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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 102 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 +41
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 9 25 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 1.14% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 3.36% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 29
10th Percentile £533 £363 £393
25th Percentile £563 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £588
90th Percentile £690 £653 £685
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%

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 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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
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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Rubrik
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Serena SBM
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Blazor
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
4 1 (11.11%) PySpark
4 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Equities
2 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (22.22%) Ruby
6 1 (11.11%) Bash
6 1 (11.11%) C++
6 1 (11.11%) Go
6 1 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) EMIR
2 1 (11.11%) MiFID
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 1 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) CQG
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) ION Trading
3 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Reuters
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Serena
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) VMware