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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 277 238
Rank change year-on-year -23 -39 -34
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 94 74 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.56% 0.59% 0.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.49% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 59 113
10th Percentile £350 £377 £375
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +8.11% -3.14%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £576
90th Percentile £650 £725 £648
England median daily rate £420 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -16.00% +11.11% -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 5,669 4,972 6,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.99% 39.31% 34.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,826 3,450 4,808
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 58
10th Percentile £23.43 £29.07 £25.67
25th Percentile £40.25 £38.22 £40.09
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.75 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -12.23% -9.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £73.50 £67.25 £70.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.38%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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% 3
West London -17 1 £550 +10.00% 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 18 (19.15%) IIS
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) Mule
4 1 (1.06%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) Alphatax
2 1 (1.06%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.06%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.36%) Azure
2 21 (22.34%) Power Platform
3 20 (21.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (19.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.38%) AWS
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (6.38%) GitHub
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.26%) Serverless
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.19%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.19%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.70%) Internet
2 2 (2.13%) DHCP
2 2 (2.13%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (82.98%) SQL Server
2 27 (28.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 23 (24.47%) Oracle Database
4 21 (22.34%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (15.96%) Power BI
6 13 (13.83%) Data Lake
6 13 (13.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (12.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.45%) Delta Lake
8 7 (7.45%) Spark SQL
9 5 (5.32%) Metadata
10 4 (4.26%) Star Schema
11 3 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.19%) DataStage
11 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (3.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (2.13%) Big Data
12 2 (2.13%) Data Vault
12 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.45%) Git
2 7 (7.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Mocha
3 3 (3.19%) MSTest
3 3 (3.19%) tSQLt
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.06%) ERwin
5 1 (1.06%) NUnit
5 1 (1.06%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.06%) Selenium
5 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 43 (45.74%) Finance
2 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.40%) Banking
4 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.32%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (58.51%) Developer
2 35 (37.23%) C# Developer
3 13 (13.83%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) .NET Developer
4 10 (10.64%) SQL Developer
5 8 (8.51%) Applications Developer
5 8 (8.51%) C# Application Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Senior
7 6 (6.38%) Architect
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Developer
7 6 (6.38%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Database Developer
7 6 (6.38%) SQL Database Developer
7 6 (6.38%) T-SQL Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Architect
9 4 (4.26%) DBA
9 4 (4.26%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (47.87%) .NET
2 34 (36.17%) .NET Framework
3 14 (14.89%) WinForms
4 13 (13.83%) WPF
5 7 (7.45%) JSON
6 6 (6.38%) CSS
6 6 (6.38%) HTML
7 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.32%) PySpark
7 5 (5.32%) React
7 5 (5.32%) REST
7 5 (5.32%) WCF
8 3 (3.19%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.19%) RESTful
8 3 (3.19%) SOAP
8 3 (3.19%) SPFx
8 3 (3.19%) XML
8 3 (3.19%) YAML
9 2 (2.13%) ADO
9 2 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Replication
1 8 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Wiki
4 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.19%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.13%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) Equities
6 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (38.30%) Windows
2 20 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (35.11%) Data Analysis
3 32 (34.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (29.79%) Agile
4 28 (29.79%) DevOps
5 27 (28.72%) CI/CD
6 25 (26.60%) ETL
7 23 (24.47%) Unit Testing
8 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (20.21%) Analytics
9 19 (20.21%) Change Management
10 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.09%) Dimensional Modelling
11 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (17.02%) Migration
11 16 (17.02%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (15.96%) Data Engineering
13 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
14 11 (11.70%) AI
15 10 (10.64%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 88 (93.62%) SQL
2 48 (51.06%) PL/SQL
3 47 (50.00%) C#
4 18 (19.15%) Python
5 13 (13.83%) PowerShell
6 12 (12.77%) VBA
7 11 (11.70%) VB
8 8 (8.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.26%) Bicep
11 2 (2.13%) Java
12 1 (1.06%) Bash
12 1 (1.06%) C
12 1 (1.06%) DataWeave
12 1 (1.06%) Groovy
12 1 (1.06%) Scala
12 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.06%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (39.36%) QA
2 12 (12.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS
4 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.06%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Control-M
1 1 (1.06%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (47.87%) Oracle
2 37 (39.36%) Microsoft
3 30 (31.91%) Citrix
4 15 (15.96%) Databricks
5 8 (8.51%) VMware
6 3 (3.19%) Sybase
7 2 (2.13%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.06%) HP
8 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk