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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 317 287
Rank change year-on-year -131 -30 -38
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 105 200 317
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.65% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 2.00% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 139 209
10th Percentile £363 £363 -
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £689
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.95% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%

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 9,648 9,986 12,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.29% 32.32% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 6,501 9,086
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 247 418
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.22
25th Percentile £47.00 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.32 £65.00 £61.92
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +4.97% +0.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.21
% change year-on-year - +3.80% +0.35%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -44 69 £428 -27.23% 61
North of England -48 14 £390 +0.65% 26
North West -24 10 £420 -1.18% 10
Midlands -36 7 £550 +22.22% 25
East Midlands -13 6 £550 +54.49% 17
South West +8 4 £520 +26.06% 17
Yorkshire -39 4 £375 +55.09% 13
South East -25 3 £375 -31.82% 16
East of England -20 1 - - 9
West Midlands -35 1 - - 7
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 13 (12.38%) IIS
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.95%) Appian
3 1 (0.95%) Camunda
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.86%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.86%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) Azure
2 30 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 17 (16.19%) Azure Data Factory
3 17 (16.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 12 (11.43%) Serverless
5 11 (10.48%) Azure Functions
5 11 (10.48%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (7.62%) AWS
6 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.67%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.67%) PowerApps
7 7 (6.67%) SaaS
8 6 (5.71%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (5.71%) Boomi
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.76%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Internet
2 2 (1.90%) DHCP
2 2 (1.90%) DNS
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 24 (22.86%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (22.86%) Power BI
3 20 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (19.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (15.24%) Oracle Database
5 11 (10.48%) Data Lake
5 11 (10.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (7.62%) Metadata
7 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (4.76%) WebFOCUS
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.81%) Power Query
10 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.86%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.86%) ERwin
4 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) JIRA
5 1 (0.95%) Moq
5 1 (0.95%) Poetry
5 1 (0.95%) Pylint
5 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.95%) tSQLt
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (32.38%) Finance
2 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.38%) Banking
4 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Back Office
7 3 (2.86%) Front Office
8 2 (1.90%) Advertising
8 2 (1.90%) Digital Health
8 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.95%) Law
9 1 (0.95%) Local Government
9 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (70.48%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 14 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Integration Developer
5 11 (10.48%) .NET Developer
5 11 (10.48%) C# WPF Developer
5 11 (10.48%) WPF Developer
6 10 (9.52%) C# WCF Developer
6 10 (9.52%) DBA
6 10 (9.52%) WCF Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Analyst
7 7 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Architect
8 6 (5.71%) Azure Architect
8 6 (5.71%) ETL Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
9 5 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.76%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.24%) .NET
2 22 (20.95%) .NET Framework
3 15 (14.29%) WPF
4 13 (12.38%) JSON
4 13 (12.38%) XML
5 12 (11.43%) WCF
6 11 (10.48%) REST
7 10 (9.52%) WinForms
8 8 (7.62%) Kafka
8 8 (7.62%) SOAP
9 7 (6.67%) .NET Core
9 7 (6.67%) React
10 6 (5.71%) RESTful
10 6 (5.71%) Web Services
11 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 4 (3.81%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
12 4 (3.81%) Middleware
12 4 (3.81%) PySpark
13 3 (2.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.81%) Data Fabric
1 4 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.86%) Clustering
2 3 (2.86%) Fixed Income
2 3 (2.86%) NHS
2 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.90%) Replication
4 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.95%) IoT
4 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 31 (29.52%) DevOps
3 30 (28.57%) ETL
4 29 (27.62%) Agile
5 28 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (24.76%) Data Analysis
7 24 (22.86%) Analytics
8 23 (21.90%) Migration
9 20 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (18.10%) Data Modelling
11 14 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (12.38%) Validation
13 12 (11.43%) Data Engineering
13 12 (11.43%) Data Integration
13 12 (11.43%) Data Management
14 11 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (10.48%) Translating Business Requirements
15 10 (9.52%) Data Governance
15 10 (9.52%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 97 (92.38%) SQL
2 44 (41.90%) C#
3 26 (24.76%) PL/SQL
4 18 (17.14%) VBA
5 17 (16.19%) Python
6 14 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 10 (9.52%) VB
8 7 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (5.71%) Bicep
9 6 (5.71%) Groovy
9 6 (5.71%) Java
10 5 (4.76%) X++
11 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.95%) Bash
12 1 (0.95%) Korn
12 1 (0.95%) Scala
12 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.29%) Degree
3 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.86%) MCSE
8 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.95%) MCSA
9 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) QA
2 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 4 (3.81%) MiFID
4 3 (2.86%) EMIR
5 2 (1.90%) HL7
5 2 (1.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Terraform
2 4 (3.81%) Control-M
2 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (40.95%) Microsoft
2 28 (26.67%) Oracle
3 14 (13.33%) Citrix
4 7 (6.67%) Databricks
4 7 (6.67%) VMware
5 5 (4.76%) EMC
6 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.86%) CQG
7 3 (2.86%) SAP
7 3 (2.86%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.90%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.90%) OpenText
9 1 (0.95%) Google
9 1 (0.95%) iManage
9 1 (0.95%) Northgate
9 1 (0.95%) Okta
9 1 (0.95%) RedGate
9 1 (0.95%) Sybase
9 1 (0.95%) Workday