SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 40 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 80 103 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.56% 4.69% 5.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.41% 21.33% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 127
10th Percentile £425 £363 £426
25th Percentile £510 £428 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £531 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% -15.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £725
90th Percentile £690 £838 £780
Central London median daily rate £585 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +15.84% -19.20% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £52.50

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 392 483 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.32% 21.98% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 324 491
10th Percentile £405 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £728
90th Percentile £752 £796 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

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

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

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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 (8.75%) Apache
1 7 (8.75%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) IIS
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) Actimize
3 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub
4 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (7.50%) CloudFront
5 6 (7.50%) Route 53
6 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (6.25%) SaaS
7 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (5.00%) SSH
3 3 (3.75%) Firewall
4 2 (2.50%) HTTP
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.25%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (15.00%) Power BI
3 10 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.00%) Redis
4 8 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (7.50%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (7.50%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (7.50%) DocumentDB
5 6 (7.50%) MySQL
5 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (6.25%) Big Data
6 5 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 5 (6.25%) Tableau
7 4 (5.00%) Apache Hive
7 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Git
2 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.75%) JIRA
3 4 (5.00%) RStudio
4 3 (3.75%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) GitLab
5 2 (2.50%) JMeter
5 2 (2.50%) Postman
5 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.25%) Maven
6 1 (1.25%) NUnit
6 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.25%) Selenium
6 1 (1.25%) Serena SBM
6 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.25%) Subversion
6 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (48.75%) Finance
2 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Banking
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Back Office
5 6 (7.50%) Retail Banking
6 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Front Office
7 4 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Advertising
9 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (43.75%) Developer
2 14 (17.50%) Analyst
3 12 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.00%) SQL Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Software Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) .NET
2 15 (18.75%) RESTful
3 10 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 9 (11.25%) React
4 9 (11.25%) Web Services
5 7 (8.75%) JSON
5 7 (8.75%) Kafka
6 6 (7.50%) CSS
6 6 (7.50%) HTML
6 6 (7.50%) REST
7 5 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (6.25%) OAuth
7 5 (6.25%) PySpark
8 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.00%) Pandas
8 4 (5.00%) pydantic
8 4 (5.00%) Spring
8 4 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Derivative
1 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.00%) Clustering
4 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.75%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Replication
7 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.25%) Equities
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Linux
1 15 (18.75%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 17 (21.25%) DevOps
5 12 (15.00%) SOLID
5 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
6 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
7 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 9 (11.25%) Data Management
8 9 (11.25%) TDD
9 7 (8.75%) Asset Management
9 7 (8.75%) Business Analysis
9 7 (8.75%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (8.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (8.75%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (8.75%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (8.75%) User Experience
10 6 (7.50%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 30 (37.50%) C#
1 30 (37.50%) SQL
2 23 (28.75%) Python
3 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
4 11 (13.75%) Java
5 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.75%) Scala
6 5 (6.25%) Bash
6 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.00%) Perl
7 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.50%) R
8 2 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) Bicep
9 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.50%) VCAP
4 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) GDPR
2 5 (6.25%) EMIR
2 5 (6.25%) MiFID
3 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.00%) QA
4 3 (3.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.25%) Control-M
4 1 (1.25%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (1.25%) QRadar
4 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (31.25%) Oracle
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) Databricks
3 8 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.75%) Sybase
5 5 (6.25%) VMware
6 3 (3.75%) Informatica
6 3 (3.75%) SAP
7 2 (2.50%) Atempo
7 2 (2.50%) F5
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.50%) Mellanox
8 1 (1.25%) Avaya
8 1 (1.25%) BMC
8 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.25%) HP
8 1 (1.25%) Qualys
8 1 (1.25%) Solace
8 1 (1.25%) Splunk