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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 48 33
Rank change year-on-year -35 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 54 78 123
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.23% 4.45% 5.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.60% 19.40% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 80
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £531
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +5.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £725 £826
Central London median daily rate £575 £560 £505
% change year-on-year +2.68% +10.89% -15.83%
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 397 402 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.39% 22.95% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 269 346
10th Percentile £350 £404 £403
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £712
90th Percentile £749 £775 £794
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.94 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.09 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £72.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £89.13 -
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 26 June 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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.41%) Apache
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.56%) IIS
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 28 (51.85%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 9 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.81%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (12.96%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.41%) GitHub
7 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.41%) SaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.85%) Dagster
10 1 (1.85%) dbt
10 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) DHCP
1 3 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) Internet
2 2 (3.70%) Intranet
3 1 (1.85%) Multicast
3 1 (1.85%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (16.67%) Power BI
2 8 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
6 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.56%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.70%) Metadata
8 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.70%) Redis
8 2 (3.70%) Spark SQL
8 2 (3.70%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.56%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.70%) ERwin
4 2 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.85%) GitLab
5 1 (1.85%) JUnit
5 1 (1.85%) Maven
5 1 (1.85%) Mockito
5 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (29.63%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Banking
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Front Office
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Back Office
6 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Local Government
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 9 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 6 (11.11%) Consultant
4 6 (11.11%) DBA
4 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 6 (11.11%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 6 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
5 5 (9.26%) Senior
6 4 (7.41%) Administrator
6 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.70%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) .NET
2 7 (12.96%) .NET Framework
3 5 (9.26%) REST
4 4 (7.41%) Kafka
5 3 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.56%) XML
6 2 (3.70%) ADO.NET
6 2 (3.70%) Ajax
6 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.70%) PySpark
6 2 (3.70%) React
6 2 (3.70%) SOAP
6 2 (3.70%) Web Services
6 2 (3.70%) XSL
6 2 (3.70%) XSLT
7 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.85%) Blazor
7 1 (1.85%) Playwright
7 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.70%) Derivative
2 2 (3.70%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.70%) Replication
2 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.85%) Clustering
3 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.85%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Windows
2 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Linux
4 3 (5.56%) Unix
5 1 (1.85%) VMS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) DevOps
2 13 (24.07%) Analytics
3 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.52%) Agile
4 10 (18.52%) ETL
5 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 9 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 9 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 8 (14.81%) Migration
6 8 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.26%) AI
8 5 (9.26%) Data Governance
8 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (9.26%) SDLC
8 5 (9.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 35 (64.81%) SQL
2 17 (31.48%) C#
3 12 (22.22%) Python
4 9 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 7 (12.96%) PL/SQL
6 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.85%) Go
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (7.41%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) CCA
6 1 (1.85%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) QA
2 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) GridGain
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) XenApp
3 1 (1.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.85%) SCCM
3 1 (1.85%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.22%) Oracle
3 6 (11.11%) Citrix
4 5 (9.26%) Databricks
4 5 (9.26%) VMware
5 3 (5.56%) Informatica
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.85%) Dell
7 1 (1.85%) Denodo
7 1 (1.85%) EMC
7 1 (1.85%) Google
7 1 (1.85%) Isilon
7 1 (1.85%) RedGate
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Solace
7 1 (1.85%) Sybase