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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 118 99
Rank change year-on-year -15 -19 +5
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 10 2 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.11% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 0.31% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 19
10th Percentile £418 - £440
25th Percentile £525 £405 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £410 £623
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% -34.14% +10.67%
75th Percentile £668 £415 £738
90th Percentile £741 - £755
Central London median daily rate £550 £343 £623
% change year-on-year +60.58% -44.98% +10.67%

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 654 648 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.21% 37.09% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 456 494
10th Percentile £400 £386 £406
25th Percentile £456 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.78% -2.96%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 3
10th Percentile £15.55 £22.05 £51.80
25th Percentile £25.14 £26.00 £74.38
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -69.64% +796.00%
75th Percentile £46.87 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £61.49 £73.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
% change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%

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 24 September 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 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) Power BI
3 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Lakehouse
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Presales
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks