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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 296 225
Rank change year-on-year -17 -71 -12
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 126 75 173
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.55% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.43% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 67 142
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £675 £733
England median daily rate £453 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +10.53%

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 6,235 5,253 6,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.15% 38.63% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 3,696 4,894
10th Percentile £385 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £427 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 49 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £53.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -6.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £60.45
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -4 15 £588 -6.00% 3
East London +2 1 £500 -25.93% 2
West London -19 1 £550 - 2
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 (15.87%) IIS
2 13 (10.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.97%) Appian
3 5 (3.97%) Camunda
3 5 (3.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.59%) Apache
5 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.59%) Confluence
6 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) Mule
6 1 (0.79%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.56%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.17%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.79%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.79%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (31.75%) Azure
2 38 (30.16%) Power Platform
3 21 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (13.49%) AWS
4 17 (13.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (8.73%) PowerApps
6 10 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.94%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.56%) Serverless
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.59%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.59%) Collibra
12 2 (1.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (81.75%) SQL Server
2 32 (25.40%) Oracle Database
3 29 (23.02%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (23.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 27 (21.43%) Power BI
5 22 (17.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 14 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (7.94%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.76%) Star Schema
9 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.17%) DataStage
10 4 (3.17%) Metadata
10 4 (3.17%) OLAP
10 4 (3.17%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.38%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.59%) MS Access
12 2 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Git
2 6 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 6 (4.76%) Mocha
2 6 (4.76%) MSTest
2 6 (4.76%) tSQLt
2 6 (4.76%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.38%) JIRA
3 3 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.79%) ERwin
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) Moq
4 1 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (43.65%) Finance
2 47 (37.30%) Social Skills
3 40 (31.75%) Banking
4 27 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.59%) Front Office
7 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Local Government
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.79%) Legal
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (53.17%) Developer
2 29 (23.02%) C# Developer
3 20 (15.87%) Data Engineer
3 20 (15.87%) SQL Developer
4 18 (14.29%) Senior
5 15 (11.90%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.14%) Lead
7 7 (5.56%) Consultant
7 7 (5.56%) Lead Developer
8 6 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.97%) BPM Developer
9 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) SharePoint Consultant
9 5 (3.97%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (48.41%) .NET
2 35 (27.78%) .NET Framework
3 15 (11.90%) HTML
3 15 (11.90%) WinForms
4 14 (11.11%) CSS
5 12 (9.52%) REST
5 12 (9.52%) WPF
6 9 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 9 (7.14%) XML
7 8 (6.35%) ASP.NET
7 8 (6.35%) PySpark
7 8 (6.35%) React
7 8 (6.35%) SPFx
8 7 (5.56%) JSON
8 7 (5.56%) RESTful
9 6 (4.76%) Web Services
10 5 (3.97%) Kafka
10 5 (3.97%) SOAP
10 5 (3.97%) XSLT
11 4 (3.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.97%) Replication
3 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.17%) Wiki
4 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.38%) Equities
4 3 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.38%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.59%) Clustering
5 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.59%) Derivative
5 2 (1.59%) NHS
5 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.79%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.57%) Windows
2 15 (11.90%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.17%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) Agile
2 41 (32.54%) Business Intelligence
3 40 (31.75%) Data Analysis
4 36 (28.57%) ETL
5 35 (27.78%) DevOps
5 35 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (23.02%) AI
7 29 (23.02%) CI/CD
8 26 (20.63%) Data Modelling
9 23 (18.25%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (17.46%) Change Management
11 21 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 18 (14.29%) Data Engineering
13 17 (13.49%) Analytics
13 17 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (12.70%) Migration
15 12 (9.52%) Data Integration
15 12 (9.52%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 121 (96.03%) SQL
2 63 (50.00%) C#
3 60 (47.62%) PL/SQL
4 25 (19.84%) Python
5 24 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (11.11%) VBA
7 11 (8.73%) VB
8 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.76%) VB.NET
10 5 (3.97%) XPath
11 4 (3.17%) Java
12 3 (2.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.79%) Bash
13 1 (0.79%) C
13 1 (0.79%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.79%) Groovy
13 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.35%) Degree
3 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (26.19%) QA
2 18 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.17%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) IFRS
4 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) Ansible
1 1 (0.79%) Control-M
1 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (43.65%) Oracle
2 34 (26.98%) Microsoft
3 31 (24.60%) Citrix
4 15 (11.90%) Databricks
5 5 (3.97%) OpenText
6 4 (3.17%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.17%) Intapp
6 4 (3.17%) Sybase
7 2 (1.59%) VMware
8 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.79%) Splunk