SQL Server Contracts in London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 827 1,316 2,018
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.67% 4.92% 5.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.60% 24.14% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 1,033 1,564
10th Percentile £363 £400 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £694
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - +12.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - £39.05 £22.75
25th Percentile - £43.63 £30.13
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +39.81%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £70.50 £67.92
England median hourly rate £40.25 £43.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.47% -10.31% +73.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,829 5,452 8,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.64% 20.39% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 3,982 6,213
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 53 36
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.50 £34.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £55.20
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.35% +58.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £64.78 £89.66 £81.88
England median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £43.38
% change year-on-year -30.22% +32.56% +74.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 May 2024. 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 +2 131 £505 -19.20% 66
East London -4 21 £495 +18.56% 20
West London +21 10 £448 -25.33% 13
South London +1 7 £475 -5.00% 8
North London - 3 £250 -
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.26%) IIS
3 19 (2.30%) CMS
4 14 (1.69%) Apache
4 14 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.33%) Confluence
6 9 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.73%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.73%) Tornado
8 5 (0.60%) JBoss
8 5 (0.60%) nginx
9 3 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.12%) Jadu
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 56 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.66%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.06%) Endur
2 14 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.60%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.48%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.36%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.24%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.24%) Visualfiles
8 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.12%) BusinessWorks
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 426 (51.51%) Azure
2 203 (24.55%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (15.11%) Power Platform
4 104 (12.58%) AWS
5 81 (9.79%) Entra ID
6 70 (8.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 70 (8.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 45 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 41 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
8 41 (4.96%) GitHub
9 40 (4.84%) Serverless
10 38 (4.59%) PowerApps
11 34 (4.11%) Azure Functions
12 33 (3.99%) Power Automate
13 25 (3.02%) PaaS
14 23 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (2.42%) Azure Pipelines
16 19 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
17 18 (2.18%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.90%) Firewall
2 16 (1.93%) Internet
3 15 (1.81%) DNS
4 10 (1.21%) FTP
5 4 (0.48%) NAS
5 4 (0.48%) SAN
5 4 (0.48%) SSL
6 3 (0.36%) HTTP
6 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.36%) Wireless
7 2 (0.24%) DHCP
7 2 (0.24%) SSH
7 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 2 (0.24%) WAN
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) LAN
8 1 (0.12%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (13.18%) Power BI
2 104 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (11.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 72 (8.71%) PostgreSQL
5 68 (8.22%) Relational Database
6 59 (7.13%) MySQL
7 57 (6.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 49 (5.93%) NoSQL
9 37 (4.47%) Oracle Database
10 31 (3.75%) Metadata
10 31 (3.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 28 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (3.14%) RDBMS
13 24 (2.90%) Data Lake
14 22 (2.66%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
16 17 (2.06%) Redis
17 15 (1.81%) Big Data
18 14 (1.69%) Tableau
19 9 (1.09%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 98 (11.85%) Git
2 46 (5.56%) JIRA
3 39 (4.72%) SpecFlow
4 37 (4.47%) Visual Studio
5 27 (3.26%) Selenium
6 25 (3.02%) TeamCity
7 19 (2.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 18 (2.18%) Jenkins
9 14 (1.69%) GitLab
10 13 (1.57%) WebDriver
11 11 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.09%) ERwin
12 9 (1.09%) JMeter
13 8 (0.97%) Postman
13 8 (0.97%) Visual Studio Team System
14 7 (0.85%) NUnit
14 7 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.73%) Maven
General
1 217 (26.24%) Finance
2 175 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 111 (13.42%) Banking
4 94 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (5.68%) Back Office
7 33 (3.99%) Front Office
8 32 (3.87%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 17 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.81%) Local Government
10 15 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 15 (1.81%) Marketing
11 12 (1.45%) Retail
11 12 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.21%) Electronics
13 9 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.97%) Publishing
15 7 (0.85%) Legal
16 5 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 387 (46.80%) Developer
2 161 (19.47%) Senior
3 118 (14.27%) Senior Developer
4 117 (14.15%) C# Developer
5 87 (10.52%) .NET Developer
6 56 (6.77%) Software Developer
7 53 (6.41%) Data Engineer
8 51 (6.17%) Analyst
9 47 (5.68%) Azure Developer
10 46 (5.56%) Architect
11 45 (5.44%) Senior Software Developer
12 43 (5.20%) C# .NET Developer
13 41 (4.96%) Backend Developer
14 39 (4.72%) SQL Developer
15 33 (3.99%) Lead
16 32 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (3.63%) Consultant
17 30 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
18 29 (3.51%) DBA
18 29 (3.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (37.48%) .NET
2 135 (16.32%) XML
3 120 (14.51%) .NET Core
4 107 (12.94%) .NET Framework
5 78 (9.43%) HTML
6 76 (9.19%) AngularJS
7 72 (8.71%) ASP.NET
8 60 (7.26%) React
9 57 (6.89%) CSS
10 41 (4.96%) Web Services
11 39 (4.72%) REST
12 34 (4.11%) JSON
13 33 (3.99%) Kafka
14 29 (3.51%) WCF
15 27 (3.26%) jQuery
16 24 (2.90%) SOAP
17 22 (2.66%) ARM Templates
17 22 (2.66%) Entity Framework
17 22 (2.66%) RESTful
18 21 (2.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 58 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 35 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.26%) Replication
4 23 (2.78%) Hedge funds
5 21 (2.54%) Derivative
5 21 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.06%) Clustering
6 17 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (1.33%) Contactless
9 11 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.09%) Client/Server
11 9 (1.09%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.97%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 131 (15.84%) Windows
2 65 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 61 (7.38%) Linux
4 29 (3.51%) Unix
5 27 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.57%) Windows 10
9 9 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.60%) CentOS
11 4 (0.48%) Android
11 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.36%) VMS
12 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.12%) OS/390
14 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (39.06%) Agile
2 288 (34.82%) DevOps
3 159 (19.23%) Scrum
4 156 (18.86%) CI/CD
5 131 (15.84%) Business Intelligence
6 117 (14.15%) Migration
7 111 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (12.45%) ETL
9 100 (12.09%) TDD
10 89 (10.76%) Data Modelling
11 75 (9.07%) OO
12 72 (8.71%) Software Engineering
13 65 (7.86%) SDLC
14 63 (7.62%) B2C
15 59 (7.13%) Data Analysis
16 54 (6.53%) Test Automation
17 53 (6.41%) Clean Code
17 53 (6.41%) OOD
18 51 (6.17%) API Management
19 49 (5.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 408 (49.33%) SQL
2 381 (46.07%) C#
3 185 (22.37%) PowerShell
4 107 (12.94%) JavaScript
4 107 (12.94%) T-SQL
5 104 (12.58%) Python
6 94 (11.37%) Bicep
7 80 (9.67%) Java
8 67 (8.10%) PL/SQL
9 45 (5.44%) TypeScript
10 28 (3.39%) VBA
11 21 (2.54%) VB
12 20 (2.42%) VB.NET
13 14 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.45%) Bash
15 11 (1.33%) PHP
16 10 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (1.09%) XPath
18 7 (0.85%) C++
18 7 (0.85%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 80 (9.67%) Degree
2 67 (8.10%) Security Cleared
3 33 (3.99%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.36%) CISSP
10 3 (0.36%) MCITP
10 3 (0.36%) MCTS
11 2 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.24%) CITP
11 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.24%) MCSE
11 2 (0.24%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.05%) QA
2 36 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.54%) WCAG
5 13 (1.57%) SLA
6 12 (1.45%) GDPR
7 11 (1.33%) MiFID
8 5 (0.60%) EMIR
9 4 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS
10 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) FATCA
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
System Software
1 172 (20.80%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.11%) Docker
3 16 (1.93%) IAG
4 15 (1.81%) ACF2
4 15 (1.81%) RACF
5 12 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.36%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.12%) vCloud
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.39%) Terraform
3 22 (2.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (2.30%) Ansible
5 18 (2.18%) SCCM
5 18 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.33%) Puppet
7 8 (0.97%) Grafana
7 8 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.85%) Data Guard
9 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.36%) Netcool
12 2 (0.24%) Backup Exec
12 2 (0.24%) Control-M
12 2 (0.24%) Nagios
12 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 2 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 332 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 208 (25.15%) Oracle
3 40 (4.84%) Databricks
4 30 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.14%) Sybase
6 24 (2.90%) Citrix
6 24 (2.90%) Informatica
7 23 (2.78%) SAP
7 23 (2.78%) VMware
8 20 (2.42%) Veeam
9 18 (2.18%) Sparx
10 17 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.45%) CA
12 11 (1.33%) OpenLink
12 11 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.09%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.09%) Qualys
13 9 (1.09%) Splunk
14 8 (0.97%) IBM
15 7 (0.85%) AVEVA