SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.17% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £550 £675 £430
% change year-on-year -18.52% +56.98% -11.79%

All Database & BI Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 44 33 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 30.56% 41.77% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 20
10th Percentile £456 £451 £425
25th Percentile £487 £473 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £503 £519
Median % change year-on-year +6.41% -3.08% +6.41%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £538
90th Percentile £641 £630 £546
South London median daily rate £537 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +15.00% +5.26%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Croydon

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Croydon - 1 £525 - 1
SQL Server
South London

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) DBA
2 5 (83.33%) Administrator
3 4 (66.67%) Senior
3 4 (66.67%) Senior DBA
4 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Administrator
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 6 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Business Continuity
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality