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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 305 240
Rank change year-on-year -24 -65 -15
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 123 64 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.47% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.23% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 56 130
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £410 £404 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -19.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £668 £564 £637
90th Percentile £738 £663 £695
England median daily rate £453 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +0.56% -18.18% +15.79%

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 6,381 5,211 6,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 38.65% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,316 3,575 4,627
10th Percentile £375 £375 £364
25th Percentile £450 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 64 47
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £25.69
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £35.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.20 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -6.95% -17.39%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.38 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

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 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 26 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 -18 13 £550 +60.58% 8
South London - 2 £725 - 2
East London +1 1 £500 -25.93%
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 (15.45%) IIS
2 12 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.07%) Appian
3 5 (4.07%) Camunda
3 5 (4.07%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.44%) Confluence
5 2 (1.63%) Apache
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.81%) MTS
6 1 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (13.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.69%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.69%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.25%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.63%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.81%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 36 (29.27%) Azure
2 33 (26.83%) Power Platform
3 15 (12.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (11.38%) AWS
5 11 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.32%) PowerApps
7 8 (6.50%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.25%) GitHub
9 4 (3.25%) Serverless
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.63%) Collibra
11 2 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (78.86%) SQL Server
2 29 (23.58%) Oracle Database
3 28 (22.76%) Power BI
4 20 (16.26%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (16.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 16 (13.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (8.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.69%) Star Schema
8 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.25%) DataStage
10 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.25%) OLAP
10 4 (3.25%) Spark SQL
10 4 (3.25%) Tableau
11 3 (2.44%) Metadata
11 3 (2.44%) MySQL
11 3 (2.44%) Power Query
11 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Git
2 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.07%) JIRA
4 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.44%) Mocha
4 3 (2.44%) MSTest
4 3 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.44%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.63%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.81%) Moq
6 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (41.46%) Finance
2 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
3 33 (26.83%) Banking
4 28 (22.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Front Office
6 4 (3.25%) Retail
7 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.63%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.81%) Back Office
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Publishing
9 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (52.85%) Developer
2 25 (20.33%) C# Developer
3 17 (13.82%) Senior
4 16 (13.01%) Data Engineer
4 16 (13.01%) SQL Developer
5 15 (12.20%) Applications Support
6 14 (11.38%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Consultant
8 6 (4.88%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.07%) BPM Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (4.07%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Lead .NET Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (53.66%) .NET
2 32 (26.02%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.20%) WinForms
4 12 (9.76%) WPF
5 11 (8.94%) HTML
6 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
6 10 (8.13%) CSS
6 10 (8.13%) Web Services
7 9 (7.32%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.32%) REST
7 9 (7.32%) XML
8 8 (6.50%) PySpark
8 8 (6.50%) SOAP
9 7 (5.69%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.69%) React
10 6 (4.88%) RESTful
11 5 (4.07%) JSON
11 5 (4.07%) Kafka
11 5 (4.07%) SPFx
11 5 (4.07%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.25%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.44%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.44%) Derivative
4 3 (2.44%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.63%) Equities
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.63%) Replication
5 2 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) Eurex
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (34.96%) Windows
2 20 (16.26%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.07%) Linux
4 4 (3.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.15%) Data Analysis
2 37 (30.08%) Agile
3 36 (29.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (26.83%) AI
6 32 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (24.39%) DevOps
8 29 (23.58%) ETL
9 28 (22.76%) CI/CD
10 26 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (19.51%) Data Modelling
12 19 (15.45%) Change Management
13 18 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (13.82%) Generative AI
15 16 (13.01%) SDLC
15 16 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (11.38%) Analytics
16 14 (11.38%) Unit Testing
17 12 (9.76%) Data Engineering
17 12 (9.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (97.56%) SQL
2 68 (55.28%) C#
3 53 (43.09%) PL/SQL
4 26 (21.14%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.14%) Python
5 14 (11.38%) VBA
6 11 (8.94%) VB
7 10 (8.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.07%) VB.NET
8 5 (4.07%) XPath
9 4 (3.25%) Java
9 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.63%) Bash
10 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) Tcl
11 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.32%) Degree
2 7 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.07%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.81%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.70%) QA
2 16 (13.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.81%) ITGC
System Software
1 5 (4.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.81%) Ansible
1 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.81%) SCOM
1 1 (0.81%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 57 (46.34%) Oracle
2 28 (22.76%) Microsoft
3 27 (21.95%) Citrix
4 15 (12.20%) Databricks
5 5 (4.07%) OpenText
5 5 (4.07%) Sybase
6 4 (3.25%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.25%) Intapp
7 2 (1.63%) eFront
8 1 (0.81%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.81%) Foundry
8 1 (0.81%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.81%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.81%) Palantir
8 1 (0.81%) RedGate
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.81%) Tradeweb