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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 108 100
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 4 12 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.65% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 1.73% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £339 £443 £515
25th Percentile £359 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £459 £613 £650
90th Percentile £476 £664 £677
Central London median daily rate £350 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -39.13% -4.17% +15.38%

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 596 695 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.06% 37.71% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 441 551
10th Percentile £355 £413 £404
25th Percentile £425 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%

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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Workday