SQL Server Developer Contract Job Trends in England

SQL Server Developer
UK > England

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 485 536
Rank change year-on-year -63 +51 +120
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 4 8 17
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.031% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.033% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £413 £404 £387
25th Percentile £431 £466 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £581 £556 £613
90th Percentile £638 £568 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -14.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 31,201 23,999 35,365
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 93.03% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,793 14,993 23,712
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,009 697 2,128
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.23 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.53
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -5.74%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SQL Server Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

SQL Server Developer job vacancy trend in England

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in England

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Developer in England over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Developer in England

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in England

SQL Server Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
London -42 2 £400 -23.81%
South East - 1 £475 - 1
SQL Server Developer
UK

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, SQL Server Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) JMeter
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle