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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 285 236
Rank change year-on-year -19 -49 -36
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 118 62 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.51% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 1.28% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 53 136
10th Percentile £404 £365 £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 £636 £626 £600
90th Percentile £734 £715 £681
England median daily rate £453 £469 £525
% change year-on-year -3.41% -10.71% +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 5,843 4,855 6,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.37% 39.66% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 3,403 5,050
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £440 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £524 £540
% change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 40 53
10th Percentile £32.12 £28.84 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.75 £33.25 £40.75
Median hourly rate £58.50 £39.06 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.79% -22.66% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.00 £55.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.50 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -8 10 £625 - 10
East London -3 1 £500 -25.93%
West London -25 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 15 (12.71%) IIS
2 9 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.54%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Appian
3 3 (2.54%) Camunda
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Mule
5 1 (0.85%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (2.54%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.69%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.85%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 43 (36.44%) Azure
2 37 (31.36%) Power Platform
3 23 (19.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (16.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (12.71%) AWS
6 13 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (7.63%) PowerApps
8 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (6.78%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.78%) Serverless
9 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.24%) GitHub
12 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.69%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (81.36%) SQL Server
2 33 (27.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 26 (22.03%) Oracle Database
3 26 (22.03%) Power BI
4 22 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (16.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (13.56%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (7.63%) Spark SQL
9 7 (5.93%) Delta Lake
10 6 (5.08%) DataStage
11 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (3.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.39%) Metadata
12 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 2 (1.69%) Parquet
13 2 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Git
1 9 (7.63%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.08%) Cucumber
2 6 (5.08%) Mocha
2 6 (5.08%) MSTest
2 6 (5.08%) tSQLt
3 5 (4.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) Moq
5 1 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (43.22%) Finance
2 33 (27.97%) Banking
2 33 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (49.15%) Developer
2 27 (22.88%) C# Developer
3 23 (19.49%) Data Engineer
4 17 (14.41%) SQL Developer
5 15 (12.71%) Senior
6 11 (9.32%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Lead
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Developer
9 6 (5.08%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Consultant
9 6 (5.08%) Data Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Data Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Database Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Lead .NET Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) SharePoint Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (42.37%) .NET
2 32 (27.12%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.86%) CSS
3 14 (11.86%) HTML
4 10 (8.47%) REST
4 10 (8.47%) WinForms
4 10 (8.47%) WPF
5 8 (6.78%) React
5 8 (6.78%) SPFx
6 7 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.93%) PySpark
6 7 (5.93%) RESTful
7 6 (5.08%) JSON
8 5 (4.24%) Kafka
8 5 (4.24%) XML
9 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.39%) Middleware
10 3 (2.54%) jQuery
10 3 (2.54%) SOAP
10 3 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.93%) Replication
3 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Reinsurance
4 4 (3.39%) Wiki
5 3 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.54%) Equities
5 3 (2.54%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.69%) Clustering
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.85%) Derivative
7 1 (0.85%) Life Science
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.27%) Windows
2 14 (11.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.39%) Linux
4 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (31.36%) Data Analysis
3 35 (29.66%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (28.81%) Agile
5 33 (27.97%) ETL
6 30 (25.42%) DevOps
7 28 (23.73%) CI/CD
8 24 (20.34%) Data Modelling
8 24 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (19.49%) Analytics
9 23 (19.49%) Change Management
9 23 (19.49%) Unit Testing
10 21 (17.80%) AI
10 21 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (17.80%) Data Engineering
11 19 (16.10%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (14.41%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (14.41%) Migration
13 16 (13.56%) Dimensional Modelling
14 13 (11.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 113 (95.76%) SQL
2 56 (47.46%) PL/SQL
3 53 (44.92%) C#
4 30 (25.42%) Python
5 20 (16.95%) JavaScript
6 13 (11.02%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.17%) VBA
8 11 (9.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (8.47%) VB
10 4 (3.39%) Java
11 3 (2.54%) Bicep
11 3 (2.54%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.69%) XPath
13 1 (0.85%) Bash
13 1 (0.85%) C
13 1 (0.85%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.85%) Groovy
13 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (10.17%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.66%) QA
2 20 (16.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS
4 1 (0.85%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (2.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Terraform
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Control-M
2 1 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (42.37%) Oracle
2 34 (28.81%) Microsoft
3 30 (25.42%) Citrix
4 19 (16.10%) Databricks
5 6 (5.08%) Alteryx
6 5 (4.24%) VMware
7 4 (3.39%) Sybase
8 3 (2.54%) OpenText
9 2 (1.69%) Intapp
10 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.85%) Foundry
10 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.85%) Palantir
10 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.85%) Splunk