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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 90 42
Rank change year-on-year -27 -48 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 485 426 825
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 3.10% 5.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.56% 14.47% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 321 586
10th Percentile £375 £378 £345
25th Percentile £415 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
England median daily rate £488 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -4.88% +0.49% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.32 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% -73.68% +90.48%
75th Percentile £19.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £23.80 £48.56
% change year-on-year +99.79% -51.00% +5.57%

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 3,576 2,944 3,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.45% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 2,072 2,846
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £437 £438 £463
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 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.55 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £34.65 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.55% -7.60% -31.82%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -20 74 £575 +4.55% 41
South London -8 4 £700 +3.70% 8
West London -20 4 £550 -15.64% 3
East London -1 2 £565 +6.60% 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 40 (8.25%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.77%) IIS
3 15 (3.09%) Confluence
4 13 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.68%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.47%) Camunda
6 11 (2.27%) Apache
7 10 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (1.44%) Appian
8 7 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.62%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.41%) CMS
11 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
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%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.44%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (1.44%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.82%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.82%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.41%) Endur
5 2 (0.41%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Findur
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 211 (43.51%) Azure
2 99 (20.41%) AWS
3 79 (16.29%) Power Platform
4 60 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (9.48%) GitHub
6 39 (8.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (5.77%) Serverless
8 27 (5.57%) Entra ID
9 26 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (5.36%) Power Automate
10 25 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (4.74%) Snowflake
12 20 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (3.92%) PowerApps
13 19 (3.92%) SaaS
14 18 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (3.71%) Amazon S3
14 18 (3.71%) Datadog
15 17 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.77%) DNS
2 22 (4.54%) DHCP
3 18 (3.71%) Firewall
4 13 (2.68%) Internet
5 12 (2.47%) VPN
5 12 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.06%) SAN
7 9 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.86%) VLAN
8 6 (1.24%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.24%) SSH
9 4 (0.82%) LAN
9 4 (0.82%) Network Security
9 4 (0.82%) WAN
10 3 (0.62%) SSL
11 2 (0.41%) FTP
11 2 (0.41%) Intranet
11 2 (0.41%) WinSCP
12 1 (0.21%) MQTT
12 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.78%) Relational Database
2 61 (12.58%) Power BI
3 56 (11.55%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (11.55%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (8.45%) Oracle Database
4 41 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 35 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (6.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 29 (5.98%) MongoDB
8 21 (4.33%) Data Lake
9 20 (4.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 19 (3.92%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.09%) Redis
12 13 (2.68%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.06%) MySQL
14 9 (1.86%) Big Data
14 9 (1.86%) Metadata
15 8 (1.65%) Db2
15 8 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 46 (9.48%) Git
2 27 (5.57%) JIRA
3 20 (4.12%) TeamCity
4 18 (3.71%) Jenkins
5 16 (3.30%) Visual Studio
6 12 (2.47%) GitLab
6 12 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (1.86%) Chocolatey
8 8 (1.65%) MSTest
8 8 (1.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (1.44%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.44%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.44%) Maven
9 7 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.24%) JUnit
10 6 (1.24%) Mocha
10 6 (1.24%) Mockito
10 6 (1.24%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.03%) NUnit
11 5 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 206 (42.47%) Finance
2 145 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 114 (23.51%) Banking
4 103 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (8.25%) Front Office
6 25 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.51%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.89%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.44%) Back Office
10 7 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.03%) Retail
12 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.82%) Legal
14 3 (0.62%) Law
14 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.62%) Publishing
15 2 (0.41%) Marketing
15 2 (0.41%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 183 (37.73%) Developer
2 81 (16.70%) Senior
3 80 (16.49%) C# Developer
4 50 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 47 (9.69%) .NET Developer
6 34 (7.01%) DBA
6 34 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.19%) Lead
8 29 (5.98%) Architect
9 27 (5.57%) C# .NET Developer
9 27 (5.57%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (5.36%) SQL DBA
11 24 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 24 (4.95%) SQL Developer
12 22 (4.54%) Azure Engineer
13 19 (3.92%) Consultant
14 15 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.09%) Front Office Developer
14 15 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (32.37%) .NET
2 77 (15.88%) REST
3 66 (13.61%) .NET Framework
4 48 (9.90%) React
5 42 (8.66%) CSS
6 38 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 35 (7.22%) ASP.NET
7 35 (7.22%) HTML
8 33 (6.80%) RESTful
9 31 (6.39%) .NET Core
9 31 (6.39%) Kafka
10 24 (4.95%) SOAP
10 24 (4.95%) Web Services
11 22 (4.54%) XML
12 21 (4.33%) WinForms
13 19 (3.92%) WPF
14 18 (3.71%) OAuth
15 17 (3.51%) JSON
16 16 (3.30%) Spring Boot
17 13 (2.68%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.71%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.51%) Derivative
7 16 (3.30%) Clustering
7 16 (3.30%) Replication
8 14 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.68%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.68%) Fixed Income
10 11 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.06%) Equities
11 10 (2.06%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.86%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.24%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.24%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 128 (26.39%) Windows
2 57 (11.75%) Windows Server
3 37 (7.63%) Linux
4 9 (1.86%) Unix
5 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.62%) VMS
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (28.45%) DevOps
2 122 (25.15%) CI/CD
3 118 (24.33%) Agile
4 102 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (18.97%) Migration
6 78 (16.08%) ETL
7 76 (15.67%) AI
7 76 (15.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 73 (15.05%) Business Intelligence
9 68 (14.02%) Data Modelling
10 62 (12.78%) Performance Tuning
11 56 (11.55%) Data Analysis
12 55 (11.34%) Software Engineering
13 54 (11.13%) Data Pipeline
14 53 (10.93%) Analytics
15 52 (10.72%) Microservices
16 48 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (9.90%) Test Automation
17 40 (8.25%) Change Management
17 40 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 291 (60.00%) SQL
2 179 (36.91%) C#
3 104 (21.44%) Python
4 103 (21.24%) T-SQL
5 74 (15.26%) JavaScript
6 67 (13.81%) PowerShell
7 57 (11.75%) PL/SQL
8 43 (8.87%) Java
9 32 (6.60%) TypeScript
10 14 (2.89%) Bash
10 14 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (2.47%) VBA
12 11 (2.27%) VB
13 7 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.24%) Scala
14 6 (1.24%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.24%) XPath
15 4 (0.82%) Bicep
15 4 (0.82%) Groovy
16 2 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 63 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 50 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.07%) Degree
4 21 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.82%) MCITP
8 4 (0.82%) MCTS
8 4 (0.82%) PhD
9 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.41%) ISEB
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.41%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.41%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CCA
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.20%) QA
2 42 (8.66%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.30%) SLA
4 8 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.03%) GDPR
6 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.82%) WCAG
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
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 47 (9.69%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.22%) Docker
3 15 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.03%) 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 57 (11.75%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.63%) Terraform
3 13 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (2.06%) SCCM
5 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (1.44%) Ansible
7 5 (1.03%) SCOM
8 4 (0.82%) Grafana
8 4 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.21%) Istio
11 1 (0.21%) Packer
11 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.21%) Puppet
11 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 137 (28.25%) Oracle
2 122 (25.15%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.04%) Citrix
4 37 (7.63%) VMware
5 32 (6.60%) Databricks
6 18 (3.71%) Informatica
7 16 (3.30%) CyberArk
7 16 (3.30%) Dynatrace
8 15 (3.09%) SAP
9 12 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.47%) Sybase
10 10 (2.06%) Cisco
11 9 (1.86%) AppDynamics
11 9 (1.86%) IBM
11 9 (1.86%) Tenable
12 8 (1.65%) BeyondTrust
12 8 (1.65%) OutSystems
13 7 (1.44%) BMC
13 7 (1.44%) Remedy
13 7 (1.44%) WALLIX