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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 85 43
Rank change year-on-year -31 -42 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 476 426 872
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.45% 3.21% 4.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.88% 14.93% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 318 604
10th Percentile £363 £377 £363
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £661
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -2.86%
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 £27.44 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -37.50% -17.95%

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 3,429 2,854 4,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.65% 21.48% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 1,995 3,041
10th Percentile £363 £385 £373
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 33
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -11.58% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.56 £61.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.25 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.69% -34.29%

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 6 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 6 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 -28 65 £575 +0.88% 24
West London -23 4 £550 -15.64% 3
East London -1 3 £630 +44.00% 2
South London -5 1 £600 -11.11% 2
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.46%) IIS
3 15 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.73%) Apache
5 12 (2.52%) Camunda
6 11 (2.31%) Appian
7 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (1.68%) Confluence
9 7 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.21%) CMS
11 1 (0.21%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.21%) Mule
11 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.26%) OpenText MBPM
2 6 (1.26%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.84%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.63%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.42%) 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 (45.17%) Azure
2 113 (23.74%) AWS
3 72 (15.13%) Power Platform
4 65 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (9.66%) GitHub
6 45 (9.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (5.67%) Serverless
8 26 (5.46%) Power Automate
9 23 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 23 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (4.83%) Snowflake
10 22 (4.62%) GCP
11 20 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.20%) SaaS
12 19 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (3.78%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (3.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.41%) DNS
2 16 (3.36%) DHCP
3 13 (2.73%) Internet
4 9 (1.89%) Firewall
4 9 (1.89%) VPN
5 8 (1.68%) SAN
6 6 (1.26%) HTTPS
6 6 (1.26%) SSH
6 6 (1.26%) VLAN
6 6 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.42%) FTP
8 2 (0.42%) Intranet
8 2 (0.42%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.21%) DMZ
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) MQTT
9 1 (0.21%) Multicast
9 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (14.92%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 58 (12.18%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (10.92%) Power BI
5 45 (9.45%) Oracle Database
6 41 (8.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 32 (6.72%) MongoDB
8 26 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 23 (4.83%) Data Lake
10 23 (4.83%) NoSQL
11 16 (3.36%) Redis
11 16 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (2.52%) Delta Lake
12 12 (2.52%) MySQL
13 11 (2.31%) Big Data
13 11 (2.31%) Metadata
14 10 (2.10%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.89%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (8.40%) Git
2 24 (5.04%) JIRA
3 19 (3.99%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.78%) TeamCity
5 17 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (2.10%) GitLab
8 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.68%) MSTest
9 7 (1.47%) Chocolatey
9 7 (1.47%) ERwin
9 7 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (1.26%) Maven
10 6 (1.26%) Mocha
10 6 (1.26%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.05%) JUnit
11 5 (1.05%) Mockito
11 5 (1.05%) NUnit
11 5 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 193 (40.55%) Finance
2 136 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 103 (21.64%) Banking
4 87 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.35%) Front Office
6 21 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.99%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.26%) Back Office
11 6 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Legal
12 4 (0.84%) Retail
13 3 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.63%) Publishing
14 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.42%) Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (38.87%) Developer
2 82 (17.23%) C# Developer
3 68 (14.29%) Senior
4 64 (13.45%) Data Engineer
5 41 (8.61%) .NET Developer
6 31 (6.51%) Architect
6 31 (6.51%) Lead
7 29 (6.09%) DBA
8 27 (5.67%) SQL Developer
9 26 (5.46%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.83%) C# .NET Developer
11 22 (4.62%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 20 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (4.20%) SQL DBA
14 18 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (3.36%) Consultant
16 16 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (3.15%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (31.09%) .NET
2 71 (14.92%) REST
3 70 (14.71%) .NET Framework
4 48 (10.08%) React
5 43 (9.03%) CSS
6 37 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 37 (7.77%) RESTful
7 36 (7.56%) HTML
8 31 (6.51%) .NET Core
9 30 (6.30%) Kafka
10 27 (5.67%) ASP.NET
11 25 (5.25%) OAuth
12 24 (5.04%) Web Services
13 22 (4.62%) SOAP
13 22 (4.62%) XML
14 19 (3.99%) Spring Boot
15 17 (3.57%) Spring
15 17 (3.57%) WinForms
16 16 (3.36%) WPF
17 15 (3.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.19%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.57%) Derivative
5 17 (3.57%) Replication
6 14 (2.94%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.73%) Low-Code
8 11 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.31%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.89%) Equities
10 8 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.47%) Clustering
11 7 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 103 (21.64%) Windows
2 45 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 30 (6.30%) Linux
4 11 (2.31%) Unix
5 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (28.78%) DevOps
2 131 (27.52%) CI/CD
3 115 (24.16%) Agile
4 102 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (17.44%) ETL
6 77 (16.18%) Data Modelling
7 74 (15.55%) AI
7 74 (15.55%) Migration
8 73 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
9 67 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
10 65 (13.66%) Data Analysis
11 63 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
12 59 (12.39%) Analytics
13 58 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
14 48 (10.08%) Microservices
14 48 (10.08%) Software Engineering
14 48 (10.08%) Test Automation
15 46 (9.66%) Data Engineering
15 46 (9.66%) Data Integration
16 44 (9.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 297 (62.39%) SQL
2 174 (36.55%) C#
3 135 (28.36%) Python
4 105 (22.06%) T-SQL
5 62 (13.03%) JavaScript
6 57 (11.97%) PL/SQL
7 51 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.45%) Java
9 37 (7.77%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.31%) VB
10 11 (2.31%) VBA
11 8 (1.68%) Bash
11 8 (1.68%) Scala
12 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.05%) Bicep
13 5 (1.05%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.05%) XPath
14 3 (0.63%) Groovy
14 3 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 48 (10.08%) Degree
3 44 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.84%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.84%) MCITP
8 4 (0.84%) MCTS
8 4 (0.84%) PhD
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.42%) CCA
10 2 (0.42%) CISSP
10 2 (0.42%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (13.66%) QA
2 56 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.31%) SLA
4 6 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.26%) GDPR
5 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.42%) Basel III
6 2 (0.42%) COREP
6 2 (0.42%) FINREP
6 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.21%) EMIR
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (10.08%) Docker
2 29 (6.09%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.63%) GridGain
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) XenApp
7 2 (0.42%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.21%) NFS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.21%) RACF
Systems Management
1 68 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.82%) Terraform
3 9 (1.89%) SCCM
4 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.26%) Ansible
6 3 (0.63%) Grafana
6 3 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 145 (30.46%) Oracle
2 108 (22.69%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.82%) Citrix
4 38 (7.98%) Databricks
5 28 (5.88%) Informatica
6 18 (3.78%) VMware
7 16 (3.36%) SAP
8 13 (2.73%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.73%) Sybase
9 11 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.68%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.68%) OutSystems
11 7 (1.47%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.47%) Tenable
12 6 (1.26%) Google
12 6 (1.26%) IBM
12 6 (1.26%) UiPath
13 5 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
13 5 (1.05%) OpenText