SQL Server Contracts in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 426 872 1,190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.21% 4.96% 4.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.92% 21.38% 23.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 604 929
10th Percentile £377 £363 £400
25th Percentile £424 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £661 £700
90th Percentile £763 £750 £788
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.58
25th Percentile - - £47.44
Median hourly rate £26.32 - £61.25
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -37.50% -17.95% -10.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,855 4,078 5,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.49% 23.18% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,996 3,041 3,744
10th Percentile £385 £373 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 33 47
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £27.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £47.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -24.60% +14.55%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £82.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Central London -19 85 £570 +11.76% 126
West London +7 6 £652 +44.89% 12
East London -2 4 £438 -2.78% 7
South London -3 1 £675 +42.11% 4
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.93%) IIS
2 17 (3.99%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.76%) Apache
4 14 (3.29%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.64%) Confluence
7 6 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (1.17%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.94%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.23%) Appian
10 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.23%) Camunda
10 1 (0.23%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 62 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.23%) SPSS
3 1 (0.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 24 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.64%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (1.64%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (1.17%) Endur
3 5 (1.17%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.94%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Alphatax
6 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.47%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.47%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.23%) FastStats
7 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Maximo
7 1 (0.23%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 181 (42.49%) Azure
2 72 (16.90%) Power Platform
3 46 (10.80%) AWS
4 34 (7.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 31 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.87%) Entra ID
7 24 (5.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 24 (5.63%) Power Automate
8 23 (5.40%) GitHub
9 22 (5.16%) PowerApps
10 21 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (4.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (3.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (3.52%) Serverless
14 14 (3.29%) SaaS
15 13 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 13 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (2.82%) Azure AKS
17 10 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.46%) DNS
2 12 (2.82%) Firewall
2 12 (2.82%) Internet
3 6 (1.41%) VPN
4 5 (1.17%) DHCP
5 4 (0.94%) Network Security
5 4 (0.94%) SSH
5 4 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.94%) VoIP
6 3 (0.70%) LAN
6 3 (0.70%) Skype
6 3 (0.70%) WAN
7 2 (0.47%) HTTP
7 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.47%) NAS
7 2 (0.47%) SAN
7 2 (0.47%) VLAN
8 1 (0.23%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.23%) Intranet
8 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.91%) Power BI
2 52 (12.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 38 (8.92%) Oracle Database
3 38 (8.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 31 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 31 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (5.87%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 22 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (4.69%) MongoDB
9 15 (3.52%) Redis
10 13 (3.05%) Big Data
11 11 (2.58%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (2.58%) MySQL
11 11 (2.58%) Tableau
12 9 (2.11%) DB2
12 9 (2.11%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.64%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 29 (6.81%) JIRA
2 26 (6.10%) Git
3 13 (3.05%) GitLab
4 12 (2.82%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (1.64%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.41%) ERwin
7 6 (1.41%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.17%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.94%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.94%) QARun
9 4 (0.94%) RStudio
9 4 (0.94%) WinRunner
10 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.47%) Selenium
11 2 (0.47%) Subversion
11 2 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 172 (40.38%) Finance
2 119 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 85 (19.95%) Banking
4 52 (12.21%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.34%) Front Office
6 24 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.35%) Back Office
9 9 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.88%) Legal
11 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.94%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.70%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.70%) Law
14 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.70%) Retail
15 2 (0.47%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 190 (44.60%) Developer
2 62 (14.55%) C# Developer
3 52 (12.21%) Analyst
4 49 (11.50%) Senior
5 47 (11.03%) Architect
6 28 (6.57%) .NET Developer
6 28 (6.57%) Data Engineer
6 28 (6.57%) Senior Developer
7 23 (5.40%) Data Analyst
8 20 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (3.99%) SQL Developer
10 16 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.76%) C# .NET Developer
10 16 (3.76%) DBA
11 15 (3.52%) C# WPF Developer
11 15 (3.52%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.52%) WPF Developer
12 14 (3.29%) Angular Developer
12 14 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.05%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (32.39%) .NET
2 66 (15.49%) .NET Framework
3 40 (9.39%) HTML
4 39 (9.15%) REST
5 38 (8.92%) CSS
6 33 (7.75%) .NET Core
6 33 (7.75%) AngularJS
6 33 (7.75%) React
7 32 (7.51%) XML
8 29 (6.81%) WCF
9 28 (6.57%) Entity Framework
10 27 (6.34%) ASP.NET
10 27 (6.34%) RESTful
11 24 (5.63%) JSON
12 23 (5.40%) ASP.NET Web API
12 23 (5.40%) Kafka
13 21 (4.93%) WPF
14 15 (3.52%) Web Services
14 15 (3.52%) WinForms
15 14 (3.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.63%) Derivative
2 17 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (3.29%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.58%) Clustering
5 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 8 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.88%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.41%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.17%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.08%) Windows
2 48 (11.27%) Linux
3 32 (7.51%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.35%) Unix
5 9 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.17%) Android
6 5 (1.17%) VMS
6 5 (1.17%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Solaris
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (24.88%) Agile
2 80 (18.78%) DevOps
2 80 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (14.08%) Data Analysis
4 58 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (13.38%) ETL
6 55 (12.91%) Migration
7 47 (11.03%) Test Automation
8 44 (10.33%) CI/CD
8 44 (10.33%) Data Modelling
9 41 (9.62%) Microservices
10 37 (8.69%) Unit Testing
11 36 (8.45%) Software Engineering
12 33 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
12 33 (7.75%) Performance Tuning
13 32 (7.51%) CRM
13 32 (7.51%) Scrum
14 29 (6.81%) Risk Management
15 28 (6.57%) Data Migration
15 28 (6.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 228 (53.52%) SQL
2 184 (43.19%) C#
3 99 (23.24%) Python
4 62 (14.55%) JavaScript
5 48 (11.27%) T-SQL
6 42 (9.86%) Java
7 36 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 34 (7.98%) VBA
9 32 (7.51%) TypeScript
10 31 (7.28%) PL/SQL
11 24 (5.63%) VB
12 15 (3.52%) Bash
13 13 (3.05%) Scala
14 7 (1.64%) R
15 6 (1.41%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.94%) Bicep
16 4 (0.94%) Perl
17 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.47%) C++
18 2 (0.47%) sed
Qualifications
1 54 (12.68%) Degree
2 38 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.94%) MCPD
8 4 (0.94%) MCSD
9 3 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.70%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.47%) VCAP
10 2 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.23%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ISEB
11 1 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.74%) QA
2 33 (7.75%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.05%) GDPR
4 11 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.88%) MiFID
6 7 (1.64%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.41%) EMIR
8 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.70%) GAAP
10 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.47%) PMO
10 2 (0.47%) WCAG
11 1 (0.23%) HL7
11 1 (0.23%) IFRS
11 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 19 (4.46%) Docker
3 18 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.94%) vSphere
7 3 (0.70%) KVM
7 3 (0.70%) vCloud
7 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.47%) GPFS
8 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.47%) NFS
8 2 (0.47%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.40%) Terraform
3 9 (2.11%) Ansible
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.94%) Control-M
5 4 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (0.94%) SCCM
6 3 (0.70%) Kibana
6 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.47%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.47%) WMI
8 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.23%) Netcool
8 1 (0.23%) SCOM
8 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 132 (30.99%) Oracle
2 117 (27.46%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.57%) Databricks
4 25 (5.87%) VMware
5 18 (4.23%) Citrix
6 16 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.29%) Cisco
8 12 (2.82%) IBM
9 11 (2.58%) Informatica
10 10 (2.35%) SAP
11 9 (2.11%) Sybase
12 8 (1.88%) Google
12 8 (1.88%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.88%) UiPath
13 7 (1.64%) Talend
14 6 (1.41%) OpenText
15 5 (1.17%) Cognos
15 5 (1.17%) EMC
15 5 (1.17%) OpenLink
15 5 (1.17%) Red Hat