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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 398 317
Rank change year-on-year +6 -81 -57
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 245 108 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.39% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.06% 1.20% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 90 188
10th Percentile £350 £361 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -5.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £679
UK median daily rate £453 £481 £525
% change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £22.13 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £27.50 £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

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 11,873 9,030 10,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.46% 33.02% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,213 7,885
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 230 402
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.88 £39.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.11 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.75
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.56% +3.51%

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 23 July 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 23 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
London -15 126 £490 -2.00% 21
South East -20 49 £404 +15.36% 14
North of England -42 42 £405 +8.00% 11
North West -24 29 £403 +1.96% 5
Yorkshire -41 13 £450 +20.00% 6
South West -31 8 £425 -18.27% 9
Midlands -57 8 £425 - 8
West Midlands -57 7 £425 - 7
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
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 23 (9.39%) IIS
2 14 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.86%) Confluence
4 6 (2.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.04%) Appian
5 5 (2.04%) Camunda
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.82%) Apache
7 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) Mule
8 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 49 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.45%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.45%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.63%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.22%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (32.24%) Azure
2 72 (29.39%) Power Platform
3 33 (13.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (10.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (10.20%) AWS
6 24 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.90%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.67%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.67%) Serverless
10 8 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.45%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.45%) GitHub
13 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.49%) Internet
2 6 (2.45%) SSL
3 3 (1.22%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) DNS
4 1 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.41%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) PABX
4 1 (0.41%) SMTP
4 1 (0.41%) VLAN
4 1 (0.41%) VoIP
4 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (68.57%) SQL Server
2 66 (26.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 61 (24.90%) Power BI
4 50 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (15.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (13.47%) Oracle Database
7 27 (11.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.71%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.31%) MySQL
11 12 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.27%) OLAP
13 6 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.45%) Tableau
14 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.04%) Metadata
14 5 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.04%) Spark SQL
14 5 (2.04%) Star Schema
15 4 (1.63%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 17 (6.94%) Git
2 10 (4.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 8 (3.27%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.45%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.45%) JIRA
4 6 (2.45%) Mocha
4 6 (2.45%) MSTest
4 6 (2.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.45%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.41%) ERwin
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
5 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) Moq
5 1 (0.41%) MSI
5 1 (0.41%) Postman
5 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 68 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 67 (27.35%) Finance
3 40 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (16.33%) Banking
4 13 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Legal
8 4 (1.63%) Advertising
9 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Law
9 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (38.78%) Developer
2 36 (14.69%) Consultant
3 35 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 32 (13.06%) C# Developer
5 30 (12.24%) Data Engineer
6 28 (11.43%) Implementation Consultant
7 25 (10.20%) Senior
8 24 (9.80%) DBA
9 22 (8.98%) SQL DBA
10 20 (8.16%) Microsoft Engineer
11 18 (7.35%) .NET Developer
12 16 (6.53%) Lead
13 13 (5.31%) Payroll Consultant
14 10 (4.08%) Analyst
15 8 (3.27%) C# .NET Developer
15 8 (3.27%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (3.27%) SQL Server DBA
15 8 (3.27%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.86%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.61%) .NET
2 39 (15.92%) .NET Framework
2 39 (15.92%) XML
3 15 (6.12%) CSS
3 15 (6.12%) HTML
3 15 (6.12%) REST
3 15 (6.12%) WinForms
4 12 (4.90%) ASP.NET
4 12 (4.90%) React
4 12 (4.90%) WPF
5 11 (4.49%) JSON
5 11 (4.49%) PySpark
6 10 (4.08%) RESTful
7 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.27%) SPFx
9 7 (2.86%) SOAP
9 7 (2.86%) XSLT
10 6 (2.45%) jQuery
10 6 (2.45%) Web Services
11 5 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.35%) Replication
2 15 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.71%) Clustering
4 7 (2.86%) NHS
5 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.45%) Wiki
6 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.63%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.22%) Equities
8 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.82%) Derivative
10 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.41%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.41%) Handset
10 1 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.82%) Windows
2 25 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) HPUX
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (34.29%) Business Intelligence
2 83 (33.88%) ETL
3 55 (22.45%) Agile
4 54 (22.04%) DevOps
5 50 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (19.18%) Data Modelling
7 44 (17.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (16.73%) Data Analysis
9 39 (15.92%) CI/CD
10 36 (14.69%) Migration
11 32 (13.06%) AI
11 32 (13.06%) Analytics
12 31 (12.65%) Workflow
13 27 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.80%) Data Engineering
16 23 (9.39%) Unit Testing
17 22 (8.98%) Change Management
18 18 (7.35%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 240 (97.96%) SQL
2 79 (32.24%) C#
3 64 (26.12%) PL/SQL
4 39 (15.92%) Python
5 29 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.02%) PowerShell
7 17 (6.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.71%) VBA
9 11 (4.49%) VB
10 6 (2.45%) Bash
10 6 (2.45%) Bicep
10 6 (2.45%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.04%) Java
11 5 (2.04%) XPath
12 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.98%) Degree
3 18 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.51%) QA
2 34 (13.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.45%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.45%) SCOM
2 2 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Control-M
3 1 (0.41%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (39.18%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.67%) Oracle
3 32 (13.06%) Citrix
4 16 (6.53%) Databricks
5 10 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.04%) OpenText
6 5 (2.04%) Sybase
7 4 (1.63%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.63%) Intapp
7 4 (1.63%) Remedy
7 4 (1.63%) VMware
8 3 (1.22%) BMC
8 3 (1.22%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.82%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Google
10 1 (0.41%) Palantir
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Telerik