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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 293 222
Rank change year-on-year -41 -71 -4
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 115 66 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.49% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 1.28% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 62 143
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £417 £390 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -17.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £668 £598 £631
90th Percentile £768 £649 £728
England median daily rate £458 £456 £538
% change year-on-year +0.33% -15.12% +7.50%

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 6,338 5,140 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.45% 38.45% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,253 3,585 4,777
10th Percentile £381 £375 £370
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £690 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 61 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.32 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -6.32% -22.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -10 13 £625 +12.61% 3
South London - 2 £725 - 1
East London +2 1 £500 -25.93% 3
North London - 1 £550 -
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 18 (15.65%) IIS
2 13 (11.30%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.35%) Appian
3 5 (4.35%) Camunda
3 5 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.74%) Confluence
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) MTS
5 1 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (6.09%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.48%) Elite 3E
3 3 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.87%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.87%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 33 (28.70%) Azure
2 32 (27.83%) Power Platform
3 18 (15.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (12.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (10.43%) AWS
6 11 (9.57%) PowerApps
7 10 (8.70%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.48%) Serverless
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.61%) Collibra
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.74%) dbt
11 2 (1.74%) GitHub
11 2 (1.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (78.26%) SQL Server
2 30 (26.09%) Oracle Database
3 24 (20.87%) Power BI
4 21 (18.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (6.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
9 6 (5.22%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.48%) DataStage
11 4 (3.48%) Metadata
11 4 (3.48%) OLAP
11 4 (3.48%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.61%) Sybase ASE
12 3 (2.61%) Tableau
13 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.48%) JIRA
4 3 (2.61%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.61%) Mocha
4 3 (2.61%) MSTest
4 3 (2.61%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) GitLab
6 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.87%) Moq
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (42.61%) Finance
2 42 (36.52%) Social Skills
3 36 (31.30%) Banking
4 24 (20.87%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Front Office
6 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (57.39%) Developer
2 26 (22.61%) C# Developer
3 16 (13.91%) Senior
3 16 (13.91%) SQL Developer
4 15 (13.04%) .NET Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Consultant
7 7 (6.09%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Applications Support
9 5 (4.35%) BPM Developer
9 5 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) SharePoint Consultant
10 4 (3.48%) Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Data Integration Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (51.30%) .NET
2 34 (29.57%) .NET Framework
3 14 (12.17%) WinForms
4 11 (9.57%) HTML
4 11 (9.57%) WPF
5 10 (8.70%) ASP.NET
5 10 (8.70%) CSS
5 10 (8.70%) REST
6 8 (6.96%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.96%) PySpark
6 8 (6.96%) React
6 8 (6.96%) SPFx
6 8 (6.96%) Web Services
7 7 (6.09%) XML
8 6 (5.22%) JSON
8 6 (5.22%) SOAP
9 5 (4.35%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.35%) Kafka
9 5 (4.35%) XSLT
10 4 (3.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.30%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.61%) Fixed Income
3 2 (1.74%) Credit Risk
3 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.74%) Derivative
3 2 (1.74%) Equities
3 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
3 2 (1.74%) NHS
3 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.87%) Eurex
4 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.87%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.83%) Windows
2 14 (12.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.48%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.91%) Data Analysis
2 37 (32.17%) Agile
3 32 (27.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 31 (26.96%) AI
4 31 (26.96%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (26.96%) ETL
5 30 (26.09%) DevOps
6 29 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (22.61%) CI/CD
8 23 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 22 (19.13%) Change Management
10 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (14.78%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (13.91%) Generative AI
12 15 (13.04%) Analytics
12 15 (13.04%) Unit Testing
13 13 (11.30%) Data Engineering
13 13 (11.30%) Data Integration
14 12 (10.43%) Migration
14 12 (10.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 111 (96.52%) SQL
2 60 (52.17%) C#
3 53 (46.09%) PL/SQL
4 26 (22.61%) Python
5 24 (20.87%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.17%) VBA
7 10 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.70%) VB
8 6 (5.22%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.22%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.35%) XPath
10 4 (3.48%) Java
11 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.87%) Bicep
12 1 (0.87%) Tcl
12 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.96%) Degree
3 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.87%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.74%) QA
2 17 (14.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.87%) Ansible
1 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (44.35%) Oracle
2 29 (25.22%) Citrix
3 25 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 14 (12.17%) Databricks
5 6 (5.22%) Sybase
6 5 (4.35%) OpenText
7 4 (3.48%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.48%) Intapp
8 1 (0.87%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.87%) Foundry
8 1 (0.87%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.87%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.87%) Palantir
8 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.87%) Tradeweb