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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 96 44
Rank change year-on-year -27 -52 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 494 396 783
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.46% 2.94% 4.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.62% 13.81% 20.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 295 561
10th Percentile £375 £375 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +5.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £638
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £22.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.32 £100.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.78% -73.68% +80.18%
75th Percentile £45.25 - -
90th Percentile £50.35 - -
England median hourly rate £50.02 £23.80 £48.03
% change year-on-year +110.21% -50.46% +6.73%

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 3,627 2,867 3,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.08% 21.27% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,452 2,004 2,780
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 26
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.53 £26.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £60.75 £84.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%

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 24 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server in London

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 24 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 -13 77 £575 +4.55% 20
South London +5 12 £550 -18.52% 5
East London +4 2 £565 +6.60% 4
West London -20 1 £725 +11.20% 8
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 37 (7.49%) SharePoint
2 29 (5.87%) IIS
3 15 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.83%) Camunda
5 12 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 12 (2.43%) Confluence
6 10 (2.02%) Apache
6 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (1.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (1.21%) Appian
9 5 (1.01%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.40%) CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.20%) HCL Domino
11 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.42%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (1.42%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.81%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.40%) Endur
6 2 (0.40%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.20%) Findur
7 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.20%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 206 (41.70%) Azure
2 106 (21.46%) AWS
3 80 (16.19%) Power Platform
4 55 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (9.31%) GitHub
6 35 (7.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (6.07%) Entra ID
8 29 (5.87%) Serverless
9 26 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 24 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (4.66%) Power Automate
11 23 (4.66%) Snowflake
12 21 (4.25%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (3.64%) SaaS
14 17 (3.44%) Azure AKS
14 17 (3.44%) PowerApps
15 16 (3.24%) dbt
15 16 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.47%) DNS
2 22 (4.45%) DHCP
3 17 (3.44%) Firewall
4 13 (2.63%) Internet
5 12 (2.43%) VPN
6 11 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (2.02%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.82%) SAN
8 9 (1.82%) VLAN
9 6 (1.21%) HTTPS
9 6 (1.21%) SSH
10 4 (0.81%) LAN
10 4 (0.81%) Network Security
10 4 (0.81%) WAN
11 3 (0.61%) SSL
12 2 (0.40%) Intranet
12 2 (0.40%) WinSCP
13 1 (0.20%) MQTT
13 1 (0.20%) Multicast
13 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
1 63 (12.75%) Power BI
1 63 (12.75%) Relational Database
2 54 (10.93%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (8.10%) Oracle Database
3 40 (8.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (7.89%) MongoDB
5 33 (6.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (6.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (4.66%) Redis
8 21 (4.25%) MySQL
8 21 (4.25%) NoSQL
9 19 (3.85%) Data Lake
10 18 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 15 (3.04%) Metadata
12 13 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (2.63%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.62%) Big Data
14 8 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (10.53%) Git
2 28 (5.67%) JIRA
3 20 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 17 (3.44%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.63%) GitLab
7 12 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (1.62%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.42%) Chocolatey
10 7 (1.42%) Maven
11 6 (1.21%) MSTest
12 5 (1.01%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.01%) JUnit
12 5 (1.01%) Mockito
12 5 (1.01%) Selenium
12 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.81%) Gradle
13 4 (0.81%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (41.70%) Finance
2 160 (32.39%) Social Skills
3 112 (22.67%) Banking
4 104 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.11%) Front Office
6 25 (5.06%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.04%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.62%) Back Office
12 7 (1.42%) Retail
13 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Legal
14 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.61%) Law
15 3 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.61%) Marketing
15 3 (0.61%) Prime Brokerage
15 3 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (37.85%) Developer
2 84 (17.00%) Senior
3 76 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 52 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 44 (8.91%) Data Engineer
6 40 (8.10%) DBA
7 35 (7.09%) Senior Developer
8 32 (6.48%) Architect
9 29 (5.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (5.47%) Software Engineer
12 26 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 26 (5.26%) Lead
13 24 (4.86%) SQL DBA
14 22 (4.45%) SQL Developer
15 21 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (4.05%) Administrator
17 19 (3.85%) Consultant
17 19 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
18 18 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (35.43%) .NET
2 79 (15.99%) REST
3 69 (13.97%) .NET Framework
4 47 (9.51%) React
4 47 (9.51%) Terraform
5 41 (8.30%) AngularJS
6 39 (7.89%) CSS
7 37 (7.49%) ASP.NET
8 34 (6.88%) .NET Core
8 34 (6.88%) Kafka
9 31 (6.28%) HTML
10 30 (6.07%) RESTful
11 25 (5.06%) SOAP
12 24 (4.86%) Web Services
13 23 (4.66%) WinForms
14 21 (4.25%) WPF
15 19 (3.85%) XML
16 18 (3.64%) JSON
16 18 (3.64%) OAuth
16 18 (3.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.64%) Replication
5 17 (3.44%) Derivative
6 16 (3.24%) Clustering
6 16 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.23%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.82%) Equities
10 8 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.62%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.42%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 136 (27.53%) Windows
2 64 (12.96%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.70%) Linux
4 9 (1.82%) Unix
5 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.01%) VMS
6 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (28.14%) CI/CD
2 137 (27.73%) DevOps
3 121 (24.49%) Agile
4 96 (19.43%) Migration
5 95 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 85 (17.21%) ETL
7 82 (16.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 78 (15.79%) AI
9 73 (14.78%) Data Modelling
10 69 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
11 65 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
12 60 (12.15%) Software Engineering
13 54 (10.93%) Data Analysis
13 54 (10.93%) Microservices
13 54 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 51 (10.32%) Analytics
14 51 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (10.12%) Test Automation
15 50 (10.12%) Validation
16 45 (9.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 304 (61.54%) SQL
2 194 (39.27%) C#
3 105 (21.26%) Python
4 95 (19.23%) T-SQL
5 78 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 75 (15.18%) PowerShell
7 60 (12.15%) PL/SQL
8 47 (9.51%) Java
9 33 (6.68%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.64%) Bash
11 12 (2.43%) VBA
12 11 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (2.23%) VB
13 8 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.21%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.21%) XPath
15 4 (0.81%) Scala
16 3 (0.61%) C++
16 3 (0.61%) Groovy
16 3 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 79 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 46 (9.31%) Degree
4 22 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.81%) MCITP
11 4 (0.81%) MCTS
11 4 (0.81%) PhD
12 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.94%) QA
2 49 (9.92%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.04%) SLA
4 8 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.01%) GDPR
6 4 (0.81%) WCAG
7 3 (0.61%) Basel III
8 2 (0.40%) COREP
8 2 (0.40%) FINREP
8 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.09%) Docker
3 21 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.61%) GridGain
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.40%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (11.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.43%) Ansible
2 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (1.62%) SCCM
5 6 (1.21%) SCOM
6 5 (1.01%) Grafana
6 5 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.61%) Istio
7 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.40%) Packer
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Control-M
9 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 137 (27.73%) Oracle
2 121 (24.49%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.50%) VMware
4 36 (7.29%) Databricks
5 35 (7.09%) Citrix
6 20 (4.05%) Informatica
7 18 (3.64%) CyberArk
8 16 (3.24%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.83%) SAP
10 13 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 11 (2.23%) IBM
12 10 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
12 10 (2.02%) BMC
12 10 (2.02%) Cisco
12 10 (2.02%) Remedy
12 10 (2.02%) Sybase
13 9 (1.82%) WALLIX
14 8 (1.62%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.62%) OutSystems
15 7 (1.42%) Tenable