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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 49 35
Rank change year-on-year -32 -14 -14
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 42 87 135
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.33% 4.05% 5.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.93% 19.33% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 99
10th Percentile £410 £400 £425
25th Percentile £459 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £688
90th Percentile £711 £739 £780
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -6.52% -3.77% +3.91%

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 352 450 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 20.95% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 303 355
10th Percentile £342 £408 £375
25th Percentile £425 £478 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £594
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -1.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £698
90th Percentile £751 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £32.15 - -
25th Percentile £32.38 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%

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 6 December 2025.

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 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) CICS
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) IIS
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.38%) Endur
2 1 (2.38%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.38%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (2.38%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) IaaS
4 3 (7.14%) PaaS
4 3 (7.14%) SaaS
4 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.38%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.38%) dbt
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (9.52%) MySQL
2 4 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (9.52%) Redis
2 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Power Query
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 4 (9.52%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Maven
3 2 (4.76%) JUnit
3 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) jMock
4 1 (2.38%) Mockito
General
1 20 (47.62%) Finance
2 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 5 (11.90%) DBA
4 4 (9.52%) Administrator
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.14%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Database Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (4.76%) Risk Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) .NET Framework
2 5 (11.90%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) HTML
4 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.14%) jQuery
4 3 (7.14%) React
5 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 2 (4.76%) Spring
5 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.76%) Vue
6 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.38%) JSON
6 1 (2.38%) Next.js
6 1 (2.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Derivative
2 3 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Clustering
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Replication
3 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) State Machine
4 1 (2.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) AIX
5 1 (2.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) DevOps
2 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (14.29%) Agile
3 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (14.29%) Microservices
3 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
4 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
4 5 (11.90%) ETL
4 5 (11.90%) Migration
4 5 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (11.90%) SDLC
5 4 (9.52%) Analytics
5 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
6 3 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 3 (7.14%) High Availability
6 3 (7.14%) MVC
6 3 (7.14%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (30.95%) C#
3 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) Python
5 2 (4.76%) AWK
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) sed
6 1 (2.38%) COBOL
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.76%) MCITP
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) GPFS
2 2 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) GridGain
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (4.76%) SCOM
2 1 (2.38%) Ambari
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
2 1 (2.38%) Puppet
2 1 (2.38%) WMI
2 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Oracle
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) HP
3 2 (4.76%) Informatica
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.76%) Solace
3 2 (4.76%) Sybase
3 2 (4.76%) Talend
4 1 (2.38%) Citrix
4 1 (2.38%) Intapp
4 1 (2.38%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.38%) NetApp
4 1 (2.38%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.38%) OpenText
4 1 (2.38%) Portware
4 1 (2.38%) SAP
4 1 (2.38%) Spotify