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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 287 241
Rank change year-on-year -7 -46 -24
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 107 68 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.54% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.36% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 54 113
10th Percentile £350 £385 £363
25th Percentile £404 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% +10.81% -2.63%
75th Percentile £584 £634 £585
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
England median daily rate £415 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -17.00% +8.11% -2.63%

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 5,742 5,010 6,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.02% 39.43% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 3,508 4,834
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 28 55
10th Percentile £32.30 £29.07 £25.47
25th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £36.96
Median hourly rate £58.72 £44.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -11.39% -12.17%
75th Percentile £69.43 £60.94 £60.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.75 £68.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% +1.35%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -16 4 £475 -17.39% 11
West London -27 1 £550 - 1
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 20 (18.69%) IIS
2 6 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) Mule
5 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) Azure
2 28 (26.17%) Power Platform
3 24 (22.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (21.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (5.61%) AWS
7 6 (5.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.61%) GitHub
7 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.61%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.61%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.74%) Serverless
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) DHCP
2 2 (1.87%) DNS
2 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (83.18%) SQL Server
2 28 (26.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 27 (25.23%) Oracle Database
4 22 (20.56%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (17.76%) Power BI
6 16 (14.95%) Data Lake
7 14 (13.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (11.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (7.48%) Spark SQL
10 7 (6.54%) Delta Lake
11 6 (5.61%) Metadata
12 5 (4.67%) Star Schema
13 4 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (3.74%) DataStage
13 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 4 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (1.87%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.87%) OLAP
15 2 (1.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.54%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.80%) Mocha
3 3 (2.80%) MSTest
3 3 (2.80%) tSQLt
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.93%) ERwin
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) NUnit
5 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 25 (23.36%) Banking
4 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.87%) Local Government
7 2 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (55.14%) Developer
2 37 (34.58%) C# Developer
3 17 (15.89%) Data Engineer
4 11 (10.28%) .NET Developer
4 11 (10.28%) SQL Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Applications Developer
5 8 (7.48%) C# Application Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Senior
6 6 (5.61%) Architect
6 6 (5.61%) Azure Developer
6 6 (5.61%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Database Developer
6 6 (5.61%) SQL Database Developer
6 6 (5.61%) T-SQL Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Consultant
7 5 (4.67%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Architect
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (45.79%) .NET
2 38 (35.51%) .NET Framework
3 15 (14.02%) WinForms
4 14 (13.08%) WPF
5 9 (8.41%) CSS
5 9 (8.41%) HTML
6 8 (7.48%) React
7 7 (6.54%) JSON
8 6 (5.61%) PySpark
8 6 (5.61%) REST
8 6 (5.61%) SPFx
9 5 (4.67%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.74%) WCF
11 3 (2.80%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (2.80%) Middleware
11 3 (2.80%) RESTful
11 3 (2.80%) SOAP
11 3 (2.80%) YAML
12 2 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.48%) Replication
3 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Wiki
5 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.80%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.87%) Clustering
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Equities
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.38%) Windows
2 21 (19.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (37.38%) Data Analysis
3 37 (34.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (30.84%) Agile
5 31 (28.97%) DevOps
6 29 (27.10%) ETL
7 28 (26.17%) CI/CD
8 24 (22.43%) Change Management
8 24 (22.43%) Unit Testing
9 23 (21.50%) Analytics
10 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (17.76%) Dimensional Modelling
12 18 (16.82%) Data Engineering
12 18 (16.82%) Data Modelling
12 18 (16.82%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (16.82%) Migration
13 16 (14.95%) AI
13 16 (14.95%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (11.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 101 (94.39%) SQL
2 58 (54.21%) PL/SQL
3 53 (49.53%) C#
4 20 (18.69%) Python
5 13 (12.15%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.15%) VBA
6 12 (11.21%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.21%) VB
7 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.67%) Bicep
9 2 (1.87%) Java
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.93%) Groovy
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (38.32%) QA
2 16 (14.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) IFRS
4 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 53 (49.53%) Oracle
2 38 (35.51%) Microsoft
3 34 (31.78%) Citrix
4 18 (16.82%) Databricks
5 8 (7.48%) VMware
6 3 (2.80%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.87%) Sybase
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk