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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 -17
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 36 77 103
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.84% 4.19% 4.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.47% 20.48% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 55 67
10th Percentile £369 £418 £381
25th Percentile £434 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £683 £728
90th Percentile £638 £690 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +8.70%

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 344 376 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.62% 20.46% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 245 341
10th Percentile £341 £406 £413
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -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 22 February 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 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) dbt
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.11%) Redis
3 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (5.56%) OLAP
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.78%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (5.56%) ERwin
4 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) jMock
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Mockito
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Banking
4 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Local Government
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 3 (8.33%) DBA
4 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.33%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Support
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Support Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Support Manager
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) JSON
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (2.78%) jQuery
3 1 (2.78%) JSP
3 1 (2.78%) MyBatis
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) WinForms
3 1 (2.78%) WPF
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Derivative
2 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.33%) Credit Risk
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.78%) NHS
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) ETL
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Analytics
5 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Microservices
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Data Governance
6 3 (8.33%) Data Integration
6 3 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) CCA
3 1 (2.78%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) GridGain
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) XenApp
2 1 (2.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Oracle
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (5.56%) Intapp
4 2 (5.56%) Solace
4 2 (5.56%) Sybase
4 2 (5.56%) Talend
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.78%) SAP