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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 65 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 -27 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 65 59 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.85% 3.28% 5.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.17% 14.53% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 40 78
10th Percentile £320 £404 £363
25th Percentile £415 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -13.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £647 £675
90th Percentile £728 £682 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £496 £545
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.08% -9.17%
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 402 406 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.63% 22.58% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 266 323
10th Percentile £359 £402 £401
25th Percentile £463 £442 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £679 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 10 September 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 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.62%) Apache
3 3 (4.62%) Confluence
3 3 (4.62%) IIS
4 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) 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 36 (55.38%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) AWS
7 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (9.23%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.15%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.15%) GitHub
8 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
9 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.08%) SaaS
11 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) 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%) VLAN
3 2 (3.08%) VPN
4 1 (1.54%) Firewall
4 1 (1.54%) Multicast
4 1 (1.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) Power BI
2 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (13.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (12.31%) Relational Database
5 7 (10.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (7.69%) Oracle Database
6 5 (7.69%) Star Schema
7 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.15%) Power Query
7 4 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (4.62%) ClickHouse
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.08%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (3.08%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) JIRA
2 8 (12.31%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (6.15%) Artifactory
4 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.54%) Maven
6 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (38.46%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Banking
4 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.77%) 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 18 (27.69%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) C# Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Senior
3 8 (12.31%) Senior Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 5 (7.69%) DBA
6 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Consultant
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 Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) .NET Framework
3 7 (10.77%) Terraform
4 6 (9.23%) REST
5 4 (6.15%) XML
6 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.08%) ADO.NET
7 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
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%) HTML
7 2 (3.08%) JSON
7 2 (3.08%) Kafka
7 2 (3.08%) PySpark
7 2 (3.08%) SOAP
7 2 (3.08%) WCF
7 2 (3.08%) Web Services
7 2 (3.08%) XSL
7 2 (3.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.69%) Clustering
2 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.85%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 6 (9.23%) Linux
4 4 (6.15%) Unix
5 3 (4.62%) VMS
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) DevOps
2 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
3 15 (23.08%) Migration
4 13 (20.00%) Analytics
4 13 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (18.46%) Agile
6 11 (16.92%) Data Modelling
7 10 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (15.38%) ETL
8 9 (13.85%) Unit Testing
9 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (9.23%) AI
11 6 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.23%) SDLC
11 6 (9.23%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (72.31%) SQL
2 23 (35.38%) C#
3 17 (26.15%) PowerShell
3 17 (26.15%) Python
4 7 (10.77%) T-SQL
5 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
6 5 (7.69%) Java
7 4 (6.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.08%) Bash
9 2 (3.08%) Korn
10 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.00%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.54%) Docker
4 1 (1.54%) GridGain
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) SCOM
3 3 (4.62%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (3.08%) Grafana
4 2 (3.08%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.54%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.54%) Packer
5 1 (1.54%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.08%) Oracle
3 9 (13.85%) VMware
4 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
5 5 (7.69%) Databricks
6 4 (6.15%) Citrix
7 3 (4.62%) BMC
7 3 (4.62%) Commvault
7 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.62%) Remedy
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco
8 2 (3.08%) Informatica
8 2 (3.08%) ION Trading
8 2 (3.08%) Sitecore
8 2 (3.08%) Splunk
9 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.54%) PTC
9 1 (1.54%) Solace
9 1 (1.54%) Sybase
9 1 (1.54%) Talend