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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 69 36
Rank change year-on-year -4 -33 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 65 54 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.95% 3.10% 4.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.41% 13.99% 22.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 39 77
10th Percentile £313 £404 £370
25th Percentile £413 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% -4.96%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £675
90th Percentile £735 £680 £760
Central London median daily rate £538 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +8.48% -9.91% -8.33%
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 396 386 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.98% 22.18% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 269 320
10th Percentile £350 £394 £406
25th Percentile £455 £434 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £24.25 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £32.13 £36.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £48.25 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.59% +25.32% -12.50%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile - £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £48.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.59% +20.63% -9.09%

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 1 October 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 (9.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.69%) IIS
3 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.62%) Confluence
4 2 (3.08%) Apache
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (4.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (10.77%) AWS
7 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
8 5 (7.69%) GitHub
9 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Databricks
11 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.54%) Alation
12 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (1.54%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) DHCP
2 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.08%) Internet
3 2 (3.08%) Intranet
3 2 (3.08%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (3.08%) SSL
3 2 (3.08%) VLAN
3 2 (3.08%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) Power BI
2 9 (13.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.85%) Relational Database
2 9 (13.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.15%) Power Query
5 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (6.15%) Star Schema
6 3 (4.62%) ClickHouse
7 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Metadata
7 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.08%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.54%) OLAP
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) JIRA
2 9 (13.85%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (6.15%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 25 (38.46%) Finance
2 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Banking
4 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Front Office
6 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Back Office
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.54%) Billing
8 1 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) C# Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) DBA
7 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) Functional Consultant
7 4 (6.15%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.15%) SQL DBA
8 3 (4.62%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.77%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) .NET Framework
3 7 (10.77%) REST
4 6 (9.23%) Terraform
5 4 (6.15%) OAuth
5 4 (6.15%) XML
6 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.62%) JSON
7 2 (3.08%) Ajax
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (3.08%) CSS
7 2 (3.08%) Kafka
7 2 (3.08%) OpenID
7 2 (3.08%) PySpark
7 2 (3.08%) React
7 2 (3.08%) SOAP
7 2 (3.08%) WCF
7 2 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.69%) Clustering
2 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.62%) PKI
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.85%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.69%) Linux
4 3 (4.62%) Unix
4 3 (4.62%) VMS
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) DevOps
2 18 (27.69%) Migration
3 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.54%) Agile
4 14 (21.54%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (18.46%) Analytics
6 11 (16.92%) Data Modelling
6 11 (16.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (13.85%) Unit Testing
8 8 (12.31%) ETL
9 7 (10.77%) Data Governance
9 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (10.77%) Validation
10 6 (9.23%) Change Control
10 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (9.23%) Incident Management
10 6 (9.23%) SDLC
10 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
10 6 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (70.77%) SQL
2 23 (35.38%) C#
3 18 (27.69%) PowerShell
4 17 (26.15%) Python
5 7 (10.77%) T-SQL
6 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
7 5 (7.69%) Java
8 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.08%) Bash
10 2 (3.08%) Korn
11 1 (1.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.15%) SCOM
2 3 (4.62%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (3.08%) Grafana
3 2 (3.08%) PowerCLI
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.54%) Packer
4 1 (1.54%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.08%) Oracle
3 9 (13.85%) VMware
4 6 (9.23%) Databricks
4 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.15%) Citrix
6 3 (4.62%) BMC
6 3 (4.62%) Commvault
6 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.62%) Remedy
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco
7 2 (3.08%) Informatica
7 2 (3.08%) ION Trading
7 2 (3.08%) Sitecore
7 2 (3.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) EMC
8 1 (1.54%) Isilon
8 1 (1.54%) PTC
8 1 (1.54%) RedGate