T-SQL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Transact-SQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 108 103
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 7 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.36% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 0.91% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 13
10th Percentile £338 £533 £367
25th Percentile £378 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £622 £681 £650
90th Percentile £653 £708 £755
Central London median daily rate £513 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +19.05% -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 611 659 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.25% 39.79% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 440 544
10th Percentile £355 £410 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £545 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -5.22% +4.36% -11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.82%
75th Percentile £56.11 - £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £48.50
% change year-on-year +29.00% -40.06% -11.82%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the City of London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the City of London

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Local Government
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Business Development
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Bicep
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks