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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 273 230
Rank change year-on-year -36 -43 -32
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 92 77 162
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 1.49% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 107
10th Percentile £350 £363 £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +13.51% -7.04%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £585
90th Percentile £662 £725 £650
England median daily rate £415 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -5.26%

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 5,720 5,181 6,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.20% 39.04% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 3,486 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £801
England median daily rate £507 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.45% -5.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 35 67
10th Percentile £19.09 £31.60 £26.06
25th Percentile £39.34 £37.43 £38.46
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.38 £62.13
90th Percentile £79.63 £93.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -23 5 £475 -17.39% 4
West 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 18 (19.57%) IIS
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Mule
3 1 (1.09%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Alphatax
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.09%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 39 (42.39%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (20.65%) Power Platform
4 17 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (16.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (7.61%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (7.61%) GitHub
7 6 (6.52%) AWS
8 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (5.43%) Serverless
9 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.17%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.96%) Internet
2 2 (2.17%) DHCP
2 2 (2.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (82.61%) SQL Server
2 28 (30.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 26 (28.26%) Oracle Database
4 21 (22.83%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (17.39%) Power BI
6 13 (14.13%) Data Lake
7 12 (13.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (13.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (5.43%) DataStage
8 5 (5.43%) Delta Lake
8 5 (5.43%) Spark SQL
9 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (4.35%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.26%) Data Vault
10 3 (3.26%) Metadata
10 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.17%) Big Data
11 2 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.61%) Git
2 7 (7.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) Mocha
3 3 (3.26%) MSTest
3 3 (3.26%) tSQLt
4 2 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.09%) ERwin
5 1 (1.09%) NUnit
5 1 (1.09%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.09%) Selenium
5 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 42 (45.65%) Finance
2 23 (25.00%) Banking
2 23 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Financial Institution
4 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Legal
6 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (58.70%) Developer
2 36 (39.13%) C# Developer
3 17 (18.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) .NET Developer
4 11 (11.96%) SQL Developer
5 7 (7.61%) Applications Developer
5 7 (7.61%) Architect
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Developer
5 7 (7.61%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (7.61%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.52%) Database Developer
6 6 (6.52%) SQL Database Developer
6 6 (6.52%) T-SQL Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Senior
8 4 (4.35%) C# WPF Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (47.83%) .NET
2 34 (36.96%) .NET Framework
3 14 (15.22%) WinForms
3 14 (15.22%) WPF
4 6 (6.52%) WCF
5 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (4.35%) CSS
6 4 (4.35%) HTML
6 4 (4.35%) JSON
6 4 (4.35%) Middleware
6 4 (4.35%) REST
7 3 (3.26%) PySpark
7 3 (3.26%) RESTful
7 3 (3.26%) SOAP
7 3 (3.26%) XML
7 3 (3.26%) YAML
8 2 (2.17%) Kafka
8 2 (2.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Replication
2 7 (7.61%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Wiki
5 3 (3.26%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.17%) Clustering
6 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.09%) Equities
7 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (41.30%) Windows
2 20 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.17%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (32.61%) CI/CD
2 30 (32.61%) Data Analysis
3 29 (31.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (30.43%) DevOps
5 26 (28.26%) ETL
6 25 (27.17%) Agile
7 23 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 20 (21.74%) Analytics
8 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (20.65%) Migration
10 16 (17.39%) Change Management
10 16 (17.39%) Data Modelling
10 16 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (16.30%) Data Engineering
11 15 (16.30%) Dimensional Modelling
11 15 (16.30%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (11.96%) Data Governance
12 11 (11.96%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 87 (94.57%) SQL
2 49 (53.26%) PL/SQL
3 45 (48.91%) C#
4 15 (16.30%) Python
5 12 (13.04%) VBA
6 11 (11.96%) VB
7 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (6.52%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.35%) Bicep
10 2 (2.17%) Java
11 1 (1.09%) Bash
11 1 (1.09%) C
11 1 (1.09%) DataWeave
11 1 (1.09%) Groovy
11 1 (1.09%) Scala
11 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) HP APS
7 1 (1.09%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (40.22%) QA
2 9 (9.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS
4 1 (1.09%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.09%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Control-M
1 1 (1.09%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (50.00%) Oracle
2 36 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 30 (32.61%) Citrix
4 16 (17.39%) Databricks
5 8 (8.70%) VMware
6 4 (4.35%) Alteryx
7 3 (3.26%) Sybase
8 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.17%) SAP
9 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.09%) HP
9 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.09%) Splunk
9 1 (1.09%) Workday