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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 284 244
Rank change year-on-year -23 -40 -30
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 108 66 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.52% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.31% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 52 114
10th Percentile £370 - £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £581 £628 £587
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
England median daily rate £417 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.56% +5.26% -

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 5,735 5,022 6,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.70% 39.40% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 3,519 4,870
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £700
90th Percentile £769 £825 £825
England median daily rate £502 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.48% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 30 57
10th Percentile £33.90 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £44.56 £35.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.88% -12.17%
75th Percentile £72.63 £60.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.25 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 4 £475 -17.39% 9
West London -26 1 £550 - 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 21 (19.44%) IIS
2 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.93%) Apache
5 1 (0.93%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) Mule
5 1 (0.93%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 14 (12.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 43 (39.81%) Azure
2 29 (26.85%) Power Platform
3 24 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (21.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (6.48%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.48%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.56%) AWS
7 6 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (5.56%) GitHub
8 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.70%) Serverless
9 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.78%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) DHCP
2 1 (0.93%) DNS
2 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 28 (25.93%) Oracle Database
2 28 (25.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 22 (20.37%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (17.59%) Power BI
5 16 (14.81%) Data Lake
6 14 (12.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.41%) Spark SQL
9 7 (6.48%) Delta Lake
10 6 (5.56%) Metadata
11 5 (4.63%) Star Schema
12 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (3.70%) DataStage
12 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (1.85%) OLAP
14 2 (1.85%) Parquet
14 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.48%) Git
2 7 (6.48%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) Mocha
3 3 (2.78%) MSTest
3 3 (2.78%) tSQLt
4 2 (1.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.93%) ERwin
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) NUnit
5 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 48 (44.44%) Finance
2 32 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 26 (24.07%) Banking
4 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Financial Institution
5 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.85%) Local Government
6 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (54.63%) Developer
2 38 (35.19%) C# Developer
3 17 (15.74%) Data Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) SQL Developer
5 10 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 8 (7.41%) Applications Developer
6 8 (7.41%) C# Application Developer
6 8 (7.41%) Senior
7 6 (5.56%) Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Azure Developer
7 6 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Consultant
7 6 (5.56%) Database Developer
7 6 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
7 6 (5.56%) T-SQL Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (45.37%) .NET
2 39 (36.11%) .NET Framework
3 16 (14.81%) WinForms
4 14 (12.96%) WPF
5 10 (9.26%) CSS
5 10 (9.26%) HTML
6 8 (7.41%) React
7 7 (6.48%) JSON
7 7 (6.48%) SPFx
8 6 (5.56%) PySpark
8 6 (5.56%) REST
9 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.78%) RESTful
10 3 (2.78%) WCF
10 3 (2.78%) YAML
11 2 (1.85%) HTML5
11 2 (1.85%) jQuery
11 2 (1.85%) Kafka
11 2 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.41%) Replication
3 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.70%) Wiki
5 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.85%) Clustering
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Equities
7 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.04%) Windows
2 20 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.15%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (37.96%) Data Analysis
3 39 (36.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (30.56%) Agile
5 31 (28.70%) DevOps
6 29 (26.85%) ETL
7 28 (25.93%) CI/CD
8 25 (23.15%) Change Management
9 24 (22.22%) Unit Testing
10 23 (21.30%) Analytics
11 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (17.59%) Dimensional Modelling
13 18 (16.67%) Data Engineering
13 18 (16.67%) Data Modelling
13 18 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (16.67%) Migration
14 16 (14.81%) AI
14 16 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (11.11%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 103 (95.37%) SQL
2 60 (55.56%) PL/SQL
3 53 (49.07%) C#
4 20 (18.52%) Python
5 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 14 (12.96%) VBA
6 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
6 13 (12.04%) VB
7 9 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.63%) Bicep
9 2 (1.85%) Java
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.93%) Groovy
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (12.96%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (38.89%) QA
2 16 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) IFRS
4 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 55 (50.93%) Oracle
2 37 (34.26%) Microsoft
3 35 (32.41%) Citrix
4 18 (16.67%) Databricks
5 7 (6.48%) VMware
6 3 (2.78%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.85%) Sybase
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk