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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 107 100
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 3 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.98% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 2.78% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 9
10th Percentile £333 £460 £473
25th Percentile £345 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £405 £720 £670
90th Percentile £411 £745 £677
Central London median daily rate £350 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -39.13% -8.00% +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 601 719 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.75% 35.28% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 459 598
10th Percentile £356 £406 £400
25th Percentile £432 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £775 £789 £831
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £51.80 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £74.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £112.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.32% +135.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -17.39%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power Query
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
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%) Report Writer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Workday