T-SQL Contract Job Trends in London

Transact-SQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 269 217
Rank change year-on-year -36 -52 -27
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 69 95 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.66% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.74% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 71 111
10th Percentile £322 £363 -
25th Percentile £404 £445 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £537 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £703 £684
England median daily rate £415 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -19.02% +7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,331 5,451 6,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 38.10% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,583 3,644 4,868
10th Percentile £363 £373 £391
25th Percentile £425 £460 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £699 £700
90th Percentile £787 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 65
10th Percentile £25.93 £35.45 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.19 £68.75 £64.53
90th Percentile £81.38 £97.50 £72.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.85%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL within the London region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -17 4 £350 -39.13% 27
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 15 (21.74%) IIS
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 32 (46.38%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) Azure Data Factory
2 16 (23.19%) Power Platform
3 12 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.80%) GitHub
6 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.35%) AWS
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.90%) Serverless
8 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.45%) GCP
9 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.04%) Internet
2 2 (2.90%) DHCP
2 2 (2.90%) DNS
2 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (84.06%) SQL Server
2 20 (28.99%) Oracle Database
3 19 (27.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (24.64%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (23.19%) Power BI
6 11 (15.94%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (7.25%) DataStage
9 4 (5.80%) Delta Lake
9 4 (5.80%) Power Query
9 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (5.80%) Spark SQL
9 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (5.80%) Star Schema
10 3 (4.35%) Data Vault
11 2 (2.90%) Metadata
11 2 (2.90%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.70%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
5 1 (1.45%) Moq
5 1 (1.45%) NUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 31 (44.93%) Finance
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.74%) Banking
4 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Back Office
8 1 (1.45%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.45%) Front Office
8 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (68.12%) Developer
2 27 (39.13%) C# Developer
3 11 (15.94%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) SQL Developer
6 7 (10.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (10.14%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (10.14%) C# WPF Developer
6 7 (10.14%) WCF Developer
6 7 (10.14%) WPF Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Architect
8 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Azure Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Architect
9 4 (5.80%) Azure Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Data Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) ETL Developer
9 4 (5.80%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Analyst Developer
10 3 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (49.28%) .NET
2 23 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 12 (17.39%) WinForms
3 12 (17.39%) WPF
4 9 (13.04%) WCF
5 5 (7.25%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (7.25%) Kafka
6 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.80%) JSON
6 4 (5.80%) Middleware
6 4 (5.80%) React
6 4 (5.80%) Web Services
6 4 (5.80%) XML
7 3 (4.35%) PySpark
8 2 (2.90%) ADO
8 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.90%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.90%) Express.js
8 2 (2.90%) REST
8 2 (2.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.45%) Clustering
3 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.45%) IoT
3 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.45%) NHS
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.13%) Windows
2 13 (18.84%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (34.78%) Data Analysis
3 23 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 21 (30.43%) ETL
5 19 (27.54%) DevOps
6 18 (26.09%) Agile
6 18 (26.09%) Analytics
7 17 (24.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (20.29%) Data Modelling
10 12 (17.39%) Data Engineering
10 12 (17.39%) Data Governance
10 12 (17.39%) Migration
11 11 (15.94%) OO
11 11 (15.94%) OOP
12 10 (14.49%) Change Management
13 9 (13.04%) Data Integration
13 9 (13.04%) Dimensional Modelling
13 9 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (13.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (97.10%) SQL
2 35 (50.72%) C#
3 32 (46.38%) PL/SQL
4 12 (17.39%) Python
4 12 (17.39%) VBA
5 9 (13.04%) VB
6 8 (11.59%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.90%) Bicep
10 1 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) HP APS
6 1 (1.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (30.43%) QA
2 8 (11.59%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) MiFID
4 1 (1.45%) EMIR
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Control-M
1 2 (2.90%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 33 (47.83%) Oracle
2 29 (42.03%) Microsoft
3 20 (28.99%) Citrix
4 15 (21.74%) Databricks
5 5 (7.25%) VMware
6 4 (5.80%) Alteryx
6 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.90%) EMC
7 2 (2.90%) SAP
8 1 (1.45%) CQG
8 1 (1.45%) HP
8 1 (1.45%) Okta
8 1 (1.45%) Sybase
8 1 (1.45%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.45%) Workday