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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 240 223
Rank change year-on-year -73 -17 -20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 61 135 226
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.45% 0.86% 1.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 2.20% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 110 144
10th Percentile £306 £374 -
25th Percentile £391 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £578 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +15.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £572 £650 £616
90th Percentile £650 £705 £713
England median daily rate £450 £550 £486
% change year-on-year -18.18% +13.11% +0.26%
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 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +145.28% -24.29%

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 5,129 6,148 7,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 39.31% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,457 4,235 5,763
10th Percentile £373 £370 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.96% -1.95% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 42 66
10th Percentile £23.45 £35.08 £25.57
25th Percentile £32.06 £40.06 £40.09
Median hourly rate £43.50 £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62.88 £71.66 £69.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £85.78
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.13%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -20 3 £343 -45.09% 12
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 9 (14.75%) IIS
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.64%) Appian
3 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (24.59%) 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 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) Power Platform
3 10 (16.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.20%) Nutanix
6 4 (6.56%) AWS
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Functions
6 4 (6.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.92%) GitHub
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.64%) DHCP
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (83.61%) SQL Server
2 18 (29.51%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (22.95%) Power BI
4 13 (21.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (19.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (19.67%) Oracle Database
6 9 (14.75%) Data Lake
7 6 (9.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (6.56%) Power Query
10 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
11 2 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (3.28%) DataStage
11 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
11 2 (3.28%) OLAP
11 2 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (3.28%) Tableau
11 2 (3.28%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) ERwin
2 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
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
3 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (44.26%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.03%) Banking
4 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Back Office
6 3 (4.92%) Front Office
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Digital Health
7 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (68.85%) Developer
2 13 (21.31%) C# Developer
3 10 (16.39%) SQL Developer
4 9 (14.75%) .NET Developer
4 9 (14.75%) C# WPF Developer
4 9 (14.75%) WPF Developer
5 8 (13.11%) C# WCF Developer
5 8 (13.11%) WCF Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Architect
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Data Architect
7 5 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
7 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) DBA
7 5 (8.20%) ETL Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Analyst Developer
8 4 (6.56%) BPM Developer
8 4 (6.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (42.62%) .NET
2 12 (19.67%) .NET Framework
3 11 (18.03%) WPF
4 9 (14.75%) WCF
5 8 (13.11%) WinForms
6 7 (11.48%) JSON
6 7 (11.48%) Kafka
6 7 (11.48%) XML
7 6 (9.84%) React
7 6 (9.84%) RESTful
8 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
8 4 (6.56%) REST
8 4 (6.56%) Web Services
9 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (4.92%) Middleware
10 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 1 (1.64%) Bootstrap
10 1 (1.64%) Express.js
10 1 (1.64%) pytest
10 1 (1.64%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.92%) Clustering
2 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.28%) NHS
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) ETL
2 19 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (31.15%) Data Analysis
3 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.95%) Agile
4 14 (22.95%) Data Modelling
4 14 (22.95%) Migration
5 13 (21.31%) CI/CD
6 12 (19.67%) DevOps
7 11 (18.03%) Analytics
8 10 (16.39%) Data Integration
8 10 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (14.75%) Data Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) Data Management
10 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
11 7 (11.48%) OO
11 7 (11.48%) OOP
11 7 (11.48%) Scrum
12 6 (9.84%) Master Data Management
12 6 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 60 (98.36%) SQL
2 26 (42.62%) C#
3 18 (29.51%) PL/SQL
4 15 (24.59%) VBA
5 13 (21.31%) Python
6 8 (13.11%) VB
7 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.64%) Bicep
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) Degree
3 6 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) QA
2 8 (13.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.56%) MiFID
4 3 (4.92%) EMIR
5 2 (3.28%) GDPR
5 2 (3.28%) HL7
6 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
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 23 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 19 (31.15%) Oracle
3 9 (14.75%) Citrix
4 6 (9.84%) VMware
5 5 (8.20%) EMC
6 4 (6.56%) Databricks
6 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.92%) CQG
7 3 (4.92%) OpenText
7 3 (4.92%) TOWER Software
8 2 (3.28%) Alteryx
8 2 (3.28%) SAP
9 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.64%) Northgate
9 1 (1.64%) Okta
9 1 (1.64%) RedGate
9 1 (1.64%) Sybase
9 1 (1.64%) Workday