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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 412 294
Rank change year-on-year +5 -118 -25
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 222 96 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.35% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.06% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 82 194
10th Percentile £365 £363 £363
25th Percentile £404 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -16.28% +9.14%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £611
90th Percentile £725 £649 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 11,960 9,094 10,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.06% 32.77% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,752 6,197 7,439
10th Percentile £363 £348 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 266 316
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.61 £32.16
25th Percentile £51.83 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.68 £79.38 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 August 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 August 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 -26 116 £492 +4.96% 76
North of England -34 46 £403 -10.50% 26
South East -32 35 £427 +13.96% 21
North West -35 32 £403 -10.50% 18
Yorkshire -32 14 £400 +6.67% 7
Midlands -46 10 £400 -5.88% 15
West Midlands -33 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -35 6 £425 -18.27% 6
East of England -22 2 £425 - 9
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 20 (9.01%) IIS
2 17 (7.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.70%) Confluence
4 5 (2.25%) Appian
4 5 (2.25%) Camunda
4 5 (2.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) MTS
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (18.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (3.15%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.80%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.45%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.45%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 74 (33.33%) Azure
2 67 (30.18%) Power Platform
3 34 (15.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 22 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.11%) AWS
7 15 (6.76%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.95%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (2.25%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.25%) Serverless
14 4 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.80%) GitHub
15 3 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.35%) Collibra
15 3 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.50%) Internet
2 7 (3.15%) SSL
3 4 (1.80%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.90%) DHCP
4 2 (0.90%) DNS
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
4 2 (0.90%) LAN
4 2 (0.90%) PABX
4 2 (0.90%) VLAN
4 2 (0.90%) VoIP
4 2 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (68.92%) SQL Server
2 59 (26.58%) Power BI
3 53 (23.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (19.37%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (14.41%) Oracle Database
6 27 (12.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (5.86%) MySQL
8 13 (5.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (3.60%) OLAP
10 8 (3.60%) Star Schema
11 7 (3.15%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.15%) Tableau
12 6 (2.70%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.25%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.80%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 16 (7.21%) Git
2 11 (4.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.15%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.25%) JIRA
4 5 (2.25%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.35%) Mocha
5 3 (1.35%) MSTest
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.45%) Moq
7 1 (0.45%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) Toad
7 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.13%) Finance
3 42 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (17.12%) Banking
5 12 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.25%) Front Office
7 5 (2.25%) Legal
8 4 (1.80%) Advertising
8 4 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.80%) Law
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.90%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 88 (39.64%) Developer
2 28 (12.61%) C# Developer
3 27 (12.16%) Consultant
4 25 (11.26%) SQL Developer
5 24 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.91%) DBA
6 22 (9.91%) Senior
7 20 (9.01%) SQL DBA
8 18 (8.11%) .NET Developer
9 17 (7.66%) Implementation Consultant
9 17 (7.66%) Lead
10 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) Analyst
12 8 (3.60%) Payroll Consultant
13 7 (3.15%) Applications Support
13 7 (3.15%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (3.15%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.15%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.15%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (33.78%) .NET
2 36 (16.22%) .NET Framework
3 24 (10.81%) XML
4 14 (6.31%) ASP.NET
4 14 (6.31%) WinForms
5 12 (5.41%) React
5 12 (5.41%) REST
6 11 (4.95%) CSS
6 11 (4.95%) HTML
6 11 (4.95%) PySpark
6 11 (4.95%) WPF
7 8 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.60%) JSON
7 8 (3.60%) SOAP
7 8 (3.60%) SPFx
7 8 (3.60%) Web Services
8 7 (3.15%) RESTful
8 7 (3.15%) XSLT
9 6 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Replication
1 13 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.95%) Clustering
3 6 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.25%) NHS
5 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.35%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.90%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.90%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.90%) Derivative
6 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.90%) Equities
6 2 (0.90%) Handset
6 2 (0.90%) Market Risk
6 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.07%) Windows
2 27 (12.16%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.70%) Linux
3 6 (2.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.90%) HPUX
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.33%) ETL
2 71 (31.98%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (24.77%) DevOps
4 47 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (20.72%) Agile
5 46 (20.72%) Data Modelling
5 46 (20.72%) Performance Tuning
6 43 (19.37%) CI/CD
7 41 (18.47%) Data Analysis
7 41 (18.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (15.77%) AI
9 29 (13.06%) Migration
10 28 (12.61%) Analytics
11 26 (11.71%) Workflow
12 23 (10.36%) Change Management
13 20 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (9.01%) Data Engineering
13 20 (9.01%) Data Integration
13 20 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (8.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 218 (98.20%) SQL
2 75 (33.78%) C#
3 57 (25.68%) PL/SQL
4 37 (16.67%) Python
5 28 (12.61%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.91%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.31%) VBA
8 12 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (4.50%) VB
10 6 (2.70%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.25%) XPath
12 4 (1.80%) Java
13 3 (1.35%) Bash
14 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.45%) Bicep
15 1 (0.45%) Tcl
15 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (11.26%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.36%) Degree
3 21 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.25%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CISA
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 26 (11.71%) QA
3 6 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (4.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.60%) SCOM
2 2 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.45%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 87 (39.19%) Microsoft
2 55 (24.77%) Oracle
3 29 (13.06%) Citrix
4 17 (7.66%) Databricks
5 11 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.15%) Sybase
7 5 (2.25%) OpenText
8 4 (1.80%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.80%) Intapp
9 3 (1.35%) BMC
9 3 (1.35%) Remedy
9 3 (1.35%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.90%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.45%) Foundry
11 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.45%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.45%) QAD
11 1 (0.45%) RedGate
11 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.45%) Tradeweb