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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 265 227
Rank change year-on-year -44 -38 -31
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 68 102 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.69% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 1.79% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 77 111
10th Percentile £322 £363 -
25th Percentile £404 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.83% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £537 £623 £610
90th Percentile £675 £738 £694
England median daily rate £415 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 5,392 5,688 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.32% 38.30% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,624 3,821 5,023
10th Percentile £363 £373 £394
25th Percentile £426 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 38 65
10th Percentile £25.69 £35.53 £26.24
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.56 £67.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -17 4 £350 -39.13% 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 15 (22.06%) IIS
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.47%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) Azure
2 15 (22.06%) Azure Data Factory
2 15 (22.06%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (5.88%) GitHub
5 3 (4.41%) AWS
5 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (4.41%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.24%) Internet
2 2 (2.94%) DHCP
2 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (83.82%) SQL Server
2 19 (27.94%) Oracle Database
3 17 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (22.06%) Power BI
5 10 (14.71%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (5.88%) DataStage
7 4 (5.88%) Power Query
7 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (5.88%) Star Schema
8 3 (4.41%) Data Vault
8 3 (4.41%) Delta Lake
8 3 (4.41%) Spark SQL
9 2 (2.94%) Metadata
9 2 (2.94%) OLAP Cube
9 2 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (8.82%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Moq
5 1 (1.47%) NUnit
5 1 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.47%) Selenium
5 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 31 (45.59%) Finance
2 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.59%) Banking
4 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.94%) Back Office
7 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Front Office
7 2 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (70.59%) Developer
2 26 (38.24%) C# Developer
3 12 (17.65%) .NET Developer
4 8 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 7 (10.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (10.29%) C# WCF Developer
5 7 (10.29%) C# WPF Developer
5 7 (10.29%) WCF Developer
5 7 (10.29%) WPF Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) ETL Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Report Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (50.00%) .NET
2 23 (33.82%) .NET Framework
3 12 (17.65%) WinForms
3 12 (17.65%) WPF
4 9 (13.24%) WCF
5 6 (8.82%) Kafka
6 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (7.35%) JSON
6 5 (7.35%) React
6 5 (7.35%) XML
7 4 (5.88%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.88%) Middleware
7 4 (5.88%) Web Services
8 3 (4.41%) PySpark
8 3 (4.41%) RESTful
9 2 (2.94%) ADO
9 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.94%) Express.js
9 2 (2.94%) REST
9 2 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.47%) Clustering
4 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.47%) IoT
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) NHS
4 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Windows
2 12 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (35.29%) Data Analysis
3 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
4 21 (30.88%) ETL
5 19 (27.94%) DevOps
6 18 (26.47%) Agile
7 17 (25.00%) Analytics
8 16 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.12%) Data Modelling
10 12 (17.65%) Data Engineering
10 12 (17.65%) Migration
11 11 (16.18%) Data Governance
11 11 (16.18%) OO
11 11 (16.18%) OOP
12 9 (13.24%) Change Management
12 9 (13.24%) Data Integration
12 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (97.06%) SQL
2 35 (51.47%) C#
3 30 (44.12%) PL/SQL
4 13 (19.12%) VBA
5 12 (17.65%) Python
6 9 (13.24%) VB
7 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
8 6 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.94%) Bicep
11 1 (1.47%) Scala
11 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) HP APS
6 1 (1.47%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (29.41%) QA
2 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.41%) MiFID
4 2 (2.94%) EMIR
5 1 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Control-M
1 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 31 (45.59%) Oracle
2 29 (42.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (27.94%) Citrix
4 13 (19.12%) Databricks
5 6 (8.82%) VMware
6 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.41%) Alteryx
7 3 (4.41%) EMC
8 2 (2.94%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.94%) CQG
8 2 (2.94%) SAP
8 2 (2.94%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.47%) HP
9 1 (1.47%) Okta
9 1 (1.47%) Sybase
9 1 (1.47%) Workday