SQL Server Developer Contract Job Trends in London

SQL Server Developer
England > London

The median SQL Server Developer daily rate in London is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 339 386
Rank change year-on-year -85 +47 +90
Contract jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.011% 0.033% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.035% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile - - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £655
England median daily rate £650 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +62.50% -30.43% +9.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 17,049 11,286 16,405
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.51% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,271 7,654 11,842
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £433 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 157 327
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £47.18
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.10 £67.40
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

SQL Server Developer job vacancy trend in London

SQL Server Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

SQL Server Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 London region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
1 1 (50.00%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL