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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 222 212
Rank change year-on-year -79 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 61 173 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 1.06% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 2.64% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 141 168
10th Percentile £363 £363 -
25th Percentile £394 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +15.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £638
90th Percentile £665 £690 £733
England median daily rate £450 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% -
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 £35.75
% change year-on-year - +81.82% -10.63%

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 5,186 6,553 8,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.57% 40.23% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 4,698 6,182
10th Percentile £372 £364 £400
25th Percentile £426 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 72
10th Percentile £26.71 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £33.25 £33.99 £39.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +13.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.45 £72.13
90th Percentile £87.00 £78.50 £86.40
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 -23 3 £343 -43.97% 2
West London -14 2 £552 -4.00% 1
East London - 2 £675 - 2
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 10 (16.39%) IIS
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.64%) Appian
4 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.56%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (4.92%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.64%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (14.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (8.20%) AWS
5 5 (8.20%) Nutanix
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.28%) GCP
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (83.61%) SQL Server
2 18 (29.51%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (22.95%) Power BI
4 11 (18.03%) Oracle Database
4 11 (18.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (16.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (14.75%) Data Lake
7 5 (8.20%) Power Query
7 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
7 5 (8.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.28%) OLAP
10 2 (3.28%) OLAP Cube
10 2 (3.28%) PowerPivot
10 2 (3.28%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.28%) Tableau
10 2 (3.28%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) ERwin
1 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.28%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) Moq
3 1 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.64%) tSQLt
General
1 26 (42.62%) Finance
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Back Office
6 3 (4.92%) Front Office
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (65.57%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) C# Developer
3 10 (16.39%) C# WPF Developer
3 10 (16.39%) SQL Developer
3 10 (16.39%) WPF Developer
4 9 (14.75%) C# WCF Developer
4 9 (14.75%) WCF Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 6 (9.84%) .NET Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Analyst
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Architect
7 5 (8.20%) DBA
7 5 (8.20%) ETL Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Developer
8 4 (6.56%) BPM Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (44.26%) .NET
2 16 (26.23%) .NET Framework
3 12 (19.67%) WCF
4 10 (16.39%) WPF
5 9 (14.75%) WinForms
6 7 (11.48%) REST
7 6 (9.84%) JSON
7 6 (9.84%) Kafka
7 6 (9.84%) RESTful
7 6 (9.84%) Web Services
7 6 (9.84%) XML
8 5 (8.20%) .NET Core
8 5 (8.20%) React
9 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (6.56%) Entity Framework
10 3 (4.92%) Autofac
10 3 (4.92%) Dapper ORM
10 3 (4.92%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.92%) Clustering
2 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.92%) N-Tier
3 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Replication
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) ETL
2 20 (32.79%) Data Analysis
3 19 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (24.59%) Data Modelling
5 13 (21.31%) Agile
6 12 (19.67%) Analytics
6 12 (19.67%) Migration
6 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.03%) Data Integration
7 11 (18.03%) Data Management
7 11 (18.03%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (16.39%) DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) OOP
10 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
10 8 (13.11%) Data Design
10 8 (13.11%) Data Engineering
10 8 (13.11%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.11%) Scrum
11 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
12 6 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 61 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (47.54%) C#
3 16 (26.23%) PL/SQL
3 16 (26.23%) VBA
4 15 (24.59%) Python
5 9 (14.75%) VB
6 7 (11.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.64%) Bicep
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.92%) MCPD
5 3 (4.92%) MCSD
6 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) QA
2 9 (14.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) EMIR
3 3 (4.92%) MiFID
4 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) HL7
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Control-M
1 4 (6.56%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.59%) Oracle
3 10 (16.39%) Citrix
4 5 (8.20%) EMC
4 5 (8.20%) VMware
5 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.92%) CQG
6 3 (4.92%) Databricks
6 3 (4.92%) OpenText
6 3 (4.92%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.64%) Google
7 1 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (1.64%) Northgate
7 1 (1.64%) Okta
7 1 (1.64%) RedGate
7 1 (1.64%) Teradata
7 1 (1.64%) TSYS
7 1 (1.64%) Workday