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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 255 216
Rank change year-on-year -44 -39 -11
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 69 120 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.77% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 1.97% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 97 138
10th Percentile £363 £371 -
25th Percentile £404 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £556 £650 £609
90th Percentile £650 £712 £689
England median daily rate £450 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% +1.05%
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 5,342 6,082 7,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.58% 38.96% 36.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,596 4,143 5,616
10th Percentile £370 £366 £393
25th Percentile £430 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £565 £580
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -2.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 74
10th Percentile £22.52 £35.00 £25.76
25th Percentile £31.61 £40.06 £36.26
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 £65.08
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £76.75
England median hourly rate £63.32 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year -2.59% +4.97% +0.68%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -18 3 £343 -44.98% 25
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 13 (18.84%) IIS
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Appian
3 1 (1.45%) Camunda
Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Fidessa
1 3 (4.35%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 17 (24.64%) Power Platform
3 12 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) Nutanix
7 4 (5.80%) AWS
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Functions
7 4 (5.80%) Serverless
8 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 3 (4.35%) GitHub
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Internet
2 1 (1.45%) DHCP
2 1 (1.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (82.61%) SQL Server
2 19 (27.54%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (23.19%) Oracle Database
3 16 (23.19%) Power BI
4 14 (20.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (14.49%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.80%) Power Query
10 3 (4.35%) DataStage
10 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.35%) RDBMS
10 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (4.35%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.90%) OLAP
11 2 (2.90%) Tableau
11 2 (2.90%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.25%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) ERwin
4 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.45%) Moq
4 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.45%) tSQLt
4 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (46.38%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.39%) Banking
4 11 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Back Office
7 3 (4.35%) Front Office
7 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.90%) Digital Health
8 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.45%) Advertising
9 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (72.46%) Developer
2 21 (30.43%) C# Developer
3 11 (15.94%) C# WPF Developer
3 11 (15.94%) WPF Developer
4 10 (14.49%) C# WCF Developer
4 10 (14.49%) WCF Developer
5 9 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 9 (13.04%) SQL Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Architect
6 6 (8.70%) ETL Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Data Architect
7 5 (7.25%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) DBA
8 4 (5.80%) Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Analyst Developer
8 4 (5.80%) SQL DBA
9 3 (4.35%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (47.83%) .NET
2 20 (28.99%) .NET Framework
3 13 (18.84%) WPF
4 11 (15.94%) WCF
5 10 (14.49%) WinForms
6 7 (10.14%) JSON
6 7 (10.14%) Kafka
6 7 (10.14%) XML
7 6 (8.70%) React
7 6 (8.70%) RESTful
8 5 (7.25%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (5.80%) REST
9 4 (5.80%) Web Services
10 3 (4.35%) Middleware
11 2 (2.90%) PySpark
12 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
12 1 (1.45%) Material-UI
12 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
12 1 (1.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.35%) Clustering
2 3 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.90%) NHS
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.54%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 23 (33.33%) ETL
2 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 16 (23.19%) Agile
3 16 (23.19%) DevOps
4 15 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 15 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (21.74%) Migration
4 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.84%) Analytics
6 10 (14.49%) OO
6 10 (14.49%) OOP
7 9 (13.04%) Data Engineering
7 9 (13.04%) Data Integration
8 8 (11.59%) Computer Science
8 8 (11.59%) Data Management
8 8 (11.59%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (10.14%) Change Management
9 7 (10.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (98.55%) SQL
2 33 (47.83%) C#
3 25 (36.23%) PL/SQL
4 17 (24.64%) VBA
5 13 (18.84%) Python
6 10 (14.49%) VB
7 6 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.35%) Bicep
9 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Degree
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) QA
2 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.80%) MiFID
4 3 (4.35%) EMIR
5 2 (2.90%) GDPR
5 2 (2.90%) HL7
6 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Control-M
1 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (37.68%) Microsoft
1 26 (37.68%) Oracle
2 14 (20.29%) Citrix
3 6 (8.70%) VMware
4 5 (7.25%) Databricks
4 5 (7.25%) EMC
5 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.35%) CQG
6 3 (4.35%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.90%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.90%) OpenText
7 2 (2.90%) SAP
8 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.45%) Northgate
8 1 (1.45%) Okta
8 1 (1.45%) RedGate
8 1 (1.45%) Sybase
8 1 (1.45%) Workday