SQL Server Contracts in Central London

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 143 199 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.91% 5.42% 4.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.43% 25.95% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 132 157
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £438 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £695
90th Percentile £814 £788 £750
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +587.50%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +525.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 541 767 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.36% 20.90% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 485 685
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £708 £730 £713
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £587
% change year-on-year -2.17% -2.00% +8.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £42.50 £40.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £48.56
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +45.61% +312.50%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £63.75
London median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +85.43%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Central London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Central London

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
City of London +1 119 £538 -14.00% 55
West End of London +10 11 £505 -26.55% 3
City of Westminster +6 8 £575 -2.13% 1
Camden - 5 £505 - 1
SQL Server
London

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 8 (5.59%) IIS
2 5 (3.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.40%) CMS
3 2 (1.40%) JBoss
3 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.40%) nginx
3 2 (1.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Endur
2 3 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) MIS ActiveH
3 2 (1.40%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.40%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.70%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.15%) Azure
2 45 (31.47%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (18.88%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.89%) AWS
5 14 (9.79%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 10 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.90%) Azure Pipelines
10 6 (4.20%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.80%) GCP
11 4 (2.80%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.80%) PowerApps
12 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.10%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.10%) GitHub
12 3 (2.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Internet
2 4 (2.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.40%) DNS
3 2 (1.40%) SSL
4 1 (0.70%) FTP
4 1 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.29%) Power BI
1 19 (13.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 15 (10.49%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.59%) MySQL
6 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (4.20%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 6 (4.20%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (4.20%) Redis
8 5 (3.50%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.80%) Big Data
9 4 (2.80%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (13.99%) Git
2 10 (6.99%) JIRA
2 10 (6.99%) TeamCity
3 9 (6.29%) SpecFlow
4 8 (5.59%) Selenium
4 8 (5.59%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.80%) Postman
7 3 (2.10%) JMeter
7 3 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (2.10%) Subversion
8 2 (1.40%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.40%) ERwin
8 2 (1.40%) GitLab
8 2 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.40%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.70%) git-flow
9 1 (0.70%) Pylint
9 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.08%) Banking
3 20 (13.99%) Finance
4 14 (9.79%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.59%) Back Office
7 6 (4.20%) Front Office
7 6 (4.20%) Legal
7 6 (4.20%) Retail
8 5 (3.50%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) French Language
9 2 (1.40%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.70%) German Language
10 1 (0.70%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.70%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 66 (46.15%) Developer
2 29 (20.28%) Senior
3 18 (12.59%) Senior Developer
4 15 (10.49%) C# Developer
5 13 (9.09%) Analyst
5 13 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) SQL Developer
7 9 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) Software Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Azure Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (4.90%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.20%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (38.46%) .NET
2 24 (16.78%) XML
3 22 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 17 (11.89%) .NET Framework
5 15 (10.49%) ASP.NET
6 12 (8.39%) HTML
7 10 (6.99%) CSS
8 9 (6.29%) Kafka
8 9 (6.29%) React
9 8 (5.59%) Web Services
10 6 (4.20%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.20%) WCF
11 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (3.50%) WinForms
12 4 (2.80%) ARM Templates
12 4 (2.80%) Playwright
12 4 (2.80%) REST
13 3 (2.10%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (2.10%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.50%) Market Risk
2 5 (3.50%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.10%) Contactless
4 3 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.10%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.40%) Clustering
5 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.70%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.70%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.38%) Windows
2 12 (8.39%) Linux
2 12 (8.39%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.20%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.70%) CentOS
5 1 (0.70%) VMS
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (48.95%) DevOps
2 68 (47.55%) Agile
3 32 (22.38%) Scrum
4 27 (18.88%) CI/CD
5 26 (18.18%) SDLC
6 24 (16.78%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (16.08%) Migration
8 18 (12.59%) Data Modelling
8 18 (12.59%) ETL
9 16 (11.19%) Data Analysis
10 13 (9.09%) Analytics
10 13 (9.09%) OO
11 11 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 11 (7.69%) Software Engineering
11 11 (7.69%) TDD
11 11 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (6.99%) B2C
12 10 (6.99%) Kanban
12 10 (6.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (56.64%) SQL
2 74 (51.75%) C#
3 43 (30.07%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.38%) Python
5 20 (13.99%) T-SQL
6 16 (11.19%) Bicep
7 13 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 12 (8.39%) PL/SQL
9 7 (4.90%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.90%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.90%) XPath
10 6 (4.20%) Java
10 6 (4.20%) XQuery
11 4 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.10%) Bash
12 3 (2.10%) Perl
12 3 (2.10%) Scala
13 2 (1.40%) VBA
14 1 (0.70%) PHP
14 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (11.19%) Degree
2 7 (4.90%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.70%) ISEB
5 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.70%) SANS
5 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.99%) QA
3 8 (5.59%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.20%) SLA
4 6 (4.20%) WCAG
5 1 (0.70%) EMIR
5 1 (0.70%) FATCA
5 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.70%) MiFID
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (14.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.80%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.10%) Puppet
3 3 (2.10%) Terraform
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (1.40%) Graylog
4 2 (1.40%) Nagios
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.70%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.70%) Nessus
5 1 (0.70%) Rancher
5 1 (0.70%) SCCM
5 1 (0.70%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.70%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 60 (41.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (27.27%) Oracle
3 8 (5.59%) SAP
4 6 (4.20%) Cadence
4 6 (4.20%) iManage
5 4 (2.80%) Citrix
5 4 (2.80%) Databricks
5 4 (2.80%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.10%) IBM
6 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.10%) VMware
7 2 (1.40%) Informatica
7 2 (1.40%) NEC
7 2 (1.40%) Sparx
7 2 (1.40%) Splunk
7 2 (1.40%) Sybase
7 2 (1.40%) Temenos
8 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.70%) Veracode