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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 97 110
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 2 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 1.39% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 3.91% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 20 21
10th Percentile - £396 £363
25th Percentile £405 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £611 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% +11.14% -
75th Percentile £415 £738 £645
90th Percentile - £753 £750
Central London median daily rate £343 £611 £550
% change year-on-year -43.97% +11.14% +3.77%

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 659 741 1,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.21% 35.54% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 504 795
10th Percentile £385 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £591 £605
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -2.27% +0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £736
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £580 £578 £600
% change year-on-year +0.43% -3.75% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% +220.00% -76.19%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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
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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Report Writer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Workday