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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 303 238
Rank change year-on-year -21 -65 -22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 122 64 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.48% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.23% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 56 128
10th Percentile £404 £363 £363
25th Percentile £407 £404 £473
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 £741 £663 £688
England median daily rate £453 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +0.56% -18.18% +15.18%

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 6,348 5,195 6,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 38.63% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,305 3,559 4,610
10th Percentile £375 £375 £365
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 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 64 46
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.20 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -6.95% -17.39%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.38 £71.09
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 27 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 27 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 -10 13 £550 +60.58% 7
South London - 2 £725 - 2
East London +2 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 (15.57%) IIS
2 12 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.10%) Appian
3 5 (4.10%) Camunda
3 5 (4.10%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.46%) Confluence
5 2 (1.64%) Apache
5 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.82%) MTS
6 1 (0.82%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.74%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (5.74%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (3.28%) Elite 3E
3 3 (2.46%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.82%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.87%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) Power Platform
3 14 (11.48%) AWS
4 13 (10.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (7.38%) PowerApps
6 8 (6.56%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.28%) GitHub
8 4 (3.28%) Serverless
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.64%) Collibra
10 2 (1.64%) dbt
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (79.51%) SQL Server
2 29 (23.77%) Oracle Database
3 27 (22.13%) Power BI
4 20 (16.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (15.57%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (13.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (7.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.92%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.28%) DataStage
10 4 (3.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.28%) Tableau
11 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.46%) Metadata
11 3 (2.46%) MySQL
11 3 (2.46%) OLAP
11 3 (2.46%) Power Query
11 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.10%) JIRA
4 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.46%) Mocha
4 3 (2.46%) MSTest
4 3 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.46%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.82%) Moq
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 52 (42.62%) Finance
2 42 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 33 (27.05%) Banking
4 27 (22.13%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Front Office
6 4 (3.28%) Retail
7 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Prime Brokerage
9 1 (0.82%) Back Office
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Local Government
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Publishing
9 1 (0.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 65 (53.28%) Developer
2 25 (20.49%) C# Developer
3 17 (13.93%) Senior
4 16 (13.11%) SQL Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Applications Support
5 15 (12.30%) Data Engineer
6 14 (11.48%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Lead
8 7 (5.74%) Consultant
9 6 (4.92%) Analyst
9 6 (4.92%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.10%) BPM Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.10%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (54.10%) .NET
2 32 (26.23%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.30%) WinForms
4 12 (9.84%) WPF
5 11 (9.02%) HTML
6 10 (8.20%) AngularJS
6 10 (8.20%) CSS
6 10 (8.20%) Web Services
7 9 (7.38%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.38%) REST
7 9 (7.38%) XML
8 8 (6.56%) SOAP
9 7 (5.74%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.74%) PySpark
9 7 (5.74%) React
10 6 (4.92%) RESTful
11 5 (4.10%) JSON
11 5 (4.10%) SPFx
11 5 (4.10%) XSLT
12 4 (3.28%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.56%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.28%) Market Risk
4 3 (2.46%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.46%) Derivative
4 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.64%) Equities
5 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.64%) Replication
5 2 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.82%) Eurex
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (35.25%) Windows
2 20 (16.39%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.10%) Linux
4 4 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.43%) Data Analysis
2 37 (30.33%) Agile
3 36 (29.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (26.23%) AI
5 32 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (24.59%) DevOps
7 28 (22.95%) ETL
8 27 (22.13%) CI/CD
9 26 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (18.85%) Data Modelling
11 19 (15.57%) Change Management
12 17 (13.93%) Generative AI
12 17 (13.93%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (13.11%) SDLC
14 14 (11.48%) Unit Testing
15 12 (9.84%) Analytics
15 12 (9.84%) Migration
16 11 (9.02%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (97.54%) SQL
2 68 (55.74%) C#
3 53 (43.44%) PL/SQL
4 26 (21.31%) JavaScript
4 26 (21.31%) Python
5 14 (11.48%) VBA
6 11 (9.02%) VB
7 9 (7.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.10%) VB.NET
8 5 (4.10%) XPath
9 4 (3.28%) Java
9 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.64%) Bash
10 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.82%) Tcl
11 1 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.38%) Degree
2 6 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.85%) QA
2 16 (13.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.82%) ITGC
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.82%) Ansible
1 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.82%) SCOM
1 1 (0.82%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 57 (46.72%) Oracle
2 27 (22.13%) Citrix
3 26 (21.31%) Microsoft
4 16 (13.11%) Databricks
5 5 (4.10%) OpenText
5 5 (4.10%) Sybase
6 4 (3.28%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.28%) Intapp
7 3 (2.46%) eFront
8 1 (0.82%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.82%) Foundry
8 1 (0.82%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.82%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.82%) Palantir
8 1 (0.82%) RedGate
8 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) Tradeweb