T-SQL Contracts in London

Transact-SQL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring T-SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited T-SQL over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 229 205
Rank change year-on-year -46 -24 +42
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 73 158 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.87% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 2.50% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 109 289
10th Percentile £371 £385 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% -12.73%
75th Percentile £625 £585 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £733
England median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £36.00
England median hourly rate £32.96 £14.28 £35.00
% change year-on-year +130.85% -59.21% +12.00%

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 4,979 6,331 12,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.01% 34.89% 41.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 4,809 8,882
10th Percentile £375 £388 £420
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £573
% change year-on-year -2.42% -6.03% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 60 85
10th Percentile £29.91 £25.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £40.58 £49.25
Median hourly rate £46.50 £51.13 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -11.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £63.25 £60.44 £73.75
90th Percentile £93.75 £70.25 £81.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +26.00%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in London.

Daily rate trend for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in London over the 6 months to 20 March 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in London

T-SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing T-SQL in London.

Hourly rate trend for T-SQL in London

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 20 March 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 -16 12 £575 -4.17% 3
West London +12 1 £500 +11.61%
T-SQL
England

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (17.81%) IIS
2 6 (8.22%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.37%) Elite 3E
1 1 (1.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.37%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (45.21%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.44%) Serverless
5 11 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (12.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (9.59%) GCP
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Functions
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (8.22%) Snowflake
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Storage
9 5 (6.85%) GitHub
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.48%) dbt
11 3 (4.11%) Matillion
12 2 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) Internet
2 3 (4.11%) HTTP
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Intranet
3 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (65.75%) SQL Server
2 19 (26.03%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (20.55%) Oracle Database
4 14 (19.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (17.81%) Power BI
6 12 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (16.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
9 6 (8.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (6.85%) Data Lake
10 5 (6.85%) Tableau
11 4 (5.48%) DynamoDB
11 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
11 4 (5.48%) Spark SQL
12 3 (4.11%) Big Data
12 3 (4.11%) Metadata
12 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
12 3 (4.11%) OLAP
12 3 (4.11%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Git
2 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.11%) git-flow
3 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.74%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.37%) ERwin
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.37%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.37%) Subversion
5 1 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.37%) tSQLt
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.40%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Back Office
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (42.47%) Developer
2 18 (24.66%) Data Engineer
3 16 (21.92%) C# Developer
4 12 (16.44%) C# WPF Developer
4 12 (16.44%) WPF Developer
5 11 (15.07%) Senior
6 10 (13.70%) C# WCF Developer
6 10 (13.70%) WCF Developer
7 7 (9.59%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Analyst
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.85%) SQL Developer
10 4 (5.48%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (5.48%) DBA
10 4 (5.48%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 4 (5.48%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (43.84%) .NET
2 18 (24.66%) .NET Framework
3 12 (16.44%) WCF
3 12 (16.44%) WPF
4 11 (15.07%) .NET Core
5 10 (13.70%) WinForms
6 7 (9.59%) ASP.NET
6 7 (9.59%) REST
7 6 (8.22%) Blazor
7 6 (8.22%) CSS
7 6 (8.22%) HTML
7 6 (8.22%) Web Services
8 5 (6.85%) Node.js
8 5 (6.85%) SOAP
9 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (5.48%) AWS CDK
9 4 (5.48%) JSON
9 4 (5.48%) Redux
9 4 (5.48%) RESTful
9 4 (5.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.85%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.48%) Clustering
3 4 (5.48%) TWAP
3 4 (5.48%) VWAP
4 3 (4.11%) N-Tier
4 3 (4.11%) Replication
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) NHS
5 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.37%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.51%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Solaris
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Data Analysis
1 21 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.40%) ETL
3 18 (24.66%) Agile
3 18 (24.66%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
4 16 (21.92%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (17.81%) DevOps
5 13 (17.81%) Migration
6 12 (16.44%) Data Integration
7 11 (15.07%) Data Modelling
8 10 (13.70%) Data Management
9 9 (12.33%) Analytics
9 9 (12.33%) Data Engineering
10 8 (10.96%) Data Migration
10 8 (10.96%) Decision-Making
10 8 (10.96%) Visualisation
11 7 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (9.59%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) SQL
2 30 (41.10%) C#
3 26 (35.62%) Python
4 25 (34.25%) PL/SQL
5 18 (24.66%) JavaScript
6 11 (15.07%) VBA
7 10 (13.70%) VB
8 9 (12.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (8.22%) C++
9 6 (8.22%) Go
9 6 (8.22%) R
10 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (4.11%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (4.11%) Ruby
11 3 (4.11%) Scala
12 2 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (2.74%) Java
12 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.37%) Bicep
13 1 (1.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) MCPD
3 2 (2.74%) MCSD
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) ISEB
4 1 (1.37%) MCDBA
4 1 (1.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) QA
2 9 (12.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (10.96%) GDPR
4 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.74%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.37%) EMIR
6 1 (1.37%) HL7
6 1 (1.37%) MiFID
6 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.74%) Control-M
2 2 (2.74%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.37%) QRadar
3 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Oracle
2 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.70%) Citrix
4 6 (8.22%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 3 (4.11%) Talend
6 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.74%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.37%) BMC
7 1 (1.37%) EMC
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Informatica
7 1 (1.37%) Qualys
7 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.37%) RedGate
7 1 (1.37%) Reuters
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.37%) Splunk
7 1 (1.37%) Sybase