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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 294 225
Rank change year-on-year -31 -69 -10
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 117 73 174
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.54% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.41% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 66 147
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £389 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £665 £625 £631
90th Percentile £760 £675 £738
England median daily rate £453 £494 £531
% change year-on-year -8.25% -7.06% +10.68%

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 6,303 5,161 6,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.40% 38.39% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,230 3,605 4,807
10th Percentile £383 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.86 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.14%

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 19 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 19 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 -1 13 £625 - 3
South London - 2 £725 - 2
East London -2 1 £500 -25.93% 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 19 (16.24%) IIS
2 13 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.27%) Appian
3 5 (4.27%) Camunda
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.71%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.85%) MTS
6 1 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.98%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.98%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.42%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.85%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.06%) Azure
2 32 (27.35%) Power Platform
3 19 (16.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (12.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (11.97%) AWS
6 11 (9.40%) PowerApps
7 10 (8.55%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.27%) Serverless
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.56%) Collibra
11 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.71%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.71%) dbt
12 2 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (79.49%) SQL Server
2 31 (26.50%) Oracle Database
3 24 (20.51%) Power BI
4 22 (18.80%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (18.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (13.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (6.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (6.84%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (5.13%) Star Schema
8 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.27%) Metadata
9 4 (3.42%) DataStage
9 4 (3.42%) OLAP
9 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.42%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.56%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (1.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.42%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.42%) JIRA
3 4 (3.42%) Mocha
3 4 (3.42%) MSTest
3 4 (3.42%) tSQLt
4 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) Moq
5 1 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (44.44%) Finance
2 44 (37.61%) Social Skills
3 38 (32.48%) Banking
4 23 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.42%) Front Office
7 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Back Office
9 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Local Government
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (58.12%) Developer
2 28 (23.93%) C# Developer
3 17 (14.53%) .NET Developer
3 17 (14.53%) Senior
3 17 (14.53%) SQL Developer
4 15 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Lead
6 7 (5.98%) Consultant
6 7 (5.98%) Integration Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Lead Developer
7 6 (5.13%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Lead .NET Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Applications Support
8 5 (4.27%) BPM Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
8 5 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) SharePoint Consultant
8 5 (4.27%) SQL Server Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Data Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (52.14%) .NET
2 36 (30.77%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.97%) WinForms
4 12 (10.26%) HTML
5 11 (9.40%) CSS
5 11 (9.40%) REST
5 11 (9.40%) WPF
6 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.84%) PySpark
8 8 (6.84%) React
8 8 (6.84%) SPFx
8 8 (6.84%) Web Services
9 7 (5.98%) XML
10 6 (5.13%) JSON
10 6 (5.13%) SOAP
11 5 (4.27%) Kafka
11 5 (4.27%) RESTful
11 5 (4.27%) XSLT
12 4 (3.42%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.56%) Fixed Income
3 2 (1.71%) Credit Risk
3 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.71%) Derivative
3 2 (1.71%) Equities
3 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.71%) NHS
3 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.71%) Reference Data
3 2 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.85%) Eurex
4 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.06%) Windows
2 15 (12.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.42%) Linux
3 4 (3.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (34.19%) Data Analysis
2 38 (32.48%) Agile
3 34 (29.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (28.21%) DevOps
4 33 (28.21%) ETL
5 32 (27.35%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (26.50%) AI
7 29 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (23.93%) CI/CD
9 25 (21.37%) Data Modelling
10 22 (18.80%) Change Management
11 18 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (15.38%) Unit Testing
12 16 (13.68%) Analytics
13 15 (12.82%) Generative AI
14 13 (11.11%) Data Engineering
14 13 (11.11%) Data Integration
14 13 (11.11%) Migration
15 11 (9.40%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 112 (95.73%) SQL
2 62 (52.99%) C#
3 57 (48.72%) PL/SQL
4 26 (22.22%) Python
5 24 (20.51%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.97%) VBA
7 10 (8.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.55%) VB
8 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.13%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.27%) XPath
10 4 (3.42%) Java
11 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.85%) Bicep
12 1 (0.85%) C
12 1 (0.85%) Tcl
12 1 (0.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.84%) Degree
3 5 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.08%) QA
2 18 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Ansible
1 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (46.15%) Oracle
2 30 (25.64%) Citrix
3 25 (21.37%) Microsoft
4 15 (12.82%) Databricks
5 6 (5.13%) Sybase
6 5 (4.27%) OpenText
7 4 (3.42%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.42%) Intapp
8 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.85%) Foundry
8 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.85%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.85%) Palantir
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Tradeweb