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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 78 39
Rank change year-on-year -30 -39 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 488 406 855
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.30% 4.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.44% 15.00% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 303 596
10th Percentile £363 £376 £363
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
England median daily rate £492 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -4.00% +0.49% -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 £28.68 £26.32 £40.13
% change year-on-year +8.97% -34.40% -2.13%

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 3,379 2,706 3,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.91% 21.99% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 1,886 2,954
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £715
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 26 32 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £28.60 £25.63
Median hourly rate £47.25 £37.81 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.98% -21.24% -10.70%
75th Percentile £61.19 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £82.50 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.09%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -32 65 £575 +2.68% 32
East London -4 3 £630 +44.00% 4
West London -24 3 £463 -29.06% 7
South London -7 1 £600 -11.11% 1
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 35 (7.17%) SharePoint
2 21 (4.30%) IIS
3 13 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.46%) Appian
5 11 (2.25%) Apache
6 10 (2.05%) Camunda
7 9 (1.84%) Confluence
8 7 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (1.02%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Mule
11 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.05%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.61%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.41%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.41%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.41%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) Endur
6 1 (0.20%) Findur
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 229 (46.93%) Azure
2 107 (21.93%) AWS
3 94 (19.26%) Power Platform
4 72 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (13.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 53 (10.86%) GitHub
7 38 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (5.94%) Power Automate
9 26 (5.33%) Serverless
10 25 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (4.51%) GCP
13 19 (3.89%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.89%) Snowflake
14 18 (3.69%) SaaS
15 17 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (2.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.30%) DNS
2 16 (3.28%) DHCP
3 11 (2.25%) Firewall
3 11 (2.25%) Internet
4 9 (1.84%) VPN
5 8 (1.64%) SAN
6 6 (1.23%) VLAN
6 6 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.82%) NetScaler
7 4 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) FTP
9 2 (0.41%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.20%) DMZ
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.20%) MQTT
10 1 (0.20%) Multicast
10 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (14.75%) Power BI
2 66 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (13.32%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (11.89%) Relational Database
5 57 (11.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (8.81%) Oracle Database
7 38 (7.79%) Data Lake
8 31 (6.35%) MongoDB
9 28 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (4.92%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (3.89%) Delta Lake
13 16 (3.28%) Redis
14 15 (3.07%) Metadata
15 13 (2.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 12 (2.46%) BigQuery
16 12 (2.46%) MySQL
17 11 (2.25%) Tableau
18 10 (2.05%) Big Data
18 10 (2.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (8.20%) Git
2 29 (5.94%) JIRA
3 17 (3.48%) TeamCity
3 17 (3.48%) Visual Studio
4 15 (3.07%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (1.84%) GitLab
7 8 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.64%) MLflow
7 8 (1.64%) MSTest
8 7 (1.43%) Chocolatey
8 7 (1.43%) ERwin
8 7 (1.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (1.23%) Mocha
9 6 (1.23%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.02%) Maven
10 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.82%) JUnit
11 4 (0.82%) Mockito
11 4 (0.82%) NUnit
General
1 185 (37.91%) Finance
2 136 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 101 (20.70%) Banking
4 78 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (6.56%) Front Office
6 23 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.23%) Back Office
11 6 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.02%) Retail
13 4 (0.82%) Legal
13 4 (0.82%) Publishing
13 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.61%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.61%) Law
15 2 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 173 (35.45%) Developer
2 91 (18.65%) Senior
3 85 (17.42%) Data Engineer
4 76 (15.57%) C# Developer
5 37 (7.58%) .NET Developer
6 34 (6.97%) Architect
7 32 (6.56%) Lead
8 31 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
8 31 (6.35%) Senior Developer
9 28 (5.74%) DBA
10 21 (4.30%) C# .NET Developer
10 21 (4.30%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.10%) SQL DBA
11 20 (4.10%) SQL Developer
12 18 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.48%) Integration Engineer
14 16 (3.28%) Consultant
14 16 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.07%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (28.48%) .NET
2 65 (13.32%) REST
3 60 (12.30%) .NET Framework
4 43 (8.81%) CSS
4 43 (8.81%) React
5 40 (8.20%) HTML
5 40 (8.20%) RESTful
6 36 (7.38%) AngularJS
7 30 (6.15%) Kafka
8 29 (5.94%) .NET Core
8 29 (5.94%) OAuth
9 25 (5.12%) XML
10 23 (4.71%) ASP.NET
10 23 (4.71%) Web Services
11 18 (3.69%) SOAP
12 16 (3.28%) Spring Boot
13 15 (3.07%) WPF
14 14 (2.87%) Middleware
14 14 (2.87%) Spring
15 13 (2.66%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.97%) Cloud Native
1 34 (6.97%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.48%) Replication
4 16 (3.28%) Low-Code
5 15 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.07%) Derivative
6 14 (2.87%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.25%) Reinsurance
8 10 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.43%) Clustering
9 7 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.23%) Equities
10 6 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.23%) NHS
11 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 101 (20.70%) Windows
2 44 (9.02%) Windows Server
3 36 (7.38%) Linux
4 11 (2.25%) Unix
5 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.41%) VMS
8 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (28.48%) DevOps
2 136 (27.87%) CI/CD
3 108 (22.13%) Agile
4 105 (21.52%) ETL
5 96 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (19.26%) Data Modelling
7 93 (19.06%) Business Intelligence
8 77 (15.78%) AI
9 73 (14.96%) Analytics
10 71 (14.55%) Migration
11 66 (13.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 63 (12.91%) Data Pipeline
13 61 (12.50%) Data Analysis
14 59 (12.09%) Data Engineering
15 57 (11.68%) Performance Tuning
15 57 (11.68%) Test Automation
16 52 (10.66%) Data Integration
17 45 (9.22%) Change Management
17 45 (9.22%) Microservices
18 44 (9.02%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 308 (63.11%) SQL
2 162 (33.20%) C#
3 140 (28.69%) Python
4 99 (20.29%) T-SQL
5 59 (12.09%) JavaScript
5 59 (12.09%) PL/SQL
6 51 (10.45%) Java
7 47 (9.63%) PowerShell
8 31 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (2.46%) VB
10 10 (2.05%) VBA
11 8 (1.64%) Bicep
12 7 (1.43%) Bash
13 6 (1.23%) Scala
13 6 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.02%) XPath
15 3 (0.61%) R
15 3 (0.61%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 65 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 51 (10.45%) Degree
3 49 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) CCA
9 4 (0.82%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.82%) MCITP
9 4 (0.82%) MCTS
10 3 (0.61%) PhD
11 2 (0.41%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.41%) PMP
11 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.93%) Data Quality
2 61 (12.50%) QA
3 10 (2.05%) SLA
4 9 (1.84%) GDPR
5 7 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.82%) Basel III
7 3 (0.61%) IFRS
7 3 (0.61%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.61%) WCAG
8 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.41%) EMIR
8 2 (0.41%) GAAP
8 2 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.41%) MiFID
8 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (10.66%) Docker
2 32 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.82%) XenApp
6 4 (0.82%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.61%) GridGain
7 3 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 70 (14.34%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.61%) Terraform
3 11 (2.25%) SCCM
4 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.23%) Ansible
6 4 (0.82%) SCVMM
7 3 (0.61%) Control-M
7 3 (0.61%) Grafana
7 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.41%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 150 (30.74%) Oracle
2 122 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 51 (10.45%) Databricks
4 41 (8.40%) Citrix
5 30 (6.15%) Informatica
6 18 (3.69%) SAP
6 18 (3.69%) VMware
7 13 (2.66%) Sybase
8 12 (2.46%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.25%) IBM
10 10 (2.05%) OpenAI
10 10 (2.05%) UiPath
11 8 (1.64%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.64%) OutSystems
12 7 (1.43%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.43%) Google
12 7 (1.43%) Tenable
13 6 (1.23%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.82%) Solace