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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 278 222
Rank change year-on-year -39 -56 -20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 67 85 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.46% 0.61% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.57% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 65 109
10th Percentile £350 £364 -
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £514 £600 £606
90th Percentile £698 £716 £675
England median daily rate £415 £506 £475
% change year-on-year -18.02% +6.58% -
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 £18.41
% change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%

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 5,425 5,397 6,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.14% 38.61% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 3,587 4,811
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 36 66
10th Percentile £25.49 £35.00 £26.56
25th Percentile £36.00 £40.06 £36.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.70 £73.25 £62.31
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -12 3 £313 -45.65% 10
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 16 (23.88%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (20.90%) Power Platform
4 12 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (17.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (10.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Storage
7 3 (4.48%) GitHub
8 2 (2.99%) AWS
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.99%) Serverless
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.49%) GCP
9 1 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.49%) SaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) Internet
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (82.09%) SQL Server
2 21 (31.34%) Oracle Database
3 18 (26.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (22.39%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (20.90%) Power BI
6 10 (14.93%) Data Lake
7 5 (7.46%) DataStage
7 5 (7.46%) Delta Lake
7 5 (7.46%) Spark SQL
7 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (5.97%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
9 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.99%) Metadata
10 2 (2.99%) Power Query
10 2 (2.99%) PowerPivot
10 2 (2.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.46%) Git
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.49%) GitLab
5 1 (1.49%) JIRA
5 1 (1.49%) NUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Selenium
5 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 18 (26.87%) Banking
3 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (68.66%) Developer
2 31 (46.27%) C# Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Data Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Architect
5 7 (10.45%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (8.96%) C# WCF Developer
6 6 (8.96%) C# WPF Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Data Architect
6 6 (8.96%) SQL Developer
6 6 (8.96%) WCF Developer
6 6 (8.96%) WPF Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.97%) C# Application Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Data Integration Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (52.24%) .NET
2 27 (40.30%) .NET Framework
3 13 (19.40%) WinForms
3 13 (19.40%) WPF
4 8 (11.94%) WCF
5 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.97%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (5.97%) Kafka
5 4 (5.97%) Middleware
6 3 (4.48%) PySpark
6 3 (4.48%) React
7 2 (2.99%) ADO
7 2 (2.99%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.99%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.99%) Express.js
7 2 (2.99%) JSON
7 2 (2.99%) SOAP
7 2 (2.99%) Web Services
8 1 (1.49%) REST
8 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (46.27%) Windows
2 16 (23.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (38.81%) CI/CD
3 23 (34.33%) Data Analysis
4 21 (31.34%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (29.85%) DevOps
6 19 (28.36%) Analytics
7 17 (25.37%) Agile
7 17 (25.37%) ETL
8 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.40%) Change Management
9 13 (19.40%) Unit Testing
10 12 (17.91%) Data Modelling
11 11 (16.42%) Migration
12 10 (14.93%) Data Engineering
12 10 (14.93%) Data Governance
12 10 (14.93%) Dimensional Modelling
12 10 (14.93%) OO
12 10 (14.93%) OOP
13 9 (13.43%) Data Architecture
13 9 (13.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 65 (97.01%) SQL
2 37 (55.22%) PL/SQL
3 36 (53.73%) C#
4 11 (16.42%) Python
4 11 (16.42%) VBA
5 10 (14.93%) VB
6 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.99%) Bicep
9 2 (2.99%) Scala
10 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Degree
2 6 (8.96%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) HP APS
6 1 (1.49%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.31%) QA
2 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (55.22%) Oracle
2 27 (40.30%) Microsoft
3 24 (35.82%) Citrix
4 16 (23.88%) Databricks
5 4 (5.97%) Alteryx
5 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.48%) VMware
7 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) HP
8 1 (1.49%) Okta
8 1 (1.49%) Sybase
8 1 (1.49%) Workday