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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 -21 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 59 79 126
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.40% 4.24% 5.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.46% 18.29% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 83
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% -14.58%
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 408 432 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.59% 23.18% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 291 346
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £715
90th Percentile £753 £775 £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.63% -3.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 £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 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
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 11 July 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 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (11.86%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (10.17%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.78%) GitHub
6 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (6.78%) SaaS
7 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.69%) Dagster
9 1 (1.69%) dbt
9 1 (1.69%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DHCP
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) Internet
2 2 (3.39%) Intranet
3 1 (1.69%) Firewall
3 1 (1.69%) Multicast
3 1 (1.69%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.69%) SSH
3 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (16.95%) Power BI
2 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.08%) Delta Lake
5 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.08%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Metadata
6 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.39%) OLAP
6 2 (3.39%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.39%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
2 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (6.78%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.39%) ERwin
3 2 (3.39%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) JUnit
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Mockito
4 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (30.51%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Banking
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Front Office
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Back Office
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Developer
2 10 (16.95%) Data Engineer
3 9 (15.25%) C# Developer
4 7 (11.86%) DBA
5 6 (10.17%) Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Administrator
6 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) SQL DBA
7 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Junior
8 2 (3.39%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) .NET Framework
3 6 (10.17%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) Kafka
5 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.08%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.08%) XML
6 2 (3.39%) ADO.NET
6 2 (3.39%) Ajax
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.39%) PySpark
6 2 (3.39%) React
6 2 (3.39%) SOAP
6 2 (3.39%) Spring
6 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.39%) Web Services
6 2 (3.39%) XSL
6 2 (3.39%) XSLT
7 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.69%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.39%) Derivative
2 2 (3.39%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.39%) Replication
2 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.69%) Clustering
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) PKI
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Windows
2 12 (20.34%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.78%) Linux
4 3 (5.08%) Unix
5 2 (3.39%) VMS
6 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) DevOps
2 13 (22.03%) Analytics
3 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
4 10 (16.95%) Agile
4 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (16.95%) ETL
4 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
5 9 (15.25%) Data Modelling
5 9 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (15.25%) Migration
5 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
6 8 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
9 5 (8.47%) AI
9 5 (8.47%) Data Governance
9 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.47%) SDLC
9 5 (8.47%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (66.10%) SQL
2 18 (30.51%) C#
3 14 (23.73%) Python
4 10 (16.95%) T-SQL
5 7 (11.86%) PL/SQL
5 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.08%) Java
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Korn
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) CCA
6 1 (1.69%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) QA
2 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) GridGain
3 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.69%) XenApp
3 1 (1.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.69%) SCCM
3 1 (1.69%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.42%) Oracle
3 6 (10.17%) Citrix
4 5 (8.47%) Databricks
4 5 (8.47%) VMware
5 3 (5.08%) Informatica
5 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco
6 2 (3.39%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) Dell
7 1 (1.69%) Denodo
7 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.69%) EMC
7 1 (1.69%) Google
7 1 (1.69%) Isilon
7 1 (1.69%) RedGate
7 1 (1.69%) Solace
7 1 (1.69%) Sybase