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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 281 227
Rank change year-on-year -28 -54 -31
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 73 76 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.56% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.43% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 57 112
10th Percentile £340 £363 -
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £606 £587
90th Percentile £685 £694 £650
England median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -
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 £27.00 £48.91 £18.41
% change year-on-year -44.79% +165.68% -47.41%

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 5,394 5,298 6,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.26% 38.82% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 3,482 4,950
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £510 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -3.32% -4.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 38 69
10th Percentile £21.58 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.69 £39.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.10 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -21 3 £313 -45.65% 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 17 (23.29%) IIS
2 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.37%) Mule
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (42.47%) Azure
2 16 (21.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (20.55%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (19.18%) Power Platform
5 12 (16.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (9.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (8.22%) GitHub
8 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.48%) AWS
10 3 (4.11%) Serverless
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.37%) Azure API Management
12 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.37%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) Internet
2 2 (2.74%) DHCP
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (82.19%) SQL Server
2 22 (30.14%) Oracle Database
3 19 (26.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (19.18%) Power BI
6 9 (12.33%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (8.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (6.85%) DataStage
8 5 (6.85%) Delta Lake
8 5 (6.85%) Spark SQL
9 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (5.48%) Star Schema
10 3 (4.11%) Data Vault
10 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.74%) Metadata
11 2 (2.74%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.74%) Power Query
11 2 (2.74%) PowerPivot
11 2 (2.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.85%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Mocha
4 1 (1.37%) MSTest
4 1 (1.37%) NUnit
4 1 (1.37%) Selenium
4 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.37%) tSQLt
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 32 (43.84%) Finance
2 21 (28.77%) Banking
3 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (67.12%) Developer
2 31 (42.47%) C# Developer
3 11 (15.07%) Data Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) SQL Developer
5 8 (10.96%) .NET Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) C# WCF Developer
7 6 (8.22%) C# WPF Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.22%) WCF Developer
7 6 (8.22%) WPF Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Applications Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Architect
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Developer
8 5 (6.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (6.85%) C# Application Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (49.32%) .NET
2 29 (39.73%) .NET Framework
3 14 (19.18%) WinForms
3 14 (19.18%) WPF
4 8 (10.96%) WCF
5 4 (5.48%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (5.48%) Middleware
6 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.11%) PySpark
6 3 (4.11%) React
6 3 (4.11%) REST
6 3 (4.11%) SOAP
7 2 (2.74%) ADO
7 2 (2.74%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.74%) CSS
7 2 (2.74%) Express.js
7 2 (2.74%) HTML
7 2 (2.74%) Kafka
7 2 (2.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.48%) Replication
2 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.37%) Equities
3 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (46.58%) Windows
2 17 (23.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (35.62%) CI/CD
3 25 (34.25%) Data Analysis
4 24 (32.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (30.14%) DevOps
6 19 (26.03%) Analytics
7 18 (24.66%) ETL
8 17 (23.29%) Agile
9 16 (21.92%) Unit Testing
10 14 (19.18%) Change Management
11 13 (17.81%) Data Modelling
11 13 (17.81%) Migration
11 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
12 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
12 10 (13.70%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (13.70%) Dimensional Modelling
12 10 (13.70%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (12.33%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 70 (95.89%) SQL
2 42 (57.53%) PL/SQL
3 37 (50.68%) C#
4 12 (16.44%) Python
4 12 (16.44%) VBA
5 11 (15.07%) VB
6 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.74%) Bicep
9 2 (2.74%) Java
10 1 (1.37%) Bash
10 1 (1.37%) DataWeave
10 1 (1.37%) Groovy
10 1 (1.37%) Scala
10 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Degree
2 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.48%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) HP APS
6 1 (1.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.36%) QA
2 7 (9.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
3 1 (1.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Control-M
1 1 (1.37%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (54.79%) Oracle
2 29 (39.73%) Microsoft
3 26 (35.62%) Citrix
4 15 (20.55%) Databricks
5 6 (8.22%) VMware
6 4 (5.48%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.74%) SAP
7 2 (2.74%) Sybase
8 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.37%) HP
8 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.37%) Okta
8 1 (1.37%) Splunk
8 1 (1.37%) Workday