SQL Server Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 38
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 78 123 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.51% 5.63% 5.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.70% 24.60% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 81 118
10th Percentile £404 £363 £418
25th Percentile £425 £425 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -16.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £738
90th Percentile £725 £825 £793
Central London median daily rate £560 £505 £625
% change year-on-year +10.89% -19.20% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 396 500 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.92% 22.89% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 352 441
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £609
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -5.58% +3.66%
75th Percentile £691 £710 £730
90th Percentile £775 £799 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £21.94 - £42.50
25th Percentile £30.09 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £72.81 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £89.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

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 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in the City of London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.41%) Apache
1 5 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) IIS
2 2 (2.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.85%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.28%) Endur
2 1 (1.28%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.28%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.74%) Azure
2 13 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
4 8 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (6.41%) SaaS
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (5.13%) CloudFront
7 4 (5.13%) PaaS
7 4 (5.13%) Route 53
8 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.85%) GitHub
8 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) DNS
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (2.56%) HTTP
3 2 (2.56%) Network Security
3 2 (2.56%) SSH
4 1 (1.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) Power BI
1 11 (14.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (8.97%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (6.41%) Big Data
6 5 (6.41%) Redis
6 5 (6.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.41%) Tableau
7 4 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.13%) DocumentDB
7 4 (5.13%) MySQL
7 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.85%) DB2
8 3 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) GitLab
3 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) JMeter
3 2 (2.56%) RStudio
3 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.28%) Postman
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (55.13%) Finance
2 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.79%) Banking
4 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.97%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Back Office
6 4 (5.13%) Front Office
6 4 (5.13%) Legal
6 4 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Advertising
8 1 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.28%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.28%) International Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (47.44%) Developer
2 16 (20.51%) Analyst
3 10 (12.82%) Senior
4 9 (11.54%) C# Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Applications Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (6.41%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Applications Support
8 4 (5.13%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.13%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) BPM Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Django Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Python/Django Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) .NET
2 9 (11.54%) RESTful
3 7 (8.97%) React
3 7 (8.97%) REST
4 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
4 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.41%) CSS
4 5 (6.41%) HTML
5 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.13%) Kafka
6 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.85%) Django
6 3 (3.85%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.85%) JSON
6 3 (3.85%) Leaflet
6 3 (3.85%) Pandas
6 3 (3.85%) PySpark
6 3 (3.85%) Spring
6 3 (3.85%) Web Services
6 3 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.41%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.41%) Derivative
3 4 (5.13%) Clustering
3 4 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.85%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Pricing Data
5 2 (2.56%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.56%) Replication
6 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.67%) Windows
2 11 (14.10%) Linux
3 7 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.92%) Agile
2 17 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.51%) Data Analysis
4 14 (17.95%) DevOps
5 12 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 12 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 12 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 11 (14.10%) Data Modelling
7 10 (12.82%) Visualisation
8 9 (11.54%) Data Management
8 9 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.97%) Business Analysis
10 7 (8.97%) ETL
10 7 (8.97%) SDLC
10 7 (8.97%) TDD
10 7 (8.97%) User Experience
11 6 (7.69%) Asset Management
11 6 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 42 (53.85%) SQL
2 32 (41.03%) C#
3 20 (25.64%) Python
4 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.54%) Java
6 5 (6.41%) Scala
6 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.41%) VBA
7 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.85%) Bash
8 3 (3.85%) Perl
9 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.56%) R
9 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.28%) AWK
10 1 (1.28%) Ruby
10 1 (1.28%) sed
Qualifications
1 11 (14.10%) Degree
2 4 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.56%) VCAP
4 2 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.13%) GDPR
4 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.85%) EMIR
4 3 (3.85%) MiFID
5 2 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.28%) GAAP
6 1 (1.28%) IFRS
6 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) GPFS
3 1 (1.28%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.41%) Terraform
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (41.03%) Oracle
2 21 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.97%) Databricks
4 5 (6.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.13%) VMware
6 3 (3.85%) OpenText
6 3 (3.85%) Sybase
7 2 (2.56%) Atempo
7 2 (2.56%) F5
7 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.56%) Mellanox
7 2 (2.56%) UiPath
8 1 (1.28%) Avaya
8 1 (1.28%) Calypso
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco
8 1 (1.28%) HP
8 1 (1.28%) Informatica
8 1 (1.28%) ION Trading
8 1 (1.28%) Murex
8 1 (1.28%) SAP