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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 266 223
Rank change year-on-year -35 -43 -23
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 68 113 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.73% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 1.88% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 86 130
10th Percentile £361 £380 -
25th Percentile £404 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £590 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.66% +18.00% -
75th Percentile £546 £650 £606
90th Percentile £653 £731 £696
England median daily rate £415 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -22.79% +13.16% -
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 £23.60
% change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%

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 5,385 6,015 7,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.07% 38.66% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 4,092 5,376
10th Percentile £363 £375 £394
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 39 68
10th Percentile £25.34 £36.55 £26.11
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.32 £36.70
Median hourly rate £49.47 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.19 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -13 3 £343 -41.92% 5
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 14 (20.59%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Appian
3 1 (1.47%) Camunda
Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Fidessa
1 3 (4.41%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (4.41%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Azure
2 11 (16.18%) Power Platform
3 9 (13.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (7.35%) Nutanix
7 4 (5.88%) AWS
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.94%) Serverless
9 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.47%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Internet
2 2 (2.94%) DHCP
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (83.82%) SQL Server
2 18 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (26.47%) Oracle Database
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (16.18%) Power BI
5 8 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.88%) Power Query
8 4 (5.88%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.41%) DataStage
9 3 (4.41%) Metadata
9 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.41%) RDBMS
9 3 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.94%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.88%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.47%) GitLab
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (1.47%) Moq
4 1 (1.47%) NUnit
4 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.47%) Selenium
4 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 30 (44.12%) Finance
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Back Office
6 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Front Office
7 1 (1.47%) Advertising
7 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (76.47%) Developer
2 23 (33.82%) C# Developer
3 11 (16.18%) .NET Developer
4 9 (13.24%) SQL Developer
5 8 (11.76%) C# WCF Developer
5 8 (11.76%) C# WPF Developer
5 8 (11.76%) WCF Developer
5 8 (11.76%) WPF Developer
6 7 (10.29%) ETL Developer
7 6 (8.82%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Analyst
8 4 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Developer
9 3 (4.41%) BPM Developer
9 3 (4.41%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Report Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Report Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.00%) .NET
2 21 (30.88%) .NET Framework
3 12 (17.65%) WPF
4 11 (16.18%) WinForms
5 10 (14.71%) WCF
6 7 (10.29%) Kafka
6 7 (10.29%) XML
7 6 (8.82%) JSON
7 6 (8.82%) React
8 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (7.35%) RESTful
9 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.88%) Middleware
9 4 (5.88%) Web Services
10 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.94%) Bootstrap
10 2 (2.94%) Express.js
10 2 (2.94%) PySpark
10 2 (2.94%) REST
10 2 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.41%) Fixed Income
2 3 (4.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.94%) Clustering
3 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.47%) IoT
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Data Analysis
2 24 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (30.88%) ETL
4 20 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.47%) Agile
6 17 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (23.53%) DevOps
7 16 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (17.65%) Analytics
8 12 (17.65%) Migration
9 11 (16.18%) Data Modelling
9 11 (16.18%) OO
9 11 (16.18%) OOP
10 10 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (13.24%) Change Management
11 9 (13.24%) Data Engineering
11 9 (13.24%) Data Integration
12 8 (11.76%) Scrum
12 8 (11.76%) Unit Testing
13 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 66 (97.06%) SQL
2 36 (52.94%) C#
3 29 (42.65%) PL/SQL
4 15 (22.06%) VBA
5 13 (19.12%) Python
6 9 (13.24%) VB
7 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.41%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) Scala
10 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) HP APS
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.41%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.88%) MiFID
4 3 (4.41%) EMIR
5 2 (2.94%) GDPR
6 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.47%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Control-M
1 4 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.47%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (44.12%) Oracle
2 26 (38.24%) Microsoft
3 17 (25.00%) Citrix
4 7 (10.29%) VMware
5 6 (8.82%) Databricks
6 5 (7.35%) EMC
7 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (4.41%) CQG
8 3 (4.41%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.94%) Alteryx
9 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.94%) OpenText
9 2 (2.94%) SAP
10 1 (1.47%) HP
10 1 (1.47%) Okta
10 1 (1.47%) Sybase
10 1 (1.47%) Workday