SQL Server Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 100 51
Rank change year-on-year -27 -49 0
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 490 380 678
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.42% 2.86% 4.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.78% 13.52% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 280 505
10th Percentile £375 £375 £343
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £28.85 - -
25th Percentile £43.25 - -
Median hourly rate £58.75 - £100.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £21.27 £56.25
% change year-on-year +15.19% -62.19% +7.14%

All Database & BI 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 3,555 2,810 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.58% 21.14% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 1,948 2,570
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £808 £850
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 22
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -13.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £62.21
90th Percentile £68.75 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 October 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
Central London -7 76 £550 +11.00% 70
South London -4 13 £550 -18.52% 4
East London +4 2 £558 +3.24% 4
West London -16 1 £725 -3.33% 6
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (5.71%) IIS
2 26 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.88%) Confluence
4 18 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (2.86%) Apache Spark
6 13 (2.65%) Camunda
7 10 (2.04%) Apache
8 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 5 (1.02%) Apache Solr
10 5 (1.02%) Appian
11 3 (0.61%) CMS
11 3 (0.61%) Traefik
12 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (1.43%) Aladdin
3 7 (1.43%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (1.43%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.82%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.20%) Endur
8 1 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.20%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 210 (42.86%) Azure
2 113 (23.06%) AWS
3 83 (16.94%) Power Platform
4 60 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (11.22%) GitHub
6 36 (7.35%) Entra ID
7 28 (5.71%) Serverless
8 27 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (5.51%) Snowflake
9 24 (4.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (4.49%) GCP
10 22 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.67%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.47%) Amazon S3
13 17 (3.47%) dbt
14 16 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (3.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.51%) DNS
2 21 (4.29%) DHCP
3 15 (3.06%) Firewall
4 11 (2.24%) Internet
5 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.84%) VLAN
5 9 (1.84%) VPN
5 9 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.22%) HTTPS
6 6 (1.22%) SAN
6 6 (1.22%) SSH
7 5 (1.02%) Network Security
7 5 (1.02%) SSL
8 4 (0.82%) LAN
8 4 (0.82%) WAN
9 3 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.41%) Intranet
10 2 (0.41%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.20%) DMZ
11 1 (0.20%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (16.53%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (14.08%) Power BI
3 64 (13.06%) Relational Database
4 51 (10.41%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (9.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 40 (8.16%) MongoDB
6 40 (8.16%) Oracle Database
7 37 (7.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 34 (6.94%) MySQL
9 32 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (4.29%) Metadata
10 21 (4.29%) Redis
11 20 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (3.88%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.27%) Data Lake
14 15 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 14 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.84%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
18 7 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 58 (11.84%) Git
2 46 (9.39%) JIRA
3 22 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.88%) Visual Studio
5 17 (3.47%) GitLab
6 13 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 12 (2.45%) REST Assured
8 10 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.84%) Gradle
9 9 (1.84%) Maven
9 9 (1.84%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (1.63%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.43%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.43%) JUnit
11 7 (1.43%) Mockito
12 6 (1.22%) Selenium
12 6 (1.22%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.82%) Chocolatey
General
1 204 (41.63%) Finance
2 168 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 106 (21.63%) Banking
4 104 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (7.96%) Front Office
6 22 (4.49%) Investment Banking
6 22 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.45%) Back Office
9 12 (2.45%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.04%) Retail
11 7 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.22%) Legal
13 4 (0.82%) Billing
13 4 (0.82%) Marketing
13 4 (0.82%) Publishing
13 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 196 (40.00%) Developer
2 89 (18.16%) Senior
3 63 (12.86%) C# Developer
4 52 (10.61%) .NET Developer
5 41 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 39 (7.96%) Senior Developer
7 37 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 31 (6.33%) Architect
9 28 (5.71%) DBA
10 26 (5.31%) Software Engineer
11 25 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
11 25 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.49%) Applications Support
13 21 (4.29%) SQL Developer
14 20 (4.08%) Lead
15 19 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (3.88%) Senior .NET Developer
15 19 (3.88%) Senior C# Developer
16 17 (3.47%) Administrator
16 17 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (40.82%) .NET
2 94 (19.18%) REST
3 65 (13.27%) .NET Framework
4 53 (10.82%) React
5 52 (10.61%) Terraform
6 48 (9.80%) CSS
7 41 (8.37%) AngularJS
7 41 (8.37%) HTML
8 40 (8.16%) Kafka
9 39 (7.96%) .NET Core
10 38 (7.76%) ASP.NET
11 32 (6.53%) RESTful
11 32 (6.53%) SOAP
12 31 (6.33%) Web Services
13 27 (5.51%) Spring Boot
14 26 (5.31%) OAuth
15 24 (4.90%) Spring
15 24 (4.90%) WinForms
16 22 (4.49%) JSON
16 22 (4.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.92%) Data Centre
3 29 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 20 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (3.88%) Replication
7 16 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.86%) Derivative
9 13 (2.65%) Clustering
10 11 (2.24%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.04%) Equities
11 10 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (2.04%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.84%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.63%) Reinsurance
14 7 (1.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 136 (27.76%) Windows
2 76 (15.51%) Windows Server
3 45 (9.18%) Linux
4 6 (1.22%) Unix
5 5 (1.02%) VMS
6 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) SUSE
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (31.22%) CI/CD
2 136 (27.76%) Agile
3 134 (27.35%) DevOps
4 106 (21.63%) Migration
5 93 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (15.92%) AI
7 75 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 75 (15.31%) ETL
8 74 (15.10%) Business Intelligence
8 74 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (14.69%) Data Modelling
10 71 (14.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (13.27%) Software Engineering
12 63 (12.86%) Microservices
13 58 (11.84%) Test Automation
14 56 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
14 56 (11.43%) Validation
15 54 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
16 49 (10.00%) Analytics
17 47 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 311 (63.47%) SQL
2 199 (40.61%) C#
3 105 (21.43%) Python
4 97 (19.80%) T-SQL
5 93 (18.98%) JavaScript
6 77 (15.71%) PowerShell
7 56 (11.43%) Java
8 49 (10.00%) PL/SQL
9 46 (9.39%) TypeScript
10 24 (4.90%) Bash
11 11 (2.24%) VBA
12 10 (2.04%) VB
13 9 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.22%) Bicep
15 6 (1.22%) PHP
15 6 (1.22%) XPath
16 5 (1.02%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.61%) Groovy
17 3 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 69 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.22%) Degree
3 54 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.82%) PhD
11 4 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.20%) ISEB
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.63%) QA
2 53 (10.82%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.65%) SLA
4 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.84%) GDPR
6 4 (0.82%) WCAG
7 3 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.61%) Basel III
8 2 (0.41%) COREP
8 2 (0.41%) FINREP
8 2 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) ITGC
8 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (9.39%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.76%) Docker
3 20 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.65%) Ansible
3 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
4 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.63%) Grafana
5 8 (1.63%) SCOM
6 6 (1.22%) Istio
6 6 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.02%) SCCM
8 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.61%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.20%) Argo
11 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.20%) Packer
11 1 (0.20%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 143 (29.18%) Oracle
2 133 (27.14%) Microsoft
3 48 (9.80%) Databricks
4 42 (8.57%) VMware
5 29 (5.92%) Citrix
6 18 (3.67%) Informatica
7 17 (3.47%) CyberArk
8 16 (3.27%) IBM
8 16 (3.27%) ServiceNow
9 15 (3.06%) Dynatrace
10 13 (2.65%) SAP
11 10 (2.04%) BMC
11 10 (2.04%) Cisco
11 10 (2.04%) Remedy
12 9 (1.84%) BeyondTrust
12 9 (1.84%) UiPath
12 9 (1.84%) WALLIX
13 8 (1.63%) OutSystems
13 8 (1.63%) Talend
14 7 (1.43%) Commvault