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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 57 108 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.24% 5.22% 5.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.14% 24.16% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 78 127
10th Percentile £404 £363 £425
25th Percentile £419 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £700
90th Percentile £682 £758 £775
Central London median daily rate £496 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.91% -8.33% +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 403 447 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.91% 21.60% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 319 421
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £438 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £790
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%

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
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 16 September 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 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 3 (5.26%) Apache
1 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.75%) CICS
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (5.26%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.75%) Endur
3 1 (1.75%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.75%) Maximo
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.75%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.28%) PaaS
4 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) AWS
5 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.02%) IaaS
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.02%) SaaS
6 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.26%) Serverless
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) SSH
2 1 (1.75%) HTTP
2 1 (1.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Power BI
2 7 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.77%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.26%) MySQL
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.51%) Apache Hive
6 2 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.51%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (3.51%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (3.51%) Tableau
7 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.75%) Power Query
7 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) RStudio
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) JMeter
4 1 (1.75%) JUnit
4 1 (1.75%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.75%) Maven
4 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (49.12%) Finance
2 18 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.56%) Banking
4 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Legal
6 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Front Office
8 1 (1.75%) Back Office
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) International Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Developer
2 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 6 (10.53%) .NET Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Applications Developer
3 6 (10.53%) C# Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) DBA
5 4 (7.02%) Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) Automation Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.26%) BPM Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Django Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.09%) .NET
2 6 (10.53%) CSS
2 6 (10.53%) HTML
3 5 (8.77%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.02%) .NET Framework
4 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.02%) React
4 4 (7.02%) REST
5 3 (5.26%) Django
5 3 (5.26%) Leaflet
5 3 (5.26%) WPF
6 2 (3.51%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (3.51%) jQuery
6 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 2 (3.51%) pydantic
6 2 (3.51%) PySpark
6 2 (3.51%) RESTful
6 2 (3.51%) Spring
6 2 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
1 4 (7.02%) Derivative
1 4 (7.02%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Clustering
2 2 (3.51%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.51%) Pricing Data
2 2 (3.51%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.51%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.51%) Replication
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Windows
3 4 (7.02%) Unix
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.75%) AIX
5 1 (1.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Agile
2 14 (24.56%) Data Analysis
2 14 (24.56%) DevOps
3 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (15.79%) Visualisation
5 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
5 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.28%) ETL
6 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.53%) SDLC
7 6 (10.53%) Unit Testing
8 4 (7.02%) Business Case
8 4 (7.02%) Data Reconciliation
8 4 (7.02%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.02%) Migration
8 4 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (7.02%) Robotic Process Automation
9 3 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 34 (59.65%) SQL
2 22 (38.60%) C#
3 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.54%) Python
4 5 (8.77%) VBA
5 4 (7.02%) Bash
5 4 (7.02%) Java
6 3 (5.26%) Scala
7 2 (3.51%) AWK
7 2 (3.51%) sed
7 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.75%) COBOL
8 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.51%) MCITP
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) SLA
4 1 (1.75%) GAAP
4 1 (1.75%) IFRS
4 1 (1.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.51%) GPFS
2 2 (3.51%) NFS
3 1 (1.75%) GridGain
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (3.51%) SCOM
2 1 (1.75%) Ambari
2 1 (1.75%) Puppet
2 1 (1.75%) WMI
2 1 (1.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (45.61%) Oracle
2 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Databricks
4 3 (5.26%) HP
4 3 (5.26%) OpenText
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) Sybase
5 2 (3.51%) UiPath
6 1 (1.75%) Avaya
6 1 (1.75%) Calypso
6 1 (1.75%) Citrix
6 1 (1.75%) NetApp
6 1 (1.75%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.75%) Portware
6 1 (1.75%) Solace
6 1 (1.75%) Spotify
6 1 (1.75%) VMware