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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 116 100
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +19
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 4 12 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.18% 0.61% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 1.59% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £353 £454 £389
25th Percentile £394 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +2.22% +8.17%
75th Percentile £563 £654 £650
90th Percentile £608 £709 £681
London median daily rate £415 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -17.00% +8.11% -3.14%

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 687 757 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.24% 38.17% 33.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 500 617
10th Percentile £355 £407 £411
25th Percentile £446 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -6.20%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -39.44% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £54.75 £47.00 £51.13
% change year-on-year +16.49% -8.07% -11.09%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -28 4 £475 -17.39% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Design
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle