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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 109
Rank change year-on-year -19 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 3 18 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.15% 0.83% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 2.44% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 11
10th Percentile £269 £455 £450
25th Percentile £278 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £353 £624 £673
90th Percentile £366 £731 £684
London median daily rate £415 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -20.95% +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 645 739 888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.35% 33.88% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 475 660
10th Percentile £360 £407 £400
25th Percentile £435 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -2.52% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £781 £788 £831
London median daily rate £538 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £38.10 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £40.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -17.39%
75th Percentile £38.50 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -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
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 10 January 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 -15 2 £350 -39.13% 9
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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Workday