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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 309 226
Rank change year-on-year -16 -83 -9
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 119 64 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.48% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.25% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 60 143
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -18.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £667 £556 £631
90th Percentile £756 £653 £728
England median daily rate £453 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +0.67% -16.28% +7.50%

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 6,325 5,110 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 38.54% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,248 3,553 4,718
10th Percentile £381 £375 £370
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £705
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £40.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -9.70% -17.79%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -7 13 £550 +34.15% 5
South London - 2 £725 - 3
East London +1 1 £500 -25.93% 4
North London - 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 19 (15.97%) IIS
2 15 (12.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.20%) Appian
3 5 (4.20%) Camunda
3 5 (4.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.68%) Apache
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.84%) MTS
5 1 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.88%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.88%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.36%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.25%) Power Platform
2 34 (28.57%) Azure
3 18 (15.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (12.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (10.08%) AWS
5 12 (10.08%) PowerApps
6 11 (9.24%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (3.36%) Serverless
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.52%) Collibra
10 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.68%) dbt
11 2 (1.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (78.15%) SQL Server
2 29 (24.37%) Oracle Database
3 28 (23.53%) Power BI
4 22 (18.49%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (16.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (9.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (6.72%) Star Schema
9 7 (5.88%) Data Lake
10 6 (5.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 5 (4.20%) Spark SQL
12 4 (3.36%) DataStage
12 4 (3.36%) Metadata
12 4 (3.36%) OLAP
12 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (3.36%) Tableau
13 3 (2.52%) Power Query
13 3 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (1.68%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Git
2 6 (5.04%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.36%) JIRA
4 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.52%) Mocha
4 3 (2.52%) MSTest
4 3 (2.52%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.84%) Moq
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (43.70%) Finance
2 44 (36.97%) Social Skills
3 35 (29.41%) Banking
4 27 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.04%) Front Office
6 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.36%) Retail
7 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.52%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.68%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.84%) Back Office
9 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.84%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Publishing
9 1 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (54.62%) Developer
2 24 (20.17%) C# Developer
3 16 (13.45%) Senior
3 16 (13.45%) SQL Developer
4 15 (12.61%) Data Engineer
5 14 (11.76%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.56%) Applications Support
6 9 (7.56%) Lead
7 7 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Consultant
8 6 (5.04%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Analyst
9 5 (4.20%) BPM Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
9 5 (4.20%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.20%) SharePoint Consultant
10 4 (3.36%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (51.26%) .NET
2 32 (26.89%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.61%) WinForms
4 12 (10.08%) WPF
5 11 (9.24%) HTML
6 10 (8.40%) ASP.NET
6 10 (8.40%) CSS
6 10 (8.40%) REST
7 9 (7.56%) PySpark
8 8 (6.72%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.72%) React
8 8 (6.72%) SPFx
8 8 (6.72%) Web Services
9 7 (5.88%) XML
10 6 (5.04%) JSON
10 6 (5.04%) SOAP
11 5 (4.20%) .NET Core
11 5 (4.20%) Kafka
11 5 (4.20%) XSLT
12 4 (3.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.52%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.68%) Derivative
5 2 (1.68%) Equities
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.68%) Replication
5 2 (1.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.84%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Eurex
6 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (31.09%) Windows
2 16 (13.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.36%) Unix
4 3 (2.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.45%) Data Analysis
2 39 (32.77%) Agile
3 34 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 32 (26.89%) AI
4 32 (26.89%) DevOps
4 32 (26.89%) ETL
4 32 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 25 (21.01%) Data Modelling
7 22 (18.49%) Change Management
8 21 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.81%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (13.45%) Analytics
10 16 (13.45%) Generative AI
11 14 (11.76%) Data Engineering
12 13 (10.92%) Data Integration
13 12 (10.08%) Data Governance
13 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (96.64%) SQL
2 63 (52.94%) C#
3 54 (45.38%) PL/SQL
4 27 (22.69%) Python
5 25 (21.01%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.76%) VBA
7 12 (10.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (9.24%) VB
9 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.20%) VB.NET
10 5 (4.20%) XPath
11 4 (3.36%) Java
12 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.84%) Bicep
13 1 (0.84%) Tcl
13 1 (0.84%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.56%) Degree
1 9 (7.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) QA
2 19 (15.97%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.20%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) Ansible
1 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.84%) SCOM
1 1 (0.84%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 55 (46.22%) Oracle
2 29 (24.37%) Microsoft
3 27 (22.69%) Citrix
4 15 (12.61%) Databricks
5 5 (4.20%) OpenText
5 5 (4.20%) Sybase
6 4 (3.36%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.36%) Intapp
7 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.84%) Foundry
7 1 (0.84%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.84%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.84%) Palantir
7 1 (0.84%) RedGate
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.84%) Tradeweb