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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 310 214
Rank change year-on-year -17 -96 +11
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 120 63 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.47% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 1.21% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 55 141
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -19.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £668 £556 £625
90th Percentile £749 £665 £690
England median daily rate £453 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +0.61% -16.28% +9.14%

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 6,332 5,204 6,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.35% 38.64% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,260 3,576 4,703
10th Percentile £377 £375 £363
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £545
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 65 43
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.40
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.04
Median hourly rate £53.75 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.75 £59.47
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £78.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -12 13 £550 +60.58% 6
South London - 2 £725 - 3
East London +1 1 £500 -25.93% 1
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 20 (16.67%) IIS
2 14 (11.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.17%) Appian
3 5 (4.17%) Camunda
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.67%) Apache
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.83%) MTS
5 1 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.83%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.33%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.83%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 34 (28.33%) Power Platform
2 33 (27.50%) Azure
3 15 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (10.83%) AWS
5 11 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (9.17%) PowerApps
6 10 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.33%) Serverless
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.50%) Collibra
10 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.67%) dbt
11 2 (1.67%) GitHub
11 2 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (79.17%) SQL Server
2 30 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 27 (22.50%) Power BI
4 21 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (17.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.83%) Star Schema
8 6 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.17%) Metadata
9 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.33%) DataStage
10 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.33%) OLAP
10 4 (3.33%) Spark SQL
10 4 (3.33%) Tableau
11 3 (2.50%) Power Query
12 2 (1.67%) ClickHouse
12 2 (1.67%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.33%) JIRA
4 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.50%) Mocha
4 3 (2.50%) MSTest
4 3 (2.50%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) Moq
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (41.67%) Finance
2 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 34 (28.33%) Banking
4 27 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.00%) Front Office
6 4 (3.33%) Retail
7 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.67%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.83%) Back Office
9 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Publishing
9 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (54.17%) Developer
2 25 (20.83%) C# Developer
3 16 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) Senior
3 16 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 14 (11.67%) .NET Developer
5 12 (10.00%) Applications Support
6 9 (7.50%) Lead
7 7 (5.83%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Consultant
8 6 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Analyst
9 5 (4.17%) BPM Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 5 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) SharePoint Consultant
10 4 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (53.33%) .NET
2 33 (27.50%) .NET Framework
3 16 (13.33%) WinForms
4 13 (10.83%) WPF
5 11 (9.17%) HTML
6 10 (8.33%) ASP.NET
6 10 (8.33%) CSS
6 10 (8.33%) REST
7 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.67%) PySpark
7 8 (6.67%) Web Services
8 7 (5.83%) React
8 7 (5.83%) SPFx
8 7 (5.83%) XML
9 6 (5.00%) SOAP
10 5 (4.17%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.17%) Kafka
10 5 (4.17%) XSLT
11 4 (3.33%) JSON
11 4 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.67%) Derivative
5 2 (1.67%) Equities
5 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Replication
5 2 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.83%) Eurex
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.17%) Windows
2 17 (14.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.33%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.00%) Data Analysis
2 37 (30.83%) Agile
3 36 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.67%) AI
6 31 (25.83%) ETL
7 30 (25.00%) DevOps
8 28 (23.33%) CI/CD
9 25 (20.83%) Data Modelling
10 22 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (17.50%) Change Management
12 19 (15.83%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (13.33%) Generative AI
14 14 (11.67%) Analytics
14 14 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (10.00%) Data Governance
15 12 (10.00%) Data Integration
15 12 (10.00%) SDLC
15 12 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 116 (96.67%) SQL
2 66 (55.00%) C#
3 56 (46.67%) PL/SQL
4 26 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 25 (20.83%) Python
6 15 (12.50%) VBA
7 12 (10.00%) VB
8 10 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (4.17%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.17%) XPath
10 4 (3.33%) Java
10 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) Bicep
12 1 (0.83%) Tcl
12 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) Degree
2 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.00%) QA
2 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.83%) SCOM
1 1 (0.83%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 59 (49.17%) Oracle
2 28 (23.33%) Citrix
3 26 (21.67%) Microsoft
4 14 (11.67%) Databricks
5 5 (4.17%) OpenText
5 5 (4.17%) Sybase
6 4 (3.33%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.33%) Intapp
7 1 (0.83%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.83%) eFront
7 1 (0.83%) Foundry
7 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.83%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.83%) Palantir
7 1 (0.83%) RedGate
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.83%) Tradeweb