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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 49 33
Rank change year-on-year -28 -16 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 58 79 124
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.39% 4.24% 5.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.54% 18.04% 25.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 60 84
10th Percentile £313 £404 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £675
90th Percentile £739 £728 £814
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £505
% change year-on-year +4.55% +8.91% -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 399 438 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.43% 23.52% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 293 339
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £668 £694 £717
90th Percentile £763 £775 £817
Central London median daily rate £553 £553 £575
% change year-on-year - -3.91% -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 17 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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.90%) Apache
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (13.79%) AWS
4 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (12.07%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (10.34%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.90%) GitHub
7 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (6.90%) SaaS
8 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.72%) Dagster
10 1 (1.72%) dbt
10 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.72%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) DHCP
1 3 (5.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) Internet
2 2 (3.45%) Intranet
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) Multicast
3 1 (1.72%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.72%) SSH
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
2 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.17%) Star Schema
6 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.45%) Redis
6 2 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.45%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
3 3 (5.17%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.72%) ERwin
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Maven
5 1 (1.72%) Mockito
5 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Banking
3 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Front Office
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Developer
2 9 (15.52%) C# Developer
2 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) DBA
4 7 (12.07%) Senior
5 6 (10.34%) Consultant
5 6 (10.34%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (10.34%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 6 (10.34%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (8.62%) SQL DBA
7 4 (6.90%) Administrator
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Architect
9 2 (3.45%) Data Migration Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Junior
9 2 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) .NET
2 7 (12.07%) .NET Framework
3 6 (10.34%) REST
4 4 (6.90%) Kafka
5 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.17%) XML
6 2 (3.45%) ADO.NET
6 2 (3.45%) Ajax
6 2 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (3.45%) PySpark
6 2 (3.45%) React
6 2 (3.45%) SOAP
6 2 (3.45%) Spring
6 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.45%) Web Services
6 2 (3.45%) XSL
6 2 (3.45%) XSLT
7 1 (1.72%) Blazor
7 1 (1.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.17%) Replication
2 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.45%) Clustering
2 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.45%) Derivative
2 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.72%) PKI
3 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Windows
2 12 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.90%) Linux
4 3 (5.17%) Unix
5 2 (3.45%) VMS
6 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) DevOps
2 12 (20.69%) Analytics
3 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.97%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (15.52%) Agile
4 9 (15.52%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (15.52%) Data Engineering
4 9 (15.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (15.52%) Unit Testing
5 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (13.79%) ETL
5 8 (13.79%) Migration
6 7 (12.07%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.62%) AI
7 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis
7 5 (8.62%) High Availability
7 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.62%) SDLC
7 5 (8.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (65.52%) SQL
2 18 (31.03%) C#
3 12 (20.69%) Python
4 10 (17.24%) T-SQL
5 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
6 7 (12.07%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.17%) Java
8 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.72%) Bicep
9 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) Korn
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
9 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Degree
4 4 (6.90%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) CCA
6 1 (1.72%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) GridGain
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.72%) XenApp
3 1 (1.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.72%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.72%) SCCM
3 1 (1.72%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) Oracle
3 6 (10.34%) Citrix
4 5 (8.62%) VMware
5 4 (6.90%) Databricks
6 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco
7 2 (3.45%) Informatica
7 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.72%) Dell
8 1 (1.72%) Denodo
8 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.72%) EMC
8 1 (1.72%) Isilon
8 1 (1.72%) RedGate
8 1 (1.72%) Solace
8 1 (1.72%) Sybase