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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 400 321
Rank change year-on-year +20 -79 -55
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 246 96 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.37% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 1.10% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 79 186
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £680 £695 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% +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 11,722 8,705 11,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.71% 33.71% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,629 6,015 8,213
10th Percentile £360 £353 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £521 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -4.06% -2.25%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 215 482
10th Percentile £35.25 £28.18 £35.59
25th Percentile £55.58 £36.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.78 £81.78 £77.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 2 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 2 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 -9 129 £491 -1.80% 26
South East -8 51 £405 +15.71% 23
North of England -47 40 £405 +8.00% 26
North West -31 27 £403 +1.96% 17
Yorkshire -36 13 £450 +20.00% 8
South West -27 8 £425 -18.27% 6
Midlands -53 5 £400 -5.88% 4
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 2
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 21 (8.54%) IIS
2 13 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.25%) Confluence
4 6 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.03%) Appian
5 5 (2.03%) Camunda
6 3 (1.22%) Apache
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
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 46 (18.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.44%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.63%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.22%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.81%) 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 82 (33.33%) Azure
2 73 (29.67%) Power Platform
3 34 (13.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (11.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (10.16%) AWS
5 25 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.88%) Power Automate
7 10 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.07%) Serverless
8 9 (3.66%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.44%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.44%) GitHub
11 5 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.07%) Internet
2 5 (2.03%) SSL
3 3 (1.22%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.41%) HTTP
4 1 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (67.07%) SQL Server
2 63 (25.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 62 (25.20%) Power BI
4 47 (19.11%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (15.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (13.01%) Oracle Database
7 28 (11.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 18 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.91%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.88%) MySQL
10 12 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.85%) OLAP
11 7 (2.85%) Spark SQL
12 6 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.03%) DataStage
13 5 (2.03%) Delta Lake
13 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.03%) Metadata
13 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
13 5 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (6.10%) Git
2 10 (4.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 10 (4.07%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.85%) JIRA
4 6 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.44%) Mocha
4 6 (2.44%) MSTest
4 6 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.44%) tSQLt
5 2 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.41%) ERwin
6 1 (0.41%) GitLab
6 1 (0.41%) Moq
6 1 (0.41%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 69 (28.05%) Finance
2 66 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.48%) Banking
4 38 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.03%) Legal
7 5 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
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 (0.81%) Billing
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) 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 97 (39.43%) Developer
2 34 (13.82%) Consultant
2 34 (13.82%) SQL Developer
3 32 (13.01%) C# Developer
3 32 (13.01%) Data Engineer
4 28 (11.38%) Implementation Consultant
5 23 (9.35%) DBA
5 23 (9.35%) Senior
6 22 (8.94%) Microsoft Engineer
7 21 (8.54%) SQL DBA
8 16 (6.50%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.10%) Lead
10 13 (5.28%) Payroll Consultant
11 10 (4.07%) Analyst
12 9 (3.66%) Database Developer
13 8 (3.25%) SQL Server DBA
13 8 (3.25%) Workflow Consultant
14 7 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 7 (2.85%) Integration Engineer
15 6 (2.44%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (30.49%) .NET
2 40 (16.26%) .NET Framework
3 38 (15.45%) XML
4 16 (6.50%) CSS
5 15 (6.10%) REST
6 14 (5.69%) HTML
6 14 (5.69%) PySpark
7 13 (5.28%) React
7 13 (5.28%) WinForms
8 11 (4.47%) ASP.NET
8 11 (4.47%) JSON
8 11 (4.47%) RESTful
8 11 (4.47%) WPF
9 9 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.25%) SPFx
11 7 (2.85%) SOAP
12 6 (2.44%) jQuery
12 6 (2.44%) Web Services
12 6 (2.44%) XSLT
13 5 (2.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.50%) Replication
2 15 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.28%) Clustering
4 7 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.85%) NHS
5 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.44%) Wiki
6 4 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.63%) Reinsurance
7 3 (1.22%) Equities
7 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.81%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.81%) Derivative
9 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.41%) Life Science
9 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.11%) Windows
2 23 (9.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.85%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) 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 88 (35.77%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (34.55%) ETL
3 56 (22.76%) Agile
4 54 (21.95%) DevOps
5 50 (20.33%) Data Modelling
6 49 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
8 45 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 43 (17.48%) CI/CD
10 41 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 40 (16.26%) Analytics
12 36 (14.63%) Migration
13 31 (12.60%) AI
13 31 (12.60%) Workflow
14 30 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.98%) Unit Testing
16 24 (9.76%) Change Management
16 24 (9.76%) Data Engineering
17 19 (7.72%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 241 (97.97%) SQL
2 79 (32.11%) C#
3 64 (26.02%) PL/SQL
4 45 (18.29%) Python
5 28 (11.38%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.98%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (4.88%) VBA
9 10 (4.07%) VB
10 6 (2.44%) Bash
10 6 (2.44%) Bicep
11 5 (2.03%) Java
11 5 (2.03%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.63%) XPath
13 3 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (9.35%) Degree
1 23 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.03%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (16.26%) QA
2 38 (15.45%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.44%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.03%) SCOM
2 3 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (39.43%) Microsoft
2 57 (23.17%) Oracle
3 32 (13.01%) Citrix
4 22 (8.94%) Databricks
5 9 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.03%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.03%) OpenText
6 5 (2.03%) Sybase
6 5 (2.03%) VMware
7 4 (1.63%) Intapp
7 4 (1.63%) Remedy
8 3 (1.22%) BMC
8 3 (1.22%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.81%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) Google
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Telerik