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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 286 222
Rank change year-on-year -38 -64 -4
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 120 74 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.55% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 1.42% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 66 143
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £631
90th Percentile £753 £675 £728
England median daily rate £453 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -8.25% -5.95% +5.00%

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 6,296 5,217 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.23% 38.44% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,210 3,663 4,811
10th Percentile £378 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 43
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.64 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -7.37% -21.11%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -11 15 £588 -6.00% 2
East London +3 1 £500 -25.93% 5
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 20 (16.67%) IIS
2 13 (10.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.17%) Appian
3 5 (4.17%) Camunda
3 5 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.67%) Apache
5 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.83%) MTS
6 1 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.83%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.33%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.83%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.83%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.83%) Azure
1 37 (30.83%) Power Platform
2 20 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 17 (14.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (12.50%) AWS
5 11 (9.17%) PowerApps
6 10 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 9 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.00%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.67%) Collibra
13 2 (1.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (81.67%) SQL Server
2 32 (26.67%) Oracle Database
3 27 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (21.67%) Power BI
4 26 (21.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (15.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (8.33%) Data Lake
8 9 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (5.00%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.33%) DataStage
11 4 (3.33%) Metadata
11 4 (3.33%) OLAP
11 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (3.33%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.67%) MS Access
13 2 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 5 (4.17%) Mocha
3 5 (4.17%) MSTest
3 5 (4.17%) tSQLt
4 4 (3.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.83%) ERwin
6 1 (0.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) Moq
6 1 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (44.17%) Finance
2 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 38 (31.67%) Banking
4 26 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.50%) Front Office
6 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Local Government
7 2 (1.67%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (54.17%) Developer
2 29 (24.17%) C# Developer
3 20 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 18 (15.00%) SQL Developer
5 17 (14.17%) Senior
6 15 (12.50%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) Consultant
8 7 (5.83%) Lead Developer
9 6 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.17%) BPM Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) SharePoint Consultant
10 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (50.00%) .NET
2 35 (29.17%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.50%) WinForms
4 13 (10.83%) HTML
5 12 (10.00%) CSS
5 12 (10.00%) WPF
6 10 (8.33%) REST
7 9 (7.50%) XML
8 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.67%) PySpark
8 8 (6.67%) React
8 8 (6.67%) SPFx
9 7 (5.83%) JSON
10 6 (5.00%) RESTful
10 6 (5.00%) Web Services
11 5 (4.17%) Kafka
11 5 (4.17%) XSLT
12 4 (3.33%) Middleware
12 4 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.33%) Wiki
3 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.67%) Derivative
4 2 (1.67%) Equities
4 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.67%) NHS
4 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.67%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.83%) Eurex
5 1 (0.83%) Life Science
5 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (29.17%) Windows
2 15 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.33%) Agile
1 40 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 38 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (29.17%) ETL
4 33 (27.50%) DevOps
5 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (24.17%) AI
7 27 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 25 (20.83%) Data Modelling
9 22 (18.33%) Change Management
10 20 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 19 (15.83%) Unit Testing
12 18 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (15.00%) Data Engineering
13 16 (13.33%) Analytics
13 16 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (11.67%) Migration
15 12 (10.00%) Data Integration
15 12 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 116 (96.67%) SQL
2 62 (51.67%) C#
3 57 (47.50%) PL/SQL
4 23 (19.17%) JavaScript
4 23 (19.17%) Python
5 15 (12.50%) VBA
6 14 (11.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (9.17%) VB
8 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.00%) VB.NET
10 5 (4.17%) XPath
11 3 (2.50%) Bicep
12 2 (1.67%) Java
13 1 (0.83%) C
13 1 (0.83%) Tcl
13 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.67%) Degree
3 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.67%) QA
2 17 (14.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) IFRS
4 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.83%) Ansible
1 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (45.00%) Oracle
2 31 (25.83%) Citrix
2 31 (25.83%) Microsoft
3 15 (12.50%) Databricks
4 5 (4.17%) OpenText
5 4 (3.33%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.33%) Intapp
5 4 (3.33%) Sybase
6 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.83%) Foundry
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.83%) Palantir
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Tradeweb
6 1 (0.83%) VMware