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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 398 292
Rank change year-on-year +2 -106 -22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 237 106 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.38% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.17% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 88 194
10th Percentile £360 £363 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £494 £531
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -7.06% +10.68%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £601
90th Percentile £705 £679 £684
UK median daily rate £458 £481 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% -8.33% +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 11,989 9,033 10,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.22% 32.75% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 6,176 7,550
10th Percentile £363 £345 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £533
% change year-on-year +2.93% -5.68% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 252 347
10th Percentile £31.30 £29.10 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.39 £41.20 £50.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.66 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +8.33%

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 19 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 19 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 -31 117 £490 -2.00% 71
North of England -41 49 £403 -10.50% 21
South East -25 47 £405 +15.71% 21
North West -27 35 £403 -10.50% 13
Yorkshire -31 14 £400 - 6
Midlands -39 10 £400 -5.88% 12
West Midlands -50 9 £400 -5.88% 9
South West -38 7 £475 -8.65% 6
East of England -27 1 - - 12
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 22 (9.28%) IIS
2 17 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.95%) Confluence
4 6 (2.53%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.11%) Appian
5 5 (2.11%) Camunda
6 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.84%) Apache
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.42%) MTS
8 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 51 (21.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.42%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.95%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.95%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.69%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
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
5 1 (0.42%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.07%) Azure
2 67 (28.27%) Power Platform
3 35 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (10.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.28%) AWS
7 15 (6.33%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.53%) Serverless
13 5 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.69%) GitHub
15 3 (1.27%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.22%) Internet
2 7 (2.95%) SSL
3 4 (1.69%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.84%) DHCP
4 2 (0.84%) DNS
4 2 (0.84%) Firewall
4 2 (0.84%) LAN
4 2 (0.84%) PABX
4 2 (0.84%) VLAN
4 2 (0.84%) VoIP
4 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (66.24%) SQL Server
2 59 (24.89%) Power BI
3 54 (22.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (13.92%) Oracle Database
6 28 (11.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (6.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (6.33%) MySQL
9 14 (5.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.80%) Data Lake
12 8 (3.38%) OLAP
12 8 (3.38%) Star Schema
13 6 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.53%) Tableau
14 5 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.11%) Metadata
14 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.75%) Git
2 10 (4.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (2.95%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.53%) JIRA
4 6 (2.53%) tSQLt
5 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.69%) Mocha
5 4 (1.69%) MSTest
6 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.42%) ERwin
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.42%) Moq
7 1 (0.42%) MSI
7 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.42%) Toad
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 67 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (25.74%) Finance
3 40 (16.88%) Banking
4 39 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Advertising
8 4 (1.69%) Front Office
8 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Billing
10 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (38.40%) Developer
2 38 (16.03%) Consultant
3 30 (12.66%) C# Developer
4 28 (11.81%) Implementation Consultant
5 26 (10.97%) SQL Developer
6 25 (10.55%) Data Engineer
6 25 (10.55%) Senior
7 22 (9.28%) DBA
8 20 (8.44%) .NET Developer
8 20 (8.44%) SQL DBA
9 17 (7.17%) Lead
9 17 (7.17%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Payroll Consultant
11 10 (4.22%) Analyst
12 8 (3.38%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Workflow Consultant
13 7 (2.95%) Applications Support
13 7 (2.95%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.95%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (32.91%) .NET
2 39 (16.46%) .NET Framework
3 35 (14.77%) XML
4 15 (6.33%) ASP.NET
5 14 (5.91%) REST
5 14 (5.91%) WinForms
6 12 (5.06%) CSS
6 12 (5.06%) HTML
6 12 (5.06%) React
7 11 (4.64%) PySpark
7 11 (4.64%) WPF
8 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.38%) JSON
9 8 (3.38%) RESTful
9 8 (3.38%) SOAP
9 8 (3.38%) SPFx
9 8 (3.38%) Web Services
10 7 (2.95%) XSLT
11 6 (2.53%) jQuery
12 5 (2.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.49%) Clustering
2 13 (5.49%) Replication
3 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.11%) NHS
5 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.84%) Credit Risk
6 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.84%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.84%) Derivative
6 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.84%) Equities
6 2 (0.84%) Handset
6 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
6 2 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.10%) Windows
2 26 (10.97%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.95%) Linux
4 6 (2.53%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.91%) ETL
2 72 (30.38%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (24.05%) DevOps
4 49 (20.68%) Data Modelling
5 48 (20.25%) Agile
6 46 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (18.57%) Performance Tuning
8 43 (18.14%) CI/CD
9 42 (17.72%) Data Analysis
9 42 (17.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (15.19%) AI
11 33 (13.92%) Migration
12 30 (12.66%) Analytics
12 30 (12.66%) Workflow
13 23 (9.70%) Change Management
14 21 (8.86%) Unit Testing
15 20 (8.44%) Data Engineering
15 20 (8.44%) Data Integration
15 20 (8.44%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 232 (97.89%) SQL
2 78 (32.91%) C#
3 62 (26.16%) PL/SQL
4 39 (16.46%) Python
5 29 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.91%) VBA
8 12 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (4.22%) VB
10 6 (2.53%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.11%) Bash
11 5 (2.11%) Java
11 5 (2.11%) XPath
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) Tcl
13 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.28%) Degree
3 20 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.11%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CISA
7 1 (0.42%) CISSP
7 1 (0.42%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.35%) Data Quality
2 29 (12.24%) QA
3 6 (2.53%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.95%) SCOM
2 2 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (0.84%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (37.13%) Microsoft
2 58 (24.47%) Oracle
3 30 (12.66%) Citrix
4 18 (7.59%) Databricks
5 10 (4.22%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.95%) Sybase
7 5 (2.11%) OpenText
8 4 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.69%) Intapp
9 3 (1.27%) BMC
9 3 (1.27%) Remedy
9 3 (1.27%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.84%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.42%) Adobe
11 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.42%) Google
11 1 (0.42%) Informatica
11 1 (0.42%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.42%) QAD
11 1 (0.42%) Telerik