T-SQL Contract Job Trends in England

Transact-SQL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 377 336
Rank change year-on-year -9 -41 -64
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 211 101 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.23% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 73 168
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £668 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £23.70 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £24.75 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,926 8,182 10,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.63% 33.73% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,216 5,684 7,857
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £533
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.44% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 208 444
10th Percentile £41.76 £26.30 £37.57
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £49.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.30 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% -

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in England

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in England

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London -12 114 £445 -15.24% 17
South East -28 47 £405 -7.43% 13
North of England -50 27 £500 +33.33% 23
North West -20 20 £500 +21.95% 9
South West -32 7 £475 -9.52% 6
Yorkshire -55 7 £408 +8.67% 12
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Midlands -73 3 £398 -6.47% 7
West Midlands -65 2 £398 -6.47% 3
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 21 (9.95%) IIS
2 9 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Mule
6 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 44 (20.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.42%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.97%) Azure
2 59 (27.96%) Power Platform
3 43 (20.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (18.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.11%) AWS
7 13 (6.16%) Power Automate
8 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.27%) Serverless
9 8 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.32%) GitHub
11 6 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.37%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.42%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.69%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (67.30%) SQL Server
2 48 (22.75%) Power BI
2 48 (22.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 40 (18.96%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (13.74%) Oracle Database
5 27 (12.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (12.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (9.95%) Data Lake
8 14 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (3.79%) Metadata
10 8 (3.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.79%) Spark SQL
11 7 (3.32%) Delta Lake
11 7 (3.32%) Power Query
12 6 (2.84%) DataStage
12 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (2.84%) MySQL
13 5 (2.37%) OLAP
13 5 (2.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Git
1 13 (6.16%) Visual Studio
2 7 (3.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (3.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (2.84%) JIRA
4 5 (2.37%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.37%) Mocha
4 5 (2.37%) MSTest
4 5 (2.37%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 61 (28.91%) Finance
2 55 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (15.64%) Banking
4 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.37%) Legal
7 4 (1.90%) Advertising
7 4 (1.90%) Law
8 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.95%) Local Government
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (36.97%) Developer
2 35 (16.59%) C# Developer
2 35 (16.59%) Consultant
3 34 (16.11%) Data Engineer
4 29 (13.74%) Implementation Consultant
5 22 (10.43%) SQL Developer
6 18 (8.53%) Microsoft Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Senior
8 16 (7.58%) .NET Developer
8 16 (7.58%) DBA
9 13 (6.16%) Payroll Consultant
9 13 (6.16%) SQL DBA
10 9 (4.27%) Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Database Developer
11 8 (3.79%) Applications Developer
11 8 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (3.79%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (3.79%) C# Application Developer
11 8 (3.79%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.79%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.01%) .NET
2 39 (18.48%) .NET Framework
3 32 (15.17%) XML
4 15 (7.11%) CSS
4 15 (7.11%) PySpark
4 15 (7.11%) WinForms
5 13 (6.16%) HTML
5 13 (6.16%) WPF
6 12 (5.69%) React
7 11 (5.21%) JSON
8 10 (4.74%) REST
8 10 (4.74%) RESTful
9 8 (3.79%) SPFx
10 6 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.84%) YAML
11 5 (2.37%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.37%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.37%) Kafka
11 5 (2.37%) Middleware
12 4 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Replication
2 11 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.32%) Clustering
4 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.84%) NHS
4 6 (2.84%) Wiki
5 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.95%) Equities
7 2 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.38%) Windows
2 23 (10.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.37%) Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) HPUX
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.81%) Business Intelligence
2 70 (33.18%) ETL
3 47 (22.27%) Analytics
3 47 (22.27%) Data Modelling
4 44 (20.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (20.38%) Agile
6 40 (18.96%) DevOps
7 39 (18.48%) Data Analysis
8 38 (18.01%) CI/CD
9 35 (16.59%) Performance Tuning
9 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.64%) Migration
11 29 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (12.80%) Unit Testing
13 24 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.90%) Data Engineering
15 22 (10.43%) AI
15 22 (10.43%) Change Management
15 22 (10.43%) Dimensional Modelling
16 19 (9.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 205 (97.16%) SQL
2 63 (29.86%) C#
2 63 (29.86%) PL/SQL
3 45 (21.33%) Python
4 24 (11.37%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.95%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.16%) VBA
8 12 (5.69%) VB
9 6 (2.84%) Bash
9 6 (2.84%) Bicep
10 4 (1.90%) Java
11 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (9.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.11%) Degree
3 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.37%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) HP APS
8 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.27%) QA
2 41 (19.43%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Terraform
2 3 (1.42%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (26.54%) Oracle
3 33 (15.64%) Citrix
4 30 (14.22%) Databricks
5 7 (3.32%) VMware
6 6 (2.84%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.90%) Remedy
7 4 (1.90%) Sybase
8 3 (1.42%) BMC
8 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.95%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.95%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) Adobe
10 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.47%) HP
10 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.47%) Sage
10 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.47%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Telerik