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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 400 322
Rank change year-on-year +23 -78 -54
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 239 97 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.05% 1.13% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 80 181
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £691 £675
UK median daily rate £464 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.37% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -82.56%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -82.56%

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 11,658 8,608 11,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.74% 33.80% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,589 5,947 8,202
10th Percentile £360 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -3.70% -2.96%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 208 488
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.62
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.19 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.88 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.33% -14.04% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £83.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +2.97%

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 29 June 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 29 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
London -3 127 £492 -1.60% 19
South East -11 51 £405 +15.71% 16
North of England -48 35 £403 +7.40% 21
North West -26 24 £403 +1.96% 12
Yorkshire -43 11 £400 +6.67% 8
South West -29 8 £425 -18.27% 4
Midlands -60 5 £400 -5.88% 3
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 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 (8.79%) IIS
2 13 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.51%) Confluence
3 6 (2.51%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.09%) Appian
4 5 (2.09%) Camunda
5 3 (1.26%) Apache
5 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.42%) Mule
7 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.42%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (2.09%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (2.09%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.67%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.26%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (32.64%) Azure
2 70 (29.29%) Power Platform
3 34 (14.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (12.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (10.46%) AWS
6 22 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (5.02%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.18%) Serverless
9 9 (3.77%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.51%) GitHub
12 5 (2.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.18%) Internet
2 2 (0.84%) SSL
3 1 (0.42%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (66.53%) SQL Server
2 60 (25.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 59 (24.69%) Power BI
4 46 (19.25%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (16.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.97%) Oracle Database
7 28 (11.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 18 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (7.11%) Data Lake
10 12 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.77%) MySQL
12 7 (2.93%) OLAP
12 7 (2.93%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (2.09%) DataStage
14 5 (2.09%) Delta Lake
14 5 (2.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.09%) Metadata
14 5 (2.09%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.28%) Git
2 11 (4.60%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.51%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.51%) JIRA
4 6 (2.51%) Mocha
4 6 (2.51%) MSTest
4 6 (2.51%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.51%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.84%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.42%) ERwin
6 1 (0.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) Moq
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
6 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 68 (28.45%) Finance
2 61 (25.52%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.74%) Banking
4 36 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.09%) Legal
7 5 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Advertising
9 3 (1.26%) Law
9 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Billing
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (40.59%) Developer
2 34 (14.23%) Consultant
2 34 (14.23%) SQL Developer
3 32 (13.39%) C# Developer
3 32 (13.39%) Data Engineer
4 28 (11.72%) Implementation Consultant
5 23 (9.62%) Senior
6 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Engineer
7 20 (8.37%) DBA
8 18 (7.53%) SQL DBA
9 16 (6.69%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.44%) Lead
10 13 (5.44%) Payroll Consultant
11 9 (3.77%) Database Developer
12 8 (3.35%) Analyst
12 8 (3.35%) SQL Server DBA
12 8 (3.35%) Workflow Consultant
13 7 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.93%) Integration Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (30.54%) .NET
2 40 (16.74%) .NET Framework
3 38 (15.90%) XML
4 16 (6.69%) CSS
5 15 (6.28%) REST
6 14 (5.86%) HTML
6 14 (5.86%) PySpark
7 13 (5.44%) React
8 12 (5.02%) WinForms
9 11 (4.60%) JSON
9 11 (4.60%) RESTful
9 11 (4.60%) WPF
10 10 (4.18%) ASP.NET
11 8 (3.35%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.35%) SPFx
12 7 (2.93%) SOAP
13 6 (2.51%) jQuery
13 6 (2.51%) Web Services
13 6 (2.51%) XSLT
14 5 (2.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.86%) Replication
1 14 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.60%) Clustering
3 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.93%) NHS
4 6 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.51%) Wiki
5 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.67%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.26%) Equities
6 3 (1.26%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.84%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.42%) Derivative
8 1 (0.42%) Life Science
8 1 (0.42%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.83%) Windows
2 21 (8.79%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.93%) Linux
4 4 (1.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) HPUX
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
1 85 (35.56%) ETL
2 53 (22.18%) Agile
3 50 (20.92%) DevOps
4 49 (20.50%) Data Modelling
5 46 (19.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (19.25%) Performance Tuning
5 46 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.57%) CI/CD
7 40 (16.74%) Analytics
7 40 (16.74%) Data Analysis
8 36 (15.06%) Migration
9 30 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (12.55%) Workflow
10 29 (12.13%) AI
11 27 (11.30%) Unit Testing
12 26 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.04%) Change Management
14 23 (9.62%) Data Engineering
15 18 (7.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 234 (97.91%) SQL
2 76 (31.80%) C#
3 63 (26.36%) PL/SQL
4 45 (18.83%) Python
5 27 (11.30%) JavaScript
5 27 (11.30%) PowerShell
6 20 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (5.02%) VBA
8 10 (4.18%) VB
9 6 (2.51%) Bash
9 6 (2.51%) Bicep
10 5 (2.09%) Java
10 5 (2.09%) VB.NET
11 4 (1.67%) XPath
12 3 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.42%) Groovy
13 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (8.79%) Degree
1 21 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.69%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.93%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.09%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.15%) QA
2 38 (15.90%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.51%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.26%) Docker
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.26%) Terraform
2 2 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (0.84%) SCOM
2 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Control-M
3 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 92 (38.49%) Microsoft
2 57 (23.85%) Oracle
3 33 (13.81%) Citrix
4 22 (9.21%) Databricks
5 5 (2.09%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.09%) OpenText
5 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.09%) Sybase
5 5 (2.09%) VMware
6 4 (1.67%) Intapp
6 4 (1.67%) Remedy
7 3 (1.26%) BMC
7 3 (1.26%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.84%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.42%) Adobe
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry
9 1 (0.42%) Google
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) Splunk
9 1 (0.42%) Telerik