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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 50 38
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 -17
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 51 87 142
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.91% 4.10% 5.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.82% 19.77% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 66 105
10th Percentile £404 £400 £425
25th Percentile £424 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.64% -3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £675 £763 £785
Central London median daily rate £498 £578 £595
% change year-on-year -13.81% -2.94% +3.48%

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 369 440 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.04% 20.73% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 308 365
10th Percentile £363 £406 £375
25th Percentile £425 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

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 15 November 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 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.96%) CICS
1 1 (1.96%) Confluence
1 1 (1.96%) IIS
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (3.92%) OpenText MBPM
3 1 (1.96%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.96%) Endur
3 1 (1.96%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.96%) Maximo
3 1 (1.96%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.80%) PaaS
4 4 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.88%) IaaS
5 3 (5.88%) SaaS
5 3 (5.88%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.92%) GitHub
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database
3 5 (9.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (7.84%) MySQL
4 4 (7.84%) Power BI
4 4 (7.84%) Redis
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.84%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Maven
3 2 (3.92%) JUnit
3 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) jMock
4 1 (1.96%) Mockito
General
1 29 (56.86%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 13 (25.49%) Banking
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (49.02%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) C# Developer
3 7 (13.73%) .NET Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Applications Developer
5 5 (9.80%) DBA
6 4 (7.84%) Administrator
6 4 (7.84%) Automation Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Architect
7 3 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.88%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Database Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (33.33%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) .NET Core
2 6 (11.76%) CSS
2 6 (11.76%) HTML
3 5 (9.80%) .NET Framework
3 5 (9.80%) REST
4 3 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.88%) jQuery
4 3 (5.88%) React
4 3 (5.88%) WPF
5 2 (3.92%) Django
5 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.92%) Leaflet
5 2 (3.92%) RESTful
5 2 (3.92%) Spring
5 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.92%) Vue
6 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Derivative
2 3 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
3 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.96%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.96%) State Machine
4 1 (1.96%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.96%) AIX
4 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) DevOps
2 13 (25.49%) Data Analysis
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
4 9 (17.65%) ETL
5 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 6 (11.76%) Microservices
7 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.76%) Visualisation
8 5 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.80%) Migration
8 5 (9.80%) SDLC
9 4 (7.84%) Analytics
9 4 (7.84%) Business Case
9 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.84%) Data Reconciliation
9 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (7.84%) Robotic Process Automation
9 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (56.86%) SQL
2 22 (43.14%) C#
3 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) Python
5 4 (7.84%) Java
6 3 (5.88%) VBA
7 2 (3.92%) AWK
7 2 (3.92%) Bash
7 2 (3.92%) sed
8 1 (1.96%) COBOL
8 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.92%) MCITP
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) GPFS
2 2 (3.92%) NFS
3 1 (1.96%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) GridGain
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (3.92%) SCOM
2 1 (1.96%) Ambari
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Puppet
2 1 (1.96%) WMI
2 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Oracle
2 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.92%) HP
3 2 (3.92%) Informatica
3 2 (3.92%) OpenText
3 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.92%) Solace
3 2 (3.92%) Sybase
3 2 (3.92%) Talend
3 2 (3.92%) UiPath
4 1 (1.96%) Citrix
4 1 (1.96%) Intapp
4 1 (1.96%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.96%) NetApp
4 1 (1.96%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.96%) Portware
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) Spotify