T-SQL Contract Job Trends in Central London

Transact-SQL
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 111 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +18
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 5 11 34
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.24% 0.53% 1.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.46% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile £275 £431 £453
25th Percentile £294 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +18.52%
75th Percentile £431 £588 £656
90th Percentile £465 £645 £683
London median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -5.00%

All Programming Languages
Central London

T-SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 655 752 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.81% 36.31% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 486 621
10th Percentile £356 £412 £413
25th Percentile £436 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £755 £754 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £32.14 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £36.75 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 £112.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £56.38 £47.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +19.96% -6.93% -12.17%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in Central London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in Central London over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in Central London

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
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 T-SQL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 February 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
City of London -12 4 £413 -25.00% 3
T-SQL
London

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Data Design
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Workday