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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 60 32
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 67 67 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.92% 3.72% 5.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.01% 16.26% 24.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 48 82
10th Percentile £324 £404 £365
25th Percentile £416 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -3.30% -4.41%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £725 £749
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +6.98% - -9.66%
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 394 412 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.20% 22.89% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 274 329
10th Percentile £362 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -3.92% -
75th Percentile £664 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £800 £817
Central London median daily rate £572 £563 £588
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.26% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 1 September 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 7 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) IIS
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (56.72%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (10.45%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (10.45%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.96%) AWS
8 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.97%) SaaS
9 3 (4.48%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.49%) Dagster
11 1 (1.49%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) DHCP
2 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.99%) Internet
3 2 (2.99%) Intranet
3 2 (2.99%) VLAN
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) Firewall
4 1 (1.49%) Multicast
4 1 (1.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) Power BI
2 10 (14.93%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (13.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
4 7 (10.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.46%) Oracle Database
5 5 (7.46%) Star Schema
6 4 (5.97%) Power Query
6 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.99%) ClickHouse
8 2 (2.99%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.99%) Redis
8 2 (2.99%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (2.99%) Spark SQL
9 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.49%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) JIRA
2 8 (11.94%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (5.97%) Artifactory
4 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.97%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.49%) Maven
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (35.82%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
3 15 (22.39%) Banking
4 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.45%) Front Office
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.49%) Back Office
8 1 (1.49%) Law
8 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Developer
2 11 (16.42%) C# Developer
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 8 (11.94%) DBA
5 7 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Administrator
7 5 (7.46%) Consultant
7 5 (7.46%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 5 (7.46%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 5 (7.46%) Functional Consultant
7 5 (7.46%) SQL DBA
7 5 (7.46%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Applications Support
9 3 (4.48%) Applications Support Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) .NET
2 8 (11.94%) .NET Framework
3 7 (10.45%) Terraform
4 6 (8.96%) REST
5 4 (5.97%) XML
6 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.99%) ADO.NET
7 2 (2.99%) Ajax
7 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (2.99%) CSS
7 2 (2.99%) HTML
7 2 (2.99%) JSON
7 2 (2.99%) Kafka
7 2 (2.99%) SOAP
7 2 (2.99%) WCF
7 2 (2.99%) Web Services
7 2 (2.99%) XSL
7 2 (2.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.46%) Clustering
2 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Replication
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Derivative
4 2 (2.99%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.84%) Windows
2 15 (22.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.96%) Linux
4 4 (5.97%) Unix
5 3 (4.48%) VMS
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) DevOps
2 15 (22.39%) CI/CD
3 13 (19.40%) Analytics
3 13 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (19.40%) Migration
4 11 (16.42%) Agile
5 10 (14.93%) Data Modelling
5 10 (14.93%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (13.43%) ETL
6 9 (13.43%) Unit Testing
7 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (8.96%) AI
9 6 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.96%) SDLC
10 5 (7.46%) Data Engineering
10 5 (7.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (70.15%) SQL
2 23 (34.33%) C#
3 17 (25.37%) PowerShell
4 16 (23.88%) Python
5 7 (10.45%) T-SQL
6 6 (8.96%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (5.97%) Java
7 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.99%) Bash
8 2 (2.99%) Korn
8 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
4 4 (5.97%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) Docker
4 1 (1.49%) GridGain
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) SCOM
3 3 (4.48%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
4 2 (2.99%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.49%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.49%) Packer
5 1 (1.49%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.39%) Oracle
3 9 (13.43%) VMware
4 6 (8.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.97%) Citrix
5 4 (5.97%) Databricks
6 3 (4.48%) BMC
6 3 (4.48%) Commvault
6 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.48%) Remedy
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco
7 2 (2.99%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.99%) Sitecore
7 2 (2.99%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.49%) Dell
8 1 (1.49%) Informatica
8 1 (1.49%) Isilon
8 1 (1.49%) PTC
8 1 (1.49%) RedGate