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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 392 755 944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.92% 4.64% 4.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.67% 20.24% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 554 713
10th Percentile £375 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -6.96% -0.86%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £688
90th Percentile £775 £738 £752
England median daily rate £498 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.88% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £100.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +36.36%
England median hourly rate £21.27 £43.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.53% -18.10% -4.55%

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 2,868 3,730 4,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.33% 22.90% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,679 3,018
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 38
10th Percentile £28.66 £25.70 £19.05
25th Percentile £34.09 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.63 £55.00 £71.99
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -33 61 £496 -9.91% 34
West London -8 4 £750 +59.57% 7
East London -2 3 £540 +27.06% 3
South London -10 1 £675 +56.98% 2
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 16 (4.08%) Confluence
1 16 (4.08%) IIS
2 13 (3.32%) Apache
2 13 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.02%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.77%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.51%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.51%) SAS
8 2 (0.51%) WildFly
9 1 (0.26%) Appian
9 1 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.26%) Luigi
9 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 51 (13.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.51%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.30%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 7 (1.79%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.53%) Endur
4 4 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.02%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.77%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.51%) Alphatax
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.51%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 166 (42.35%) Azure
2 62 (15.82%) Power Platform
3 59 (15.05%) AWS
4 31 (7.91%) GitHub
5 27 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (4.59%) Entra ID
9 16 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (3.83%) GCP
10 15 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (3.57%) PaaS
11 14 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 14 (3.57%) SaaS
12 13 (3.32%) PowerApps
13 12 (3.06%) Serverless
14 11 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (2.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.55%) Internet
2 8 (2.04%) Firewall
3 7 (1.79%) DNS
4 4 (1.02%) SSH
5 3 (0.77%) DHCP
5 3 (0.77%) VoIP
6 2 (0.51%) HTTP
6 2 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.51%) NAS
6 2 (0.51%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.51%) Skype
6 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) DECT
7 1 (0.26%) Intranet
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) SAN
7 1 (0.26%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.54%) Power BI
2 45 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 32 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (7.65%) MongoDB
5 28 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 28 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (6.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (6.63%) Oracle Database
7 21 (5.36%) Redis
8 15 (3.83%) MySQL
9 12 (3.06%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.81%) Big Data
10 11 (2.81%) Data Lake
11 10 (2.55%) Tableau
12 9 (2.30%) DB2
12 9 (2.30%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.04%) Power Query
14 7 (1.79%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 38 (9.69%) Git
2 36 (9.18%) JIRA
3 15 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.57%) GitLab
5 13 (3.32%) SpecFlow
6 12 (3.06%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.81%) TeamCity
8 10 (2.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.79%) webpack
10 6 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.53%) Selenium
10 6 (1.53%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.28%) ERwin
11 5 (1.28%) JUnit
11 5 (1.28%) Maven
12 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.02%) JMeter
12 4 (1.02%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (1.02%) RStudio
General
1 172 (43.88%) Finance
2 129 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 84 (21.43%) Banking
4 60 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.65%) Front Office
6 29 (7.40%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.55%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.30%) Legal
11 8 (2.04%) Back Office
12 7 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.77%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.77%) Law
13 3 (0.77%) Retail
14 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Digital Health
14 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 188 (47.96%) Developer
2 65 (16.58%) C# Developer
3 53 (13.52%) Senior
4 39 (9.95%) Senior Developer
5 38 (9.69%) Architect
6 37 (9.44%) Data Engineer
7 34 (8.67%) .NET Developer
8 27 (6.89%) Analyst
9 26 (6.63%) Angular Developer
10 21 (5.36%) SQL Developer
11 20 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
12 18 (4.59%) DBA
13 17 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (4.08%) Senior C# Developer
15 15 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (3.57%) Data Analyst
16 14 (3.57%) Lead
16 14 (3.57%) SQL DBA
17 13 (3.32%) Python Developer
17 13 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (33.16%) .NET
2 52 (13.27%) .NET Framework
3 49 (12.50%) HTML
4 43 (10.97%) CSS
5 40 (10.20%) AngularJS
6 39 (9.95%) REST
7 37 (9.44%) React
8 32 (8.16%) .NET Core
8 32 (8.16%) Entity Framework
9 31 (7.91%) RESTful
10 28 (7.14%) Kafka
11 26 (6.63%) XML
12 23 (5.87%) ASP.NET
13 21 (5.36%) NHibernate
14 17 (4.34%) JSON
15 16 (4.08%) Web Services
16 15 (3.83%) WPF
17 14 (3.57%) jQuery
18 13 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
18 13 (3.32%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.40%) Derivative
2 18 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.32%) Fixed Income
6 13 (3.32%) Reinsurance
7 11 (2.81%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.55%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.53%) Reference Data
12 5 (1.28%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (12.50%) Windows
2 39 (9.95%) Linux
3 18 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.30%) Unix
5 7 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.28%) Android
6 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.08%) Agile
2 89 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (17.35%) DevOps
3 68 (17.35%) Microservices
4 66 (16.84%) ETL
5 62 (15.82%) CI/CD
6 52 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (12.76%) Migration
8 49 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 43 (10.97%) Test Automation
10 42 (10.71%) Scrum
11 37 (9.44%) Data Modelling
11 37 (9.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 35 (8.93%) Clean Code
13 34 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (8.42%) Software Engineering
15 31 (7.91%) Data Integration
16 30 (7.65%) Analytics
16 30 (7.65%) Risk Management
17 29 (7.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 214 (54.59%) SQL
2 161 (41.07%) C#
3 96 (24.49%) Python
4 62 (15.82%) JavaScript
5 51 (13.01%) T-SQL
6 39 (9.95%) Java
7 30 (7.65%) PowerShell
8 28 (7.14%) PL/SQL
8 28 (7.14%) VBA
9 22 (5.61%) Bash
10 19 (4.85%) VB
11 17 (4.34%) TypeScript
12 11 (2.81%) Scala
13 7 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.53%) COBOL
15 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
16 4 (1.02%) Bicep
17 2 (0.51%) AWK
17 2 (0.51%) R
17 2 (0.51%) sed
Qualifications
1 50 (12.76%) Degree
2 35 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.77%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.51%) MCITP
10 2 (0.51%) MCPD
10 2 (0.51%) MCSD
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.26%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.20%) QA
2 37 (9.44%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.81%) SLA
5 9 (2.30%) MiFID
6 7 (1.79%) GDPR
7 6 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.28%) EMIR
8 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.77%) GAAP
10 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.51%) HL7
10 2 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.51%) PMO
11 1 (0.26%) IFRS
11 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.36%) Docker
3 13 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.30%) zsh
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.51%) GPFS
7 2 (0.51%) GridGain
7 2 (0.51%) KVM
7 2 (0.51%) NFS
7 2 (0.51%) vCloud
7 2 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.51%) vSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.32%) Terraform
3 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.53%) Control-M
4 6 (1.53%) SCCM
5 5 (1.28%) Grafana
5 5 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.77%) Ansible
7 3 (0.77%) Kibana
7 3 (0.77%) Puppet
7 3 (0.77%) SCOM
7 3 (0.77%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.51%) Ambari
8 2 (0.51%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.51%) WMI
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 114 (29.08%) Oracle
2 90 (22.96%) Microsoft
3 31 (7.91%) Databricks
4 19 (4.85%) VMware
5 15 (3.83%) SAP
6 14 (3.57%) Citrix
7 10 (2.55%) Informatica
8 8 (2.04%) Cisco
9 7 (1.79%) HP
9 7 (1.79%) IBM
9 7 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.79%) Talend
10 6 (1.53%) EMC
10 6 (1.53%) Google
10 6 (1.53%) OpenLink
10 6 (1.53%) OpenText
10 6 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.53%) Sybase
11 5 (1.28%) Palantir
11 5 (1.28%) UiPath