T-SQL Contracts in London

Transact-SQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 287 233 207
Rank change year-on-year -54 -26 +56
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 66 161 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.90% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 2.50% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 121 263
10th Percentile - £363 £389
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £628 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £748
England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
England median hourly rate £32.96 £7.85 £36.00
% change year-on-year +319.87% -78.19% +2.86%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 -21 9 £575 +9.52% 8
West London +10 3 £550 -4.35% 2
East London +12 2 £675 +68.75%
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (21.21%) IIS
2 6 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.52%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.52%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (48.48%) Azure
2 21 (31.82%) AWS
3 12 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 11 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (16.67%) Serverless
5 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (10.61%) GCP
7 6 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Functions
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Storage
8 5 (7.58%) GitHub
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.55%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (1.52%) Intranet
3 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (62.12%) SQL Server
2 16 (24.24%) Oracle Database
3 15 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (18.18%) Power BI
5 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
7 6 (9.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (7.58%) Tableau
9 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
9 4 (6.06%) DynamoDB
9 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (4.55%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.55%) Spark SQL
11 2 (3.03%) Big Data
11 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
11 2 (3.03%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
2 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.55%) git-flow
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.03%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.52%) ERwin
5 1 (1.52%) GitLab
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.52%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.52%) Subversion
5 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.52%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
4 5 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Front Office
5 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Local Government
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) C# Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Data Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Senior
4 13 (19.70%) C# WPF Developer
4 13 (19.70%) WPF Developer
5 11 (16.67%) C# WCF Developer
5 11 (16.67%) WCF Developer
6 7 (10.61%) .NET Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Analyst
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Architect
9 4 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 4 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.00%) .NET
2 20 (30.30%) .NET Framework
3 16 (24.24%) WCF
4 14 (21.21%) .NET Core
5 13 (19.70%) WPF
6 11 (16.67%) WinForms
7 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET
7 10 (15.15%) REST
8 9 (13.64%) Web Services
9 6 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (9.09%) Blazor
9 6 (9.09%) CSS
9 6 (9.09%) HTML
10 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (7.58%) Autofac
10 5 (7.58%) Dapper ORM
10 5 (7.58%) Entity Framework
10 5 (7.58%) Node.js
10 5 (7.58%) SOAP
10 5 (7.58%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) N-Tier
3 5 (7.58%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.06%) Replication
4 4 (6.06%) TWAP
4 4 (6.06%) VWAP
5 3 (4.55%) Clustering
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.52%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.52%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.52%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Solaris
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
2 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
3 16 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (24.24%) ETL
3 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.21%) Data Integration
6 13 (19.70%) Data Modelling
6 13 (19.70%) DevOps
6 13 (19.70%) Migration
7 11 (16.67%) Analytics
8 10 (15.15%) Data Management
8 10 (15.15%) OOP
8 10 (15.15%) Visualisation
9 9 (13.64%) Data Engineering
9 9 (13.64%) Data Governance
10 8 (12.12%) Data Migration
10 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
10 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (100.00%) SQL
2 33 (50.00%) C#
3 25 (37.88%) PL/SQL
3 25 (37.88%) Python
4 17 (25.76%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.18%) VBA
6 11 (16.67%) VB
7 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
8 6 (9.09%) C++
8 6 (9.09%) Go
8 6 (9.09%) R
9 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
10 3 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (4.55%) Ruby
10 3 (4.55%) Scala
11 2 (3.03%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (3.03%) Java
12 1 (1.52%) Bicep
12 1 (1.52%) Perl
12 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.58%) MCPD
3 5 (7.58%) MCSD
4 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) ISEB
6 1 (1.52%) MCDBA
6 1 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 8 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.12%) GDPR
3 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.03%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.52%) EMIR
5 1 (1.52%) HL7
5 1 (1.52%) MiFID
5 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) Terraform
3 1 (1.52%) Control-M
3 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.52%) QRadar
3 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.52%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) Oracle
2 19 (28.79%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.67%) Citrix
4 6 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (4.55%) Talend
6 2 (3.03%) Informatica
6 2 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.52%) BMC
7 1 (1.52%) CQG
7 1 (1.52%) EMC
7 1 (1.52%) IBM
7 1 (1.52%) NEC
7 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.52%) Reuters
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) Serena
7 1 (1.52%) Sybase
7 1 (1.52%) VMware