SQL Server Contract Job Trends in East London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.88% 5.47% 5.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 41.18% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £524 £300 £400
25th Percentile £530 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £400 £473
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -15.34% +18.13%
75th Percentile - £448 £495
90th Percentile - £495 £565
London median daily rate £520 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18 17 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 17.31% 13.28% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 54
10th Percentile £418 £300 £400
25th Percentile £450 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £476 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -17.30% +21.05%
75th Percentile £540 £539 £588
90th Percentile - £638 £650
London median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.28%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in East London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. 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
Tower Hamlets 0 3 £540 +9.09%
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) NeoLoad
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Sass
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle