SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 378 407
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 +138
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2 15 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.094% 0.65% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 20
10th Percentile £209 £451 £350
25th Percentile £260 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +3.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £455 £638 £624
90th Percentile £511 £688 £650
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +1.01%

All Development Application Skills
London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,125 2,325 2,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.87% 14.49% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 1,563 2,175
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 29
10th Percentile £36.63 £25.99 £31.00
25th Percentile £41.69 £28.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -34.78% +35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.34 £75.00
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.88 £87.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) job vacancy trend in London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in London over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in London

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Health
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) RedGate