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.97%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 39 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 24 (23.30%) Oracle
3 6 (5.83%) Cadence
3 6 (5.83%) iManage
4 3 (2.91%) Citrix
4 3 (2.91%) IBM
4 3 (2.91%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.94%) Informatica
5 2 (1.94%) NEC
5 2 (1.94%) Sparx
5 2 (1.94%) Splunk
5 2 (1.94%) Temenos
5 2 (1.94%) VMware
6 1 (0.97%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.97%) Confluent
6 1 (0.97%) Databricks
6 1 (0.97%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Veracode