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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 423 305
Rank change year-on-year -6 -118 -22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 212 94 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.34% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.77% 1.03% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 77 181
10th Percentile £350 £344 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -18.18% +14.58%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £619
90th Percentile £725 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £453 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +0.61% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

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 11,945 9,116 10,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.89% 32.86% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,742 6,148 7,133
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 259 304
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.38 £48.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £76.75 £79.75
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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -23 123 £453 -2.05% 48
North of England -34 43 £400 -2.97% 25
North West -32 30 £405 -10.00% 16
South East -39 21 £410 +9.30% 24
Yorkshire -29 13 £350 -6.67% 8
Midlands -44 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -40 8 £413 -2.94% 15
South West -35 6 £588 +12.98% 5
East of England -21 1 £425 - 16
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 (9.43%) IIS
2 16 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.72%) Confluence
4 5 (2.36%) Appian
4 5 (2.36%) Camunda
4 5 (2.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.94%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) MTS
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (12.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.30%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (3.30%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.89%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.42%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 73 (34.43%) Azure
2 69 (32.55%) Power Platform
3 26 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (9.43%) AWS
6 17 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (5.19%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.25%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.83%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.83%) GitHub
12 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.36%) Serverless
13 4 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.19%) Internet
1 11 (5.19%) SSL
2 4 (1.89%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.94%) DHCP
3 2 (0.94%) DNS
3 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 2 (0.94%) LAN
3 2 (0.94%) PABX
3 2 (0.94%) VLAN
3 2 (0.94%) VoIP
3 2 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (74.53%) SQL Server
2 64 (30.19%) Power BI
3 54 (25.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 39 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (14.62%) Oracle Database
6 28 (13.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (8.96%) MySQL
8 15 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (4.25%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.25%) Star Schema
11 8 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (3.77%) Tableau
12 7 (3.30%) OLAP
13 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (1.89%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.89%) DataStage
14 4 (1.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.96%) Git
2 9 (4.25%) JIRA
3 8 (3.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.83%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.36%) tSQLt
6 4 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.42%) Mocha
7 3 (1.42%) MSTest
8 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.94%) Subversion
9 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.47%) Moq
9 1 (0.47%) Toad
9 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 59 (27.83%) Finance
3 41 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (17.92%) Banking
5 10 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.77%) Front Office
7 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.89%) Retail
9 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.94%) Legal
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.94%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 84 (39.62%) Developer
2 27 (12.74%) Senior
3 26 (12.26%) Data Engineer
4 25 (11.79%) C# Developer
4 25 (11.79%) DBA
4 25 (11.79%) SQL Developer
5 22 (10.38%) SQL DBA
6 19 (8.96%) Lead
7 18 (8.49%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.08%) Microsoft Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.19%) Analyst
11 10 (4.72%) Consultant
12 9 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (3.30%) SC Cleared DBA
13 7 (3.30%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 6 (2.83%) Integration Engineer
14 6 (2.83%) Lead Developer
14 6 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.26%) .NET
2 33 (15.57%) .NET Framework
3 15 (7.08%) WinForms
4 12 (5.66%) ASP.NET
4 12 (5.66%) WPF
5 11 (5.19%) HTML
6 10 (4.72%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.72%) CSS
6 10 (4.72%) PySpark
6 10 (4.72%) React
6 10 (4.72%) REST
6 10 (4.72%) Web Services
7 9 (4.25%) SOAP
7 9 (4.25%) XML
8 8 (3.77%) .NET Core
9 7 (3.30%) XSLT
10 6 (2.83%) JSON
10 6 (2.83%) RESTful
11 5 (2.36%) jQuery
11 5 (2.36%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.55%) Replication
2 14 (6.60%) Clustering
3 11 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.25%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.89%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.89%) NHS
7 3 (1.42%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.42%) Derivative
7 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.94%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.94%) Equities
8 2 (0.94%) Handset
8 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.47%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 63 (29.72%) Windows
2 36 (16.98%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.30%) Linux
4 6 (2.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.94%) HPUX
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (35.38%) Business Intelligence
2 72 (33.96%) ETL
3 56 (26.42%) DevOps
4 49 (23.11%) Performance Tuning
5 47 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (21.23%) Agile
6 45 (21.23%) Data Modelling
7 44 (20.75%) Data Analysis
8 43 (20.28%) CI/CD
8 43 (20.28%) Disaster Recovery
9 35 (16.51%) AI
10 29 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (12.26%) Migration
12 25 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (10.85%) Analytics
13 23 (10.85%) Change Management
13 23 (10.85%) Lakehouse
14 22 (10.38%) Workflow
15 19 (8.96%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (8.49%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 209 (98.58%) SQL
2 80 (37.74%) C#
3 57 (26.89%) PL/SQL
4 37 (17.45%) Python
5 29 (13.68%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.38%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.60%) VBA
8 11 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (5.19%) VB
9 5 (2.36%) Bash
9 5 (2.36%) VB.NET
9 5 (2.36%) XPath
10 4 (1.89%) Java
10 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) Tcl
12 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.74%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CISA
9 1 (0.47%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.32%) QA
3 6 (2.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) ITGC
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (5.19%) Active Directory
1 11 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.66%) SCOM
2 2 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (40.57%) Microsoft
2 61 (28.77%) Oracle
3 27 (12.74%) Citrix
4 19 (8.96%) Databricks
5 15 (7.08%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.83%) Sybase
7 5 (2.36%) OpenText
8 4 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.89%) Intapp
9 3 (1.42%) eFront
9 3 (1.42%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.94%) BMC
10 2 (0.94%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.94%) Remedy
11 1 (0.47%) Foundry
11 1 (0.47%) Google
11 1 (0.47%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.47%) Northgate
11 1 (0.47%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.47%) Tradeweb