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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 82 41
Rank change year-on-year -32 -41 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 477 433 872
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 3.19% 5.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.70% 14.89% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 322 608
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £652
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
England median daily rate £490 £508 £505
% change year-on-year -3.45% +0.50% -3.81%
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 £29.48 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -37.50% -12.09%

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 3,482 2,908 4,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.62% 21.44% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,335 2,028 3,020
10th Percentile £363 £384 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 28
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £34.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -9.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60.12 £62.88 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £84.50 £69.40
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.49% -10.39% -33.04%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -29 68 £575 +4.55% 11
West London -16 4 £550 -15.64% 6
East London 0 3 £630 +21.15% 2
South London -11 2 £650 -3.70% 4
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 33 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 27 (5.66%) IIS
3 13 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.73%) Camunda
4 12 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.31%) Apache
6 10 (2.10%) Appian
6 10 (2.10%) Confluence
7 7 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.21%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.21%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.21%) Mule
10 1 (0.21%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.26%) OpenText MBPM
2 6 (1.26%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.84%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.63%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.42%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Endur
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
1 207 (43.40%) Azure
2 104 (21.80%) AWS
3 67 (14.05%) Power Platform
4 63 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (10.27%) GitHub
6 39 (8.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (5.66%) Serverless
8 25 (5.24%) Power Automate
9 22 (4.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.61%) SaaS
9 22 (4.61%) Snowflake
10 20 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.77%) GCP
12 17 (3.56%) Datadog
12 17 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
12 17 (3.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.61%) DNS
2 17 (3.56%) DHCP
3 13 (2.73%) Internet
4 12 (2.52%) Firewall
5 10 (2.10%) VPN
6 9 (1.89%) SAN
7 7 (1.47%) VLAN
7 7 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.26%) HTTPS
8 6 (1.26%) SSH
9 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.42%) FTP
10 2 (0.42%) Intranet
10 2 (0.42%) SSL
10 2 (0.42%) WinSCP
11 1 (0.21%) DMZ
11 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.21%) MQTT
11 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.63%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (13.21%) Relational Database
3 55 (11.53%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (10.06%) Power BI
5 45 (9.43%) Oracle Database
6 40 (8.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 28 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 28 (5.87%) MongoDB
8 26 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (4.19%) Data Lake
10 19 (3.98%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.14%) Redis
11 15 (3.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 11 (2.31%) MySQL
13 10 (2.10%) Metadata
14 9 (1.89%) Big Data
14 9 (1.89%) Star Schema
15 8 (1.68%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.68%) Tableau
16 7 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (9.01%) Git
2 23 (4.82%) JIRA
3 19 (3.98%) Visual Studio
4 18 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 18 (3.77%) TeamCity
5 11 (2.31%) GitLab
6 10 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (1.68%) Chocolatey
7 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.68%) MSTest
8 7 (1.47%) Maven
9 6 (1.26%) JUnit
9 6 (1.26%) Mocha
9 6 (1.26%) Mockito
9 6 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (1.26%) tSQLt
10 5 (1.05%) ERwin
10 5 (1.05%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 196 (41.09%) Finance
2 141 (29.56%) Social Skills
3 107 (22.43%) Banking
4 95 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.34%) Front Office
6 21 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.52%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.26%) Back Office
11 6 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Legal
13 3 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.63%) Publishing
13 3 (0.63%) Retail
14 2 (0.42%) Prime Brokerage
15 1 (0.21%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.21%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 188 (39.41%) Developer
2 79 (16.56%) C# Developer
3 69 (14.47%) Senior
4 53 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 44 (9.22%) .NET Developer
6 32 (6.71%) Lead
7 31 (6.50%) Architect
8 30 (6.29%) DBA
9 28 (5.87%) SQL Developer
10 27 (5.66%) Senior Developer
11 26 (5.45%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.82%) C# .NET Developer
13 22 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
13 22 (4.61%) SQL DBA
14 21 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.56%) Consultant
16 17 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
17 15 (3.14%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (32.08%) .NET
2 76 (15.93%) REST
3 70 (14.68%) .NET Framework
4 51 (10.69%) React
5 43 (9.01%) CSS
6 38 (7.97%) AngularJS
7 37 (7.76%) HTML
8 35 (7.34%) RESTful
9 34 (7.13%) .NET Core
10 29 (6.08%) ASP.NET
11 28 (5.87%) Kafka
12 25 (5.24%) Web Services
13 24 (5.03%) SOAP
13 24 (5.03%) XML
14 22 (4.61%) OAuth
15 20 (4.19%) WinForms
16 18 (3.77%) JSON
16 18 (3.77%) Spring Boot
16 18 (3.77%) WPF
17 15 (3.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.50%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.98%) Replication
5 18 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.35%) Derivative
7 14 (2.94%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.52%) Low-Code
9 11 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.89%) Equities
12 8 (1.68%) Clustering
12 8 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.68%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.68%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.85%) Windows
2 49 (10.27%) Windows Server
3 32 (6.71%) Linux
4 9 (1.89%) Unix
5 3 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (28.09%) DevOps
2 123 (25.79%) CI/CD
3 117 (24.53%) Agile
4 103 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (16.14%) Migration
6 76 (15.93%) AI
6 76 (15.93%) ETL
7 70 (14.68%) Data Modelling
7 70 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 68 (14.26%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (13.42%) Performance Tuning
10 58 (12.16%) Data Analysis
11 52 (10.90%) Software Engineering
12 51 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
13 50 (10.48%) Microservices
14 48 (10.06%) Analytics
14 48 (10.06%) Test Automation
15 43 (9.01%) Validation
16 42 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (8.81%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 292 (61.22%) SQL
2 177 (37.11%) C#
3 119 (24.95%) Python
4 106 (22.22%) T-SQL
5 68 (14.26%) JavaScript
6 59 (12.37%) PL/SQL
7 54 (11.32%) PowerShell
8 45 (9.43%) Java
9 38 (7.97%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.52%) VBA
11 11 (2.31%) VB
12 10 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.89%) Bash
14 7 (1.47%) Scala
15 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.26%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.26%) XPath
16 4 (0.84%) Bicep
16 4 (0.84%) Groovy
17 2 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.85%) Degree
3 43 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.84%) MCITP
9 4 (0.84%) MCTS
9 4 (0.84%) PhD
10 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) ISEB
11 2 (0.42%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.21%) QA
2 46 (9.64%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.73%) SLA
4 8 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.05%) GDPR
6 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.84%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) Basel III
7 2 (0.42%) COREP
7 2 (0.42%) FINREP
7 2 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.42%) 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 39 (8.18%) Docker
2 33 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.63%) GridGain
6 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.42%) 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 59 (12.37%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.76%) Terraform
3 9 (1.89%) SCCM
4 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.05%) Ansible
6 3 (0.63%) Grafana
6 3 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.21%) Packer
8 1 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.21%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 146 (30.61%) Oracle
2 115 (24.11%) Microsoft
3 41 (8.60%) Citrix
4 28 (5.87%) Databricks
5 22 (4.61%) VMware
6 21 (4.40%) Informatica
7 16 (3.35%) SAP
8 14 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.73%) Sybase
10 11 (2.31%) CyberArk
11 10 (2.10%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.68%) AppDynamics
12 8 (1.68%) IBM
12 8 (1.68%) OutSystems
12 8 (1.68%) Tenable
13 7 (1.47%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.05%) Cisco
14 5 (1.05%) Google
14 5 (1.05%) OpenText
14 5 (1.05%) UiPath