SQL Server Developer Contracts in London

SQL Server Developer
England > London

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 384 477
Rank change year-on-year +36 +93 +88
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 5 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.039% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.042% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 16
10th Percentile - £560 £488
25th Percentile - £575 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £450 £625 £678
90th Percentile £480 £655 £694
England median daily rate £450 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -21.74% +9.00% +5.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured SQL Server Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Developer in London

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer in London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Developer in London

SQL Server Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Developer in London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Developer in London

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, SQL Server Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) NuGet
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) Sass
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CRM
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Ideation Sessions
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk