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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 293 241
Rank change year-on-year -6 -52 -25
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 129 66 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.50% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 1.28% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 59 138
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £623
90th Percentile £730 £685 £688
England median daily rate £453 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +10.53%

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 6,044 5,152 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.29% 39.32% 38.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,029 3,612 5,166
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £446 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £849
England median daily rate £519 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -0.16% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 48 50
10th Percentile £33.21 £27.08 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £34.82
Median hourly rate £57.77 £41.66 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.67% -16.27% -17.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.81 £62.23
90th Percentile £89.00 £81.88 £72.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% +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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -2 12 £645 -2.64% 4
East London -2 1 £500 -25.93%
West London -23 1 £550 - 2
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 (14.73%) IIS
2 10 (7.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.88%) Appian
3 5 (3.88%) Camunda
3 5 (3.88%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.78%) Mule
6 1 (0.78%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (4.65%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.10%) Elite 3E
3 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.78%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.56%) Azure
2 36 (27.91%) Power Platform
3 20 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (13.18%) AWS
5 16 (12.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (6.98%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.20%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.20%) Serverless
9 7 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.88%) GitHub
12 4 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (1.55%) Azure Storage
14 2 (1.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (80.62%) SQL Server
2 31 (24.03%) Oracle Database
3 29 (22.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (21.71%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (19.38%) Power BI
6 23 (17.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (11.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (9.30%) Data Lake
9 7 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.88%) Spark SQL
11 4 (3.10%) DataStage
11 4 (3.10%) Metadata
12 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.33%) OLAP
12 3 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.33%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Git
2 8 (6.20%) Visual Studio
3 6 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 6 (4.65%) Mocha
3 6 (4.65%) MSTest
3 6 (4.65%) tSQLt
4 5 (3.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (0.78%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.78%) ERwin
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) Moq
6 1 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (44.96%) Finance
2 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 41 (31.78%) Banking
4 25 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.55%) Front Office
7 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Local Government
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (55.04%) Developer
2 32 (24.81%) C# Developer
3 22 (17.05%) Data Engineer
3 22 (17.05%) SQL Developer
4 18 (13.95%) Senior
5 14 (10.85%) .NET Developer
6 8 (6.20%) Lead
7 6 (4.65%) Applications Developer
7 6 (4.65%) C# Application Developer
7 6 (4.65%) Consultant
7 6 (4.65%) Database Developer
7 6 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (4.65%) Lead .NET Developer
7 6 (4.65%) Lead Developer
7 6 (4.65%) SQL Database Developer
8 5 (3.88%) DBA
8 5 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) SharePoint Consultant
8 5 (3.88%) Software Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (48.06%) .NET
2 38 (29.46%) .NET Framework
3 14 (10.85%) CSS
3 14 (10.85%) HTML
3 14 (10.85%) WinForms
4 12 (9.30%) REST
4 12 (9.30%) WPF
5 9 (6.98%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.20%) PySpark
6 8 (6.20%) React
6 8 (6.20%) SPFx
6 8 (6.20%) XML
7 7 (5.43%) RESTful
8 6 (4.65%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.65%) JSON
8 6 (4.65%) Web Services
9 5 (3.88%) Kafka
9 5 (3.88%) SOAP
10 4 (3.10%) Middleware
10 4 (3.10%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.43%) Replication
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Reinsurance
4 4 (3.10%) Wiki
5 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.33%) Equities
5 3 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.55%) Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) Derivative
6 2 (1.55%) NHS
6 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.78%) Life Science
7 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.91%) Windows
2 16 (12.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.10%) Linux
4 2 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (36.43%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (32.56%) Agile
2 42 (32.56%) Data Analysis
3 37 (28.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 36 (27.91%) DevOps
4 36 (27.91%) ETL
5 32 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (23.26%) CI/CD
7 26 (20.16%) AI
8 25 (19.38%) Data Modelling
8 25 (19.38%) Unit Testing
9 24 (18.60%) Change Management
9 24 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
11 21 (16.28%) Analytics
12 20 (15.50%) Migration
13 19 (14.73%) Data Engineering
14 18 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (9.30%) Data Integration
16 11 (8.53%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 124 (96.12%) SQL
2 64 (49.61%) C#
3 61 (47.29%) PL/SQL
4 27 (20.93%) Python
5 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.08%) VBA
7 12 (9.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (8.53%) VB
9 10 (7.75%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.88%) VB.NET
11 4 (3.10%) Java
11 4 (3.10%) XPath
12 3 (2.33%) Bicep
13 1 (0.78%) Bash
13 1 (0.78%) C
13 1 (0.78%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.78%) Groovy
13 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Degree
2 7 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (27.91%) QA
2 19 (14.73%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Terraform
2 1 (0.78%) Ansible
2 1 (0.78%) Control-M
2 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (42.64%) Oracle
2 34 (26.36%) Citrix
2 34 (26.36%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.85%) Databricks
4 5 (3.88%) OpenText
4 5 (3.88%) VMware
5 4 (3.10%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.10%) Intapp
5 4 (3.10%) Sybase
6 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.78%) Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) Palantir
6 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk