SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South London > Sutton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sutton requiring SQL Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 100.00% 14.29% 14.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 100.00% 100.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +75.83% -47.83% -
75th Percentile £543 - £588
90th Percentile £544 - -
South London median daily rate £528 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +11.05% -11.63% +8.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Sutton

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 Sutton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton 100.00% 14.29% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £513 - £513
25th Percentile £513 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £300 £575
Median % change year-on-year +75.83% -47.83% -
75th Percentile £543 - £638
90th Percentile £544 - £668
South London median daily rate £525 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -2.42% +26.59% -22.73%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Sutton

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft