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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 95 118
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 +32
DemandTrendContract jobs citing T-SQL 2 29 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 1.40% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.29% 3.86% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 21 21
10th Percentile £432 £383 £363
25th Percentile £473 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £648 £738 £645
90th Percentile £694 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £555 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% +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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 682 752 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.80% 36.29% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 513 817
10th Percentile £393 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £601
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.33% +0.08%
75th Percentile £690 £708 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £580 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +0.87% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £22.05 - £18.53
25th Percentile £26.00 - £27.94
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £66.94
90th Percentile £73.75 - £77.78
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year +2.94% -10.27% -11.90%

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
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 26 August 2025.

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

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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Power Query
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Report Writer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
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%) Oracle