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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 45 36
Rank change year-on-year -41 -9 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 46 80 110
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.01% 4.60% 5.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.98% 20.20% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 55 65
10th Percentile £300 £412 £363
25th Percentile £406 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -17.32%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £675
90th Percentile £738 £690 £838
Central London median daily rate £568 £575 £505
% change year-on-year -1.30% +13.86% -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 384 396 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.77% 22.78% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 251 320
10th Percentile £338 £404 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £746 £763 £803
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -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 14 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 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.52%) Apache
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 7 (15.22%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (13.04%) GitHub
5 6 (13.04%) Power Automate
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (8.70%) SaaS
8 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.17%) Dagster
9 1 (2.17%) GCP
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.17%) PaaS
9 1 (2.17%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Multicast
1 1 (2.17%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (13.04%) Power BI
5 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
6 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.35%) Metadata
7 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 2 (4.35%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) ERwin
2 2 (4.35%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) JUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Maven
3 1 (2.17%) Mockito
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (30.43%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Front Office
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Back Office
5 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Local Government
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) DBA
4 6 (13.04%) Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Functional Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Administrator
6 4 (8.70%) C# Developer
6 4 (8.70%) SQL DBA
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Applications Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Applications Support
8 2 (4.35%) Applications Support Manager
8 2 (4.35%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
2 2 (4.35%) React
2 2 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) Playwright
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) XML
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.35%) Derivative
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Clustering
3 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.17%) NHS
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.70%) Linux
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) DevOps
2 10 (21.74%) Analytics
3 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
3 8 (17.39%) ETL
3 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (13.04%) AI
5 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.04%) Validation
6 5 (10.87%) Migration
6 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.70%) Agile
7 4 (8.70%) Data Integration
7 4 (8.70%) Data Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (6.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) C#
4 5 (10.87%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CCA
4 1 (2.17%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.87%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) GridGain
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) XenApp
2 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
3 1 (2.17%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) Citrix
2 3 (6.52%) Databricks
2 3 (6.52%) Informatica
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Denodo
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Intapp
4 1 (2.17%) RedGate
4 1 (2.17%) Solace
4 1 (2.17%) Sybase