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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 56 30
Rank change year-on-year -19 -26 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 66 72 122
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.80% 3.86% 5.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.75% 16.78% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 51 82
10th Percentile £324 £404 £363
25th Percentile £416 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -8.80%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £746 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £505
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% -13.30%
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 394 429 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.74% 22.99% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 285 329
10th Percentile £355 £404 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £652 £690 £725
90th Percentile £763 £783 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
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 14 August 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 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.06%) Apache
2 4 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.55%) Confluence
3 3 (4.55%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.06%) Azure
2 19 (28.79%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (12.12%) Power Automate
6 7 (10.61%) AWS
6 7 (10.61%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.55%) SaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.52%) Dagster
11 1 (1.52%) dbt
11 1 (1.52%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) Internet
3 2 (3.03%) Intranet
3 2 (3.03%) VLAN
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) Firewall
4 1 (1.52%) Multicast
4 1 (1.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Power BI
2 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 8 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (7.58%) Oracle Database
6 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.58%) Star Schema
7 4 (6.06%) Power Query
7 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.55%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.03%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.03%) Redis
9 2 (3.03%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (3.03%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) JIRA
2 7 (10.61%) Git
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
5 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.06%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.52%) GitLab
8 1 (1.52%) JUnit
8 1 (1.52%) Maven
8 1 (1.52%) Mockito
8 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (36.36%) Finance
2 18 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.24%) Banking
4 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Front Office
6 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) DBA
5 6 (9.09%) Consultant
5 6 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (9.09%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.58%) SQL DBA
6 5 (7.58%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Administrator
8 3 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Applications Support
8 3 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) .NET Framework
3 6 (9.09%) REST
4 4 (6.06%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.55%) XML
6 2 (3.03%) ADO.NET
6 2 (3.03%) Ajax
6 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.03%) PySpark
6 2 (3.03%) React
6 2 (3.03%) SOAP
6 2 (3.03%) Spring
6 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
6 2 (3.03%) XSL
6 2 (3.03%) XSLT
7 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.52%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Clustering
1 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Windows
2 15 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.09%) Linux
4 3 (4.55%) Unix
4 3 (4.55%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) DevOps
2 15 (22.73%) Analytics
2 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 13 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (16.67%) Migration
5 10 (15.15%) Data Modelling
5 10 (15.15%) ETL
5 10 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (15.15%) Unit Testing
6 9 (13.64%) Agile
7 8 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (10.61%) Data Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) AI
9 6 (9.09%) High Availability
9 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (9.09%) SDLC
9 6 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (68.18%) SQL
2 21 (31.82%) C#
3 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 14 (21.21%) Python
5 8 (12.12%) T-SQL
6 7 (10.61%) PL/SQL
7 5 (7.58%) Java
8 4 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.03%) Bash
10 2 (3.03%) Korn
10 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.52%) Scala
11 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.73%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.55%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) GridGain
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.61%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (4.55%) SCOM
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.52%) Packer
5 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.73%) Oracle
3 8 (12.12%) VMware
4 5 (7.58%) Citrix
4 5 (7.58%) Databricks
4 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) BMC
5 3 (4.55%) Commvault
5 3 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.55%) Remedy
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (3.03%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.03%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Dell
7 1 (1.52%) Denodo
7 1 (1.52%) EMC
7 1 (1.52%) Isilon
7 1 (1.52%) Sybase