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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 85 41
Rank change year-on-year -34 -44 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 483 435 875
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.44% 3.20% 5.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.80% 14.97% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 324 611
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £414 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £653
90th Percentile £738 £771 £750
England median daily rate £490 £504 £511
% change year-on-year -2.73% -1.47% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.32 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% - -
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.88 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.52% -37.50% -12.09%

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 3,499 2,906 4,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.69% 21.35% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,356 2,034 3,029
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £448 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 28
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £34.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60.12 £61.25 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £38.38 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.87% -11.69% -33.04%

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 13 July 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
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 13 July 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 -21 68 £575 +4.55% 26
West London -17 4 £550 -15.64% 12
East London -1 3 £630 +26.63% 2
South London -15 1 £600 -11.11% 4
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 34 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.38%) IIS
3 14 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.69%) Apache
5 12 (2.48%) Camunda
6 10 (2.07%) Appian
6 10 (2.07%) Confluence
7 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.21%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.24%) OpenText MBPM
2 6 (1.24%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.62%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Endur
6 1 (0.21%) Findur
6 1 (0.21%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 215 (44.51%) Azure
2 112 (23.19%) AWS
3 69 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 66 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (10.14%) GitHub
6 41 (8.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (5.59%) Serverless
8 25 (5.18%) Power Automate
9 22 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.55%) SaaS
9 22 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 21 (4.35%) GCP
11 20 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (3.73%) Amazon S3
13 17 (3.52%) Datadog
13 17 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (3.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.55%) DNS
2 17 (3.52%) DHCP
3 12 (2.48%) Firewall
3 12 (2.48%) Internet
4 10 (2.07%) VPN
5 9 (1.86%) SAN
6 7 (1.45%) VLAN
6 7 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.24%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.24%) SSH
8 4 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.41%) FTP
9 2 (0.41%) Intranet
9 2 (0.41%) WinSCP
10 1 (0.21%) DMZ
10 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.21%) MQTT
10 1 (0.21%) Multicast
10 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 58 (12.01%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (10.14%) Power BI
5 44 (9.11%) Oracle Database
6 41 (8.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 31 (6.42%) MongoDB
8 28 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (5.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 22 (4.55%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.14%) Data Lake
12 16 (3.31%) Redis
12 16 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (2.48%) MySQL
14 11 (2.28%) Big Data
14 11 (2.28%) Metadata
15 10 (2.07%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.86%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.86%) Star Schema
16 9 (1.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (8.90%) Git
2 26 (5.38%) JIRA
3 21 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.73%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (2.07%) GitLab
7 9 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 8 (1.66%) Chocolatey
8 8 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.66%) MSTest
9 6 (1.24%) ERwin
9 6 (1.24%) Maven
9 6 (1.24%) Mocha
9 6 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.24%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.04%) JUnit
10 5 (1.04%) Mockito
10 5 (1.04%) NUnit
General
1 199 (41.20%) Finance
2 143 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 108 (22.36%) Banking
4 93 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.25%) Front Office
6 22 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.48%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.24%) Back Office
10 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Legal
11 4 (0.83%) Retail
12 3 (0.62%) Law
12 3 (0.62%) Publishing
13 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
14 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 187 (38.72%) Developer
2 82 (16.98%) C# Developer
3 69 (14.29%) Senior
4 61 (12.63%) Data Engineer
5 43 (8.90%) .NET Developer
6 32 (6.63%) Lead
7 31 (6.42%) Architect
8 29 (6.00%) DBA
9 27 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.59%) SQL Developer
10 24 (4.97%) C# .NET Developer
10 24 (4.97%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 21 (4.35%) SQL DBA
13 19 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.31%) Consultant
16 15 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
16 15 (3.11%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (31.47%) .NET
2 73 (15.11%) REST
3 71 (14.70%) .NET Framework
4 50 (10.35%) React
5 43 (8.90%) CSS
6 37 (7.66%) AngularJS
6 37 (7.66%) HTML
6 37 (7.66%) RESTful
7 34 (7.04%) .NET Core
8 29 (6.00%) ASP.NET
8 29 (6.00%) Kafka
9 24 (4.97%) Web Services
10 23 (4.76%) OAuth
10 23 (4.76%) XML
11 22 (4.55%) SOAP
12 19 (3.93%) Spring Boot
13 18 (3.73%) WinForms
14 17 (3.52%) JSON
14 17 (3.52%) Spring
15 16 (3.31%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.93%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.73%) Replication
6 17 (3.52%) Derivative
7 14 (2.90%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.48%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.28%) Reinsurance
10 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.86%) Equities
12 8 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.66%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.45%) Clustering
13 7 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.45%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.24%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 108 (22.36%) Windows
2 50 (10.35%) Windows Server
3 33 (6.83%) Linux
4 11 (2.28%) Unix
5 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.62%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (28.36%) DevOps
2 128 (26.50%) CI/CD
3 117 (24.22%) Agile
4 106 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (16.56%) ETL
6 76 (15.73%) Migration
7 75 (15.53%) AI
7 75 (15.53%) Data Modelling
8 70 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 65 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
11 63 (13.04%) Data Analysis
12 55 (11.39%) Analytics
12 55 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
13 51 (10.56%) Microservices
14 50 (10.35%) Software Engineering
15 46 (9.52%) Data Integration
15 46 (9.52%) Test Automation
16 43 (8.90%) Validation
17 42 (8.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 299 (61.90%) SQL
2 178 (36.85%) C#
3 129 (26.71%) Python
4 106 (21.95%) T-SQL
5 63 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 58 (12.01%) PL/SQL
7 54 (11.18%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.32%) Java
9 39 (8.07%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.28%) Bash
10 11 (2.28%) VBA
11 10 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (2.07%) VB
12 7 (1.45%) Scala
13 6 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.24%) VB.NET
13 6 (1.24%) XPath
14 4 (0.83%) Bicep
15 3 (0.62%) Groovy
15 3 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.14%) Degree
3 45 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.83%) MCITP
9 4 (0.83%) MCTS
9 4 (0.83%) PhD
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CCA
12 1 (0.21%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.25%) QA
2 53 (10.97%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.69%) SLA
4 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.04%) GDPR
6 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.41%) Basel III
7 2 (0.41%) COREP
7 2 (0.41%) FINREP
7 2 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (9.32%) Docker
2 33 (6.83%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.62%) GridGain
6 3 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.21%) NFS
8 1 (0.21%) RACF
8 1 (0.21%) XenApp
8 1 (0.21%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 40 (8.28%) Terraform
3 9 (1.86%) SCCM
4 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.24%) Ansible
6 3 (0.62%) Grafana
6 3 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 151 (31.26%) Oracle
2 116 (24.02%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.49%) Citrix
4 34 (7.04%) Databricks
5 27 (5.59%) Informatica
6 22 (4.55%) VMware
7 16 (3.31%) SAP
8 14 (2.90%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.69%) Sybase
10 11 (2.28%) CyberArk
10 11 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.66%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.66%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.66%) Tenable
12 7 (1.45%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.24%) Google
13 6 (1.24%) IBM
14 5 (1.04%) Cisco
14 5 (1.04%) OpenText
14 5 (1.04%) UiPath