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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 296 237
Rank change year-on-year -2 -59 -30
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 124 62 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.50% 0.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.27% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 55 138
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £601
90th Percentile £743 £705 £679
England median daily rate £453 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% -11.90% +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 5,921 4,893 6,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.30% 39.56% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,945 3,443 5,050
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £702 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £514 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.25% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 42 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £29.01 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.75 £33.25 £34.99
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.25 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -19.90% -16.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £57.81 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.00 £85.63 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 11 £635 -4.15% 4
East London -3 1 £500 -25.93%
West London -21 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 16 (12.90%) IIS
2 9 (7.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.23%) Appian
3 4 (3.23%) Camunda
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.81%) Confluence
6 1 (0.81%) Mule
6 1 (0.81%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.61%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.81%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.81%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.48%) Azure
2 38 (30.65%) Power Platform
3 23 (18.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (15.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (12.90%) AWS
6 13 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.26%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (6.45%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.45%) Serverless
9 7 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.03%) GitHub
12 3 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.61%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (82.26%) SQL Server
2 35 (28.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 28 (22.58%) Oracle Database
4 27 (21.77%) Power BI
5 23 (18.55%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (16.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (12.90%) Data Lake
8 15 (12.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (7.26%) Spark SQL
10 7 (5.65%) Delta Lake
11 6 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (4.84%) DataStage
12 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.23%) Metadata
12 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.61%) Parquet
13 2 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Git
1 9 (7.26%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.84%) Cucumber
2 6 (4.84%) Mocha
2 6 (4.84%) MSTest
2 6 (4.84%) tSQLt
3 5 (4.03%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.81%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.81%) ERwin
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) Moq
5 1 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (43.55%) Finance
2 36 (29.03%) Banking
3 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
4 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Legal
7 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (51.61%) Developer
2 29 (23.39%) C# Developer
3 23 (18.55%) Data Engineer
4 20 (16.13%) SQL Developer
5 15 (12.10%) Senior
6 13 (10.48%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Lead
8 7 (5.65%) Architect
9 6 (4.84%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.84%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Consultant
9 6 (4.84%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.84%) Data Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Lead .NET Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (43.55%) .NET
2 34 (27.42%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.29%) CSS
3 14 (11.29%) HTML
4 11 (8.87%) WinForms
4 11 (8.87%) WPF
5 10 (8.06%) REST
6 8 (6.45%) React
6 8 (6.45%) SPFx
7 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.65%) PySpark
7 7 (5.65%) RESTful
8 6 (4.84%) JSON
8 6 (4.84%) XML
9 5 (4.03%) Kafka
10 4 (3.23%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.23%) Middleware
11 3 (2.42%) jQuery
11 3 (2.42%) SOAP
11 3 (2.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.48%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.65%) Replication
3 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.23%) Reinsurance
4 4 (3.23%) Wiki
5 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.42%) Equities
5 3 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.61%) Clustering
6 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.81%) Derivative
7 1 (0.81%) Life Science
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.61%) Windows
2 15 (12.10%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.23%) Linux
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.32%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (31.45%) Data Analysis
3 36 (29.03%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (28.23%) Agile
4 35 (28.23%) ETL
5 32 (25.81%) DevOps
6 28 (22.58%) CI/CD
7 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.35%) Change Management
8 24 (19.35%) Data Modelling
8 24 (19.35%) Unit Testing
9 23 (18.55%) Analytics
10 22 (17.74%) AI
11 21 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (16.94%) Data Engineering
12 20 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (14.52%) Migration
14 17 (13.71%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (12.90%) Dimensional Modelling
16 14 (11.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 119 (95.97%) SQL
2 59 (47.58%) PL/SQL
3 57 (45.97%) C#
4 30 (24.19%) Python
5 20 (16.13%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
7 12 (9.68%) VBA
8 11 (8.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (8.06%) VB
10 4 (3.23%) Java
11 3 (2.42%) Bicep
11 3 (2.42%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.61%) XPath
13 1 (0.81%) Bash
13 1 (0.81%) C
13 1 (0.81%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.81%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (10.48%) Degree
2 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.81%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (29.03%) QA
2 20 (16.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) IFRS
4 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.61%) Terraform
2 1 (0.81%) Ansible
2 1 (0.81%) Control-M
2 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (42.74%) Oracle
2 36 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 32 (25.81%) Citrix
4 19 (15.32%) Databricks
5 6 (4.84%) Alteryx
6 5 (4.03%) VMware
7 4 (3.23%) OpenText
7 4 (3.23%) Sybase
8 2 (1.61%) Intapp
9 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.81%) Foundry
9 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.81%) Palantir
9 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) Splunk