T-SQL Contracts in the City of London

Transact-SQL
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 101 116
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +60
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 3 25 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 1.17% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 3.21% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 27
10th Percentile £619 £373 £385
25th Percentile £628 £456 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% +9.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £703 £656 £700
90th Percentile £716 £731 £750
Central London median daily rate £663 £600 £520
% change year-on-year +10.51% +15.29% -9.57%

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 701 780 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 36.60% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 545 902
10th Percentile £404 £406 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £690 £738
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the City of London.

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

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in the City of London

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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Software Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (33.33%) Derivative
2 1 (33.33%) Equities
2 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) CRUD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) KYC
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) CQG
1 1 (33.33%) ION Trading
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Reuters