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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 280 240
Rank change year-on-year -24 -40 -42
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 113 62 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.51% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.30% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 51 125
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £588
90th Percentile £680 £725 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% +7.37%

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 5,800 4,770 6,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 39.36% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 3,343 4,980
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 51
10th Percentile £32.93 £28.04 £23.80
25th Percentile £39.75 £32.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.16% -25.74% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £62.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -13 8 £550 -12.00% 4
East London -7 1 £500 -25.93%
West London -29 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 18 (15.93%) IIS
2 8 (7.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) Appian
3 3 (2.65%) Camunda
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.88%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.88%) Confluence
5 1 (0.88%) Mule
5 1 (0.88%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.88%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.94%) Azure
2 33 (29.20%) Power Platform
3 24 (21.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (18.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.85%) AWS
7 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (7.08%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.08%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (5.31%) GitHub
9 6 (5.31%) Serverless
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Storage
11 3 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.77%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (82.30%) SQL Server
2 30 (26.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 28 (24.78%) Oracle Database
4 22 (19.47%) Power BI
5 20 (17.70%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (14.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 16 (14.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (13.27%) Data Lake
8 8 (7.08%) Spark SQL
9 7 (6.19%) Delta Lake
10 6 (5.31%) DataStage
11 5 (4.42%) Metadata
12 4 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.77%) OLAP
14 2 (1.77%) Parquet
14 2 (1.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Visual Studio
2 8 (7.08%) Git
3 6 (5.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (4.42%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.42%) Mocha
4 5 (4.42%) MSTest
4 5 (4.42%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.77%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.88%) ERwin
6 1 (0.88%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.88%) Moq
6 1 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (43.36%) Finance
2 33 (29.20%) Banking
3 31 (27.43%) Social Skills
4 21 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.77%) Local Government
7 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (48.67%) Developer
2 30 (26.55%) C# Developer
3 23 (20.35%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.50%) SQL Developer
5 12 (10.62%) Senior
6 10 (8.85%) .NET Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Applications Developer
8 7 (6.19%) C# Application Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Architect
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Data Integration Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Database Developer
9 6 (5.31%) SQL Database Developer
9 6 (5.31%) T-SQL Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Lead
10 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) SharePoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (43.36%) .NET
2 35 (30.97%) .NET Framework
3 13 (11.50%) CSS
3 13 (11.50%) HTML
4 12 (10.62%) WinForms
5 11 (9.73%) WPF
6 8 (7.08%) React
6 8 (7.08%) REST
6 8 (7.08%) SPFx
7 7 (6.19%) JSON
8 6 (5.31%) PySpark
8 6 (5.31%) RESTful
9 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.42%) Kafka
10 4 (3.54%) Middleware
11 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (2.65%) XML
11 3 (2.65%) YAML
12 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.08%) Replication
3 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.54%) Wiki
5 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.77%) Clustering
6 2 (1.77%) Equities
6 2 (1.77%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.97%) Windows
2 17 (15.04%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.54%) Linux
4 2 (1.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.48%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (35.40%) Data Analysis
3 37 (32.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 31 (27.43%) Agile
5 30 (26.55%) ETL
6 29 (25.66%) DevOps
7 26 (23.01%) CI/CD
8 24 (21.24%) Change Management
8 24 (21.24%) Unit Testing
9 23 (20.35%) Data Modelling
10 22 (19.47%) Analytics
11 21 (18.58%) AI
11 21 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (17.70%) Data Engineering
13 17 (15.04%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (15.04%) Dimensional Modelling
13 17 (15.04%) Migration
13 17 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (11.50%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 108 (95.58%) SQL
2 59 (52.21%) PL/SQL
3 51 (45.13%) C#
4 26 (23.01%) Python
5 17 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
6 12 (10.62%) VBA
7 11 (9.73%) VB
8 10 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (2.65%) Bicep
9 3 (2.65%) Java
10 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.88%) Bash
11 1 (0.88%) C
11 1 (0.88%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.88%) Groovy
11 1 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (11.50%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) Azure Certification
2 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (32.74%) QA
2 21 (18.58%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) IFRS
4 1 (0.88%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) Control-M
2 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (46.90%) Oracle
2 33 (29.20%) Citrix
3 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
4 20 (17.70%) Databricks
5 6 (5.31%) Alteryx
5 6 (5.31%) VMware
6 3 (2.65%) OpenText
6 3 (2.65%) Sybase
7 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.88%) Foundry
7 1 (0.88%) Intapp
7 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.88%) Palantir
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk