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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 48 32
Rank change year-on-year -33 -16 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 48 76 114
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.05% 4.52% 5.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.34% 20.11% 23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 52 71
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £367 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +8.84% -14.00%
75th Percentile £620 £688 £675
90th Percentile £731 £722 £838
Central London median daily rate £500 £585 £505
% change year-on-year -14.53% +15.84% -19.20%
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 389 378 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.65% 22.50% 22.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 243 328
10th Percentile £333 £406 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -5.38% -3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £710
90th Percentile £749 £763 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 24 May 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 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
2 5 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (22.92%) Power Platform
4 9 (18.75%) AWS
5 8 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (14.58%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (12.50%) GitHub
7 6 (12.50%) Power Automate
8 4 (8.33%) SaaS
9 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
10 1 (2.08%) Dagster
10 1 (2.08%) dbt
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DHCP
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) Multicast
1 1 (2.08%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (18.75%) Power BI
2 7 (14.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.17%) Metadata
6 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.17%) Redis
6 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.17%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.08%) OLAP
7 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) ERwin
3 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (4.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Maven
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (29.17%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Banking
3 4 (8.33%) Front Office
4 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Back Office
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Local Government
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Data Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Developer
3 7 (14.58%) DBA
4 6 (12.50%) Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (10.42%) Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.33%) SQL DBA
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
9 1 (2.08%) C# Quant Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) Kafka
3 3 (6.25%) PySpark
4 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.17%) React
4 2 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (2.08%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (2.08%) JSON
5 1 (2.08%) Playwright
5 1 (2.08%) Spring
5 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.08%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.17%) Derivative
3 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.08%) Clustering
4 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 6 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) DevOps
2 13 (27.08%) Analytics
3 11 (22.92%) Data Modelling
3 11 (22.92%) ETL
4 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 8 (16.67%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.50%) AI
8 6 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (12.50%) Validation
9 5 (10.42%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.33%) Agile
10 4 (8.33%) Data Integration
10 4 (8.33%) Data Migration
10 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) SQL
2 13 (27.08%) Python
3 8 (16.67%) C#
4 5 (10.42%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.08%) Scala
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) CCA
4 1 (2.08%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.42%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.08%) GridGain
3 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) XenApp
3 1 (2.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) SCCM
3 1 (2.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
1 11 (22.92%) Oracle
2 5 (10.42%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) Citrix
3 3 (6.25%) Informatica
4 2 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) Denodo
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Intapp
5 1 (2.08%) RedGate
5 1 (2.08%) Solace
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase