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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 77 42
Rank change year-on-year -29 -35 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 497 410 865
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 3.27% 4.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.60% 15.01% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 306 601
10th Percentile £363 £378 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £532
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.08% -7.48%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -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 £25.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.77% -35.85% -6.98%

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 3,403 2,732 4,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.87% 21.80% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,303 1,910 2,987
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £719
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 30 33
10th Percentile £17.94 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £29.07 £25.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £39.31 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -17.25% -13.64%
75th Percentile £61.19 £61.19 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.61% -14.53% -29.76%

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 21 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 21 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 -31 63 £575 +4.55% 19
West London -27 4 £550 -15.64% 3
East London -2 3 £630 +44.00% 2
South London -5 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 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.63%) IIS
3 14 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.62%) Appian
4 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (2.41%) Apache
5 12 (2.41%) Camunda
6 8 (1.61%) Confluence
6 8 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.20%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 25 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.21%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (1.01%) OpenText MBPM
3 5 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.80%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.40%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.40%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.40%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.20%) Endur
7 1 (0.20%) Findur
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.20%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 226 (45.47%) Azure
2 109 (21.93%) AWS
3 89 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 64 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (11.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 49 (9.86%) GitHub
7 35 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.63%) Power Automate
9 27 (5.43%) Serverless
10 24 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (4.43%) GCP
12 21 (4.23%) Snowflake
13 20 (4.02%) SaaS
14 19 (3.82%) Amazon S3
15 18 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (3.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) DNS
2 16 (3.22%) DHCP
3 11 (2.21%) Internet
4 10 (2.01%) Firewall
5 9 (1.81%) VPN
6 8 (1.61%) SAN
7 6 (1.21%) VLAN
7 6 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.01%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.80%) NetScaler
9 4 (0.80%) SSH
9 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.40%) FTP
11 1 (0.20%) DMZ
11 1 (0.20%) Intranet
11 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.20%) MQTT
11 1 (0.20%) Multicast
11 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
1 69 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
1 69 (13.88%) Power BI
2 60 (12.07%) Relational Database
3 54 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (9.05%) Oracle Database
5 36 (7.24%) Data Lake
6 34 (6.84%) MongoDB
7 31 (6.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 25 (5.03%) NoSQL
9 22 (4.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (3.22%) Delta Lake
10 16 (3.22%) Redis
11 15 (3.02%) Metadata
11 15 (3.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (2.41%) MySQL
13 11 (2.21%) Big Data
13 11 (2.21%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.21%) Tableau
14 10 (2.01%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 39 (7.85%) Git
2 28 (5.63%) JIRA
3 18 (3.62%) Visual Studio
4 17 (3.42%) TeamCity
5 15 (3.02%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (1.81%) GitLab
8 8 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.61%) MSTest
9 7 (1.41%) Chocolatey
9 7 (1.41%) ERwin
9 7 (1.41%) MLflow
10 6 (1.21%) Mocha
10 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (1.21%) tSQLt
11 5 (1.01%) Maven
11 5 (1.01%) NUnit
11 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.80%) JUnit
12 4 (0.80%) Mockito
General
1 194 (39.03%) Finance
2 138 (27.77%) Social Skills
3 103 (20.72%) Banking
4 80 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.64%) Front Office
6 22 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.02%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.81%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.21%) Back Office
11 6 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.80%) Legal
12 4 (0.80%) Retail
12 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.60%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.60%) Law
13 3 (0.60%) Publishing
14 2 (0.40%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (35.41%) Developer
2 85 (17.10%) Senior
3 84 (16.90%) Data Engineer
4 78 (15.69%) C# Developer
5 38 (7.65%) .NET Developer
6 34 (6.84%) Lead
7 33 (6.64%) Architect
8 30 (6.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (5.84%) DBA
10 26 (5.23%) Senior Developer
11 23 (4.63%) SQL Developer
12 22 (4.43%) Software Engineer
13 21 (4.23%) C# .NET Developer
14 20 (4.02%) SQL DBA
15 19 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.42%) Integration Engineer
17 16 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
17 16 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
18 15 (3.02%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (28.37%) .NET
2 70 (14.08%) REST
3 64 (12.88%) .NET Framework
4 45 (9.05%) React
5 43 (8.65%) CSS
6 38 (7.65%) HTML
6 38 (7.65%) RESTful
7 37 (7.44%) AngularJS
8 31 (6.24%) Kafka
9 30 (6.04%) .NET Core
10 28 (5.63%) OAuth
11 27 (5.43%) XML
12 25 (5.03%) Web Services
13 24 (4.83%) ASP.NET
14 22 (4.43%) SOAP
15 17 (3.42%) Spring Boot
16 15 (3.02%) Spring
16 15 (3.02%) WinForms
16 15 (3.02%) WPF
17 14 (2.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 30 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.62%) Derivative
5 17 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.42%) Replication
6 15 (3.02%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.82%) Fixed Income
8 13 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.21%) Reinsurance
10 10 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.81%) Equities
12 8 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.41%) Clustering
13 7 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.41%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 104 (20.93%) Windows
2 45 (9.05%) Windows Server
3 32 (6.44%) Linux
4 10 (2.01%) Unix
5 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (26.76%) DevOps
2 131 (26.36%) CI/CD
3 114 (22.94%) Agile
4 106 (21.33%) ETL
5 97 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (18.51%) Data Modelling
7 90 (18.11%) Business Intelligence
8 78 (15.69%) AI
9 73 (14.69%) Analytics
10 71 (14.29%) Migration
11 68 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
12 65 (13.08%) Data Analysis
13 61 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
15 56 (11.27%) Data Engineering
16 53 (10.66%) Data Integration
17 50 (10.06%) Test Automation
18 47 (9.46%) Microservices
18 47 (9.46%) Software Engineering
19 45 (9.05%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 307 (61.77%) SQL
2 168 (33.80%) C#
3 137 (27.57%) Python
4 104 (20.93%) T-SQL
5 61 (12.27%) JavaScript
6 59 (11.87%) PL/SQL
7 49 (9.86%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.05%) Java
9 34 (6.84%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.41%) VB
11 11 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (2.01%) VBA
13 8 (1.61%) Bash
14 7 (1.41%) Bicep
14 7 (1.41%) Scala
14 7 (1.41%) XPath
15 6 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 5 (1.01%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.60%) R
18 2 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 63 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 54 (10.87%) Degree
3 48 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.80%) CCA
9 4 (0.80%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.80%) MCITP
9 4 (0.80%) MCTS
9 4 (0.80%) PhD
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) PMP
11 2 (0.40%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (13.68%) Data Quality
2 63 (12.68%) QA
3 10 (2.01%) SLA
4 9 (1.81%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.80%) Basel III
7 3 (0.60%) IFRS
7 3 (0.60%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) COREP
8 2 (0.40%) FINREP
8 2 (0.40%) GAAP
8 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) EMIR
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (9.86%) Docker
2 32 (6.44%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.80%) XenApp
6 4 (0.80%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.60%) GridGain
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 67 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.45%) Terraform
3 11 (2.21%) SCCM
4 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.21%) Ansible
6 4 (0.80%) SCVMM
7 3 (0.60%) Control-M
7 3 (0.60%) Grafana
7 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.40%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 150 (30.18%) Oracle
2 124 (24.95%) Microsoft
3 46 (9.26%) Databricks
4 43 (8.65%) Citrix
5 32 (6.44%) Informatica
6 19 (3.82%) SAP
7 18 (3.62%) VMware
8 15 (3.02%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.62%) Sybase
10 12 (2.41%) Dynatrace
10 12 (2.41%) IBM
11 10 (2.01%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.61%) OutSystems
12 8 (1.61%) UiPath
13 7 (1.41%) AppDynamics
13 7 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (1.41%) Google
13 7 (1.41%) Tenable
14 6 (1.21%) Alteryx
14 6 (1.21%) CyberArk