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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 100 49
Rank change year-on-year -27 -51 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 469 391 720
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 2.93% 4.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.10% 13.71% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 290 525
10th Percentile £375 £375 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £645
90th Percentile £738 £764 £745
England median daily rate £488 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -0.45% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.45 - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £100.00
75th Percentile £45.25 - -
90th Percentile £50.35 - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £21.27 £56.25
% change year-on-year +123.51% -62.19% +14.00%

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 3,580 2,852 3,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.34% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,463 1,987 2,613
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £645 £678 £719
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £509 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £24.81 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -34.58%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -6 71 £550 +11.00% 61
South London 0 12 £550 -18.52% 5
East London +3 3 £615 +13.89%
West London -26 1 £725 -3.33% 9
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 30 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.97%) IIS
3 18 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.84%) Confluence
4 14 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.99%) Camunda
5 10 (2.13%) Apache
6 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.28%) Appian
8 5 (1.07%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.64%) CMS
9 3 (0.64%) Traefik
10 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 26 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.49%) OpenText MBPM
2 7 (1.49%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.85%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
7 1 (0.21%) Endur
7 1 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.21%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 196 (41.79%) Azure
2 108 (23.03%) AWS
3 80 (17.06%) Power Platform
4 53 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (10.87%) GitHub
6 30 (6.40%) Entra ID
7 28 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (5.76%) Snowflake
9 26 (5.54%) Serverless
10 24 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (4.48%) GCP
12 20 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (4.26%) Power Automate
13 19 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.62%) dbt
14 17 (3.62%) PowerApps
15 16 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (3.20%) Amazon S3
17 14 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.12%) DNS
2 21 (4.48%) DHCP
3 15 (3.20%) Firewall
4 13 (2.77%) Internet
5 9 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.71%) VLAN
6 8 (1.71%) VPN
7 6 (1.28%) HTTPS
7 6 (1.28%) SAN
7 6 (1.28%) SSH
8 4 (0.85%) LAN
8 4 (0.85%) Network Security
8 4 (0.85%) WAN
9 3 (0.64%) SSL
10 2 (0.43%) Intranet
10 2 (0.43%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.21%) MQTT
11 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.21%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (15.78%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (13.86%) Power BI
3 57 (12.15%) Relational Database
4 50 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (8.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 38 (8.10%) MongoDB
7 37 (7.89%) Oracle Database
8 36 (7.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (7.04%) MySQL
10 28 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (3.84%) NoSQL
12 17 (3.62%) Redis
13 16 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (3.41%) Data Lake
14 15 (3.20%) Metadata
14 15 (3.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 12 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.92%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
18 7 (1.49%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (11.73%) Git
2 42 (8.96%) JIRA
3 19 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 17 (3.62%) GitLab
4 17 (3.62%) Visual Studio
5 12 (2.56%) REST Assured
5 12 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 10 (2.13%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.71%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 7 (1.49%) Gradle
8 7 (1.49%) Maven
9 6 (1.28%) JUnit
9 6 (1.28%) Mockito
9 6 (1.28%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.07%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.07%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.07%) Selenium
10 5 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.85%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 197 (42.00%) Finance
2 157 (33.48%) Social Skills
3 102 (21.75%) Banking
4 96 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (8.53%) Front Office
6 21 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 17 (3.62%) Public Sector
8 14 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.13%) Back Office
10 10 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.13%) Retail
11 6 (1.28%) Legal
11 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.85%) Billing
12 4 (0.85%) Marketing
12 4 (0.85%) Publishing
12 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.64%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 188 (40.09%) Developer
2 85 (18.12%) Senior
3 63 (13.43%) C# Developer
4 47 (10.02%) .NET Developer
5 40 (8.53%) Data Engineer
5 40 (8.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 36 (7.68%) Senior Developer
7 31 (6.61%) Architect
8 27 (5.76%) DBA
9 25 (5.33%) Software Engineer
10 24 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (4.69%) C# .NET Developer
11 22 (4.69%) Lead
11 22 (4.69%) SQL Developer
12 18 (3.84%) Senior C# Developer
13 17 (3.62%) Administrator
13 17 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.62%) Senior .NET Developer
13 17 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (3.41%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (39.66%) .NET
2 78 (16.63%) REST
3 66 (14.07%) .NET Framework
4 53 (11.30%) React
5 49 (10.45%) CSS
6 42 (8.96%) HTML
7 40 (8.53%) Terraform
8 39 (8.32%) Kafka
9 38 (8.10%) AngularJS
10 36 (7.68%) .NET Core
11 34 (7.25%) ASP.NET
12 31 (6.61%) SOAP
13 28 (5.97%) RESTful
13 28 (5.97%) Web Services
14 25 (5.33%) WinForms
15 23 (4.90%) WPF
15 23 (4.90%) XML
16 22 (4.69%) OAuth
17 21 (4.48%) JSON
17 21 (4.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (5.33%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.62%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.41%) Replication
8 14 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.77%) Clustering
9 13 (2.77%) Derivative
10 10 (2.13%) Equities
10 10 (2.13%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.92%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.71%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.71%) Reinsurance
13 7 (1.49%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.49%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 132 (28.14%) Windows
2 68 (14.50%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.96%) Linux
4 6 (1.28%) Unix
5 5 (1.07%) VMS
6 4 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (28.78%) CI/CD
2 125 (26.65%) Agile
3 121 (25.80%) DevOps
4 97 (20.68%) Migration
5 87 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (15.99%) AI
7 74 (15.78%) ETL
8 72 (15.35%) Data Modelling
9 69 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 65 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 63 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (13.43%) Software Engineering
12 59 (12.58%) Microservices
13 55 (11.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 51 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
15 50 (10.66%) Test Automation
16 47 (10.02%) Data Analysis
16 47 (10.02%) Validation
17 45 (9.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 297 (63.33%) SQL
2 191 (40.72%) C#
3 105 (22.39%) Python
4 98 (20.90%) T-SQL
5 95 (20.26%) JavaScript
6 73 (15.57%) PowerShell
7 52 (11.09%) PL/SQL
8 50 (10.66%) Java
9 44 (9.38%) TypeScript
10 22 (4.69%) Bash
11 12 (2.56%) VBA
12 11 (2.35%) VB
13 9 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.28%) PHP
14 6 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 6 (1.28%) XPath
15 5 (1.07%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.64%) Groovy
16 3 (0.64%) Korn
16 3 (0.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 51 (10.87%) Degree
3 50 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.85%) PhD
11 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.21%) CISA
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) ISEB
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.15%) QA
2 47 (10.02%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.77%) SLA
4 9 (1.92%) GDPR
5 8 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.85%) WCAG
7 3 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.64%) Basel III
8 2 (0.43%) COREP
8 2 (0.43%) FINREP
8 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) ITGC
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.46%) Docker
3 20 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.43%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) RACF
7 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.56%) Ansible
3 11 (2.35%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.71%) SCOM
6 6 (1.28%) Istio
7 5 (1.07%) Grafana
7 5 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.07%) SCCM
8 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.64%) Puppet
9 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) Control-M
10 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.21%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.21%) Packer
10 1 (0.21%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 132 (28.14%) Oracle
2 120 (25.59%) Microsoft
3 47 (10.02%) Databricks
4 40 (8.53%) VMware
5 31 (6.61%) Citrix
6 17 (3.62%) CyberArk
6 17 (3.62%) Informatica
7 15 (3.20%) IBM
7 15 (3.20%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.13%) BeyondTrust
9 10 (2.13%) BMC
9 10 (2.13%) Cisco
9 10 (2.13%) Remedy
9 10 (2.13%) SAP
10 9 (1.92%) WALLIX
11 8 (1.71%) OutSystems
11 8 (1.71%) Talend
12 7 (1.49%) Commvault
13 6 (1.28%) Google