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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 287 241
Rank change year-on-year -2 -46 -30
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 127 63 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.50% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.11% 1.26% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 56 137
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -12.50% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £613
90th Percentile £750 £700 £680
England median daily rate £453 £456 £525
% change year-on-year -0.71% -13.10% +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 6,023 5,013 6,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 39.48% 38.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 3,522 5,105
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £446 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £518 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.48% -3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 45 51
10th Percentile £33.21 £28.04 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £57.77 £40.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.63% -19.80% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.00 £61.97
90th Percentile £89.00 £83.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -14.06% +2.40%

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 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 26 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 -9 12 £645 -2.64% 5
East London -1 1 £500 -25.93%
West London -24 1 £550 -
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 17 (13.39%) IIS
2 10 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.94%) Appian
3 5 (3.94%) Camunda
3 5 (3.94%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.79%) Confluence
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 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (3.94%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.15%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.57%) 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 43 (33.86%) Azure
2 37 (29.13%) Power Platform
3 21 (16.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (13.39%) AWS
4 17 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.09%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (6.30%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.30%) Serverless
8 7 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (3.94%) GitHub
10 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.57%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (81.10%) SQL Server
2 31 (24.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 29 (22.83%) Oracle Database
4 27 (21.26%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (20.47%) Power BI
6 23 (18.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (11.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 13 (10.24%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (4.72%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.94%) DataStage
11 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (3.15%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.15%) Metadata
13 3 (2.36%) OLAP
13 3 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.36%) Star Schema
14 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 2 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.09%) Git
1 9 (7.09%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.72%) Cucumber
2 6 (4.72%) Mocha
2 6 (4.72%) MSTest
2 6 (4.72%) tSQLt
3 5 (3.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.57%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.79%) ERwin
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Moq
5 1 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (44.09%) Finance
2 39 (30.71%) Banking
2 39 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.57%) Local Government
6 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Front Office
6 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.79%) Legal
6 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (54.33%) Developer
2 30 (23.62%) C# Developer
3 23 (18.11%) Data Engineer
4 21 (16.54%) SQL Developer
5 18 (14.17%) Senior
6 13 (10.24%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.30%) Lead
8 7 (5.51%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.72%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Consultant
9 6 (4.72%) Database Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Lead .NET Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Lead Developer
9 6 (4.72%) SQL Database Developer
10 5 (3.94%) Data Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) DBA
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (46.46%) .NET
2 36 (28.35%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.02%) CSS
3 14 (11.02%) HTML
4 12 (9.45%) REST
4 12 (9.45%) WinForms
5 11 (8.66%) WPF
6 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.30%) PySpark
6 8 (6.30%) React
6 8 (6.30%) SPFx
6 8 (6.30%) XML
7 7 (5.51%) RESTful
8 6 (4.72%) JSON
8 6 (4.72%) Web Services
9 5 (3.94%) ASP.NET
9 5 (3.94%) Kafka
9 5 (3.94%) SOAP
10 4 (3.15%) Middleware
10 4 (3.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.02%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.51%) Replication
3 5 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.15%) Reinsurance
4 4 (3.15%) Wiki
5 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
5 3 (2.36%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.57%) Clustering
6 2 (1.57%) NHS
6 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.79%) Derivative
7 1 (0.79%) Life Science
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.77%) Windows
2 15 (11.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.15%) Linux
4 2 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.80%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (31.50%) Data Analysis
3 38 (29.92%) Agile
4 37 (29.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 37 (29.13%) ETL
5 33 (25.98%) DevOps
6 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (22.05%) CI/CD
8 25 (19.69%) Data Modelling
8 25 (19.69%) Unit Testing
9 24 (18.90%) AI
9 24 (18.90%) Change Management
10 23 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (17.32%) Analytics
11 22 (17.32%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (15.75%) Migration
13 19 (14.96%) Data Engineering
14 18 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (10.24%) Data Integration
16 12 (9.45%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 122 (96.06%) SQL
2 60 (47.24%) C#
3 59 (46.46%) PL/SQL
4 28 (22.05%) Python
5 21 (16.54%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (9.45%) VBA
7 11 (8.66%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.87%) VB
9 5 (3.94%) VB.NET
10 4 (3.15%) Java
10 4 (3.15%) XPath
11 3 (2.36%) Bicep
12 1 (0.79%) Bash
12 1 (0.79%) C
12 1 (0.79%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.79%) Groovy
12 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (9.45%) Degree
2 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.35%) QA
2 20 (15.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) IFRS
4 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Control-M
2 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (42.52%) Oracle
2 34 (26.77%) Microsoft
3 33 (25.98%) Citrix
4 16 (12.60%) Databricks
5 5 (3.94%) Alteryx
5 5 (3.94%) OpenText
5 5 (3.94%) VMware
6 4 (3.15%) Intapp
6 4 (3.15%) Sybase
7 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.79%) Foundry
7 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.79%) Palantir
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk