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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 320 290
Rank change year-on-year -117 -30 -36
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 107 195 295
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.64% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.98% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 130 195
10th Percentile £343 £355 £386
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £530 £623 £586
90th Percentile £628 £688 £698
UK median daily rate £415 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
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 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -45 68 £415 -27.83% 20
North of England -48 17 £396 +2.19% 22
North West -13 13 £402 -5.41% 16
Midlands -41 7 £550 +22.22% 16
East Midlands -16 6 £550 +54.49% 4
Yorkshire -45 4 £375 +55.09% 5
South West -12 3 £520 +22.35% 19
South East -42 3 £375 -31.82% 37
East of England -15 1 - - 12
West Midlands -35 1 - - 11
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 15 (14.02%) IIS
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.93%) Appian
3 1 (0.93%) Camunda
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.80%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.80%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.19%) Azure
2 26 (24.30%) Power Platform
3 16 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (14.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (9.35%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (9.35%) Serverless
5 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.41%) Azure Functions
6 8 (7.48%) Power Automate
7 7 (6.54%) AWS
7 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.54%) SaaS
8 6 (5.61%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.61%) Boomi
8 6 (5.61%) PowerApps
9 5 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (4.67%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.74%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.28%) Internet
2 3 (2.80%) DHCP
2 3 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (72.90%) SQL Server
2 25 (23.36%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (19.63%) Power BI
4 19 (17.76%) Oracle Database
5 17 (15.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (12.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.48%) Metadata
9 7 (6.54%) Data Lake
9 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
9 7 (6.54%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (4.67%) Power Query
10 5 (4.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.67%) Star Schema
11 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
12 3 (2.80%) DataStage
12 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.80%) Tableau
12 3 (2.80%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Visual Studio
2 8 (7.48%) Git
3 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Moq
5 1 (0.93%) NUnit
5 1 (0.93%) Poetry
5 1 (0.93%) Pylint
5 1 (0.93%) Selenium
5 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 36 (33.64%) Finance
2 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.02%) Banking
4 12 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Back Office
8 3 (2.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (71.96%) Developer
2 25 (23.36%) C# Developer
3 14 (13.08%) .NET Developer
4 12 (11.21%) Integration Developer
5 11 (10.28%) SQL Developer
6 10 (9.35%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) C# WCF Developer
7 8 (7.48%) C# WPF Developer
7 8 (7.48%) DBA
7 8 (7.48%) WCF Developer
7 8 (7.48%) WPF Developer
8 7 (6.54%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.54%) ETL Developer
9 6 (5.61%) Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.74%) Analyst Developer
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (37.38%) .NET
2 25 (23.36%) .NET Framework
3 14 (13.08%) WPF
4 13 (12.15%) XML
5 12 (11.21%) JSON
5 12 (11.21%) WinForms
6 11 (10.28%) WCF
7 9 (8.41%) REST
7 9 (8.41%) SOAP
8 8 (7.48%) Kafka
9 7 (6.54%) React
10 6 (5.61%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.61%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (5.61%) Web Services
11 5 (4.67%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.67%) Middleware
11 5 (4.67%) PySpark
11 5 (4.67%) RESTful
12 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET
13 3 (2.80%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.74%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.80%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.87%) Clustering
4 2 (1.87%) NHS
4 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.30%) Windows
2 12 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.58%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (33.64%) CI/CD
3 32 (29.91%) DevOps
4 31 (28.97%) Agile
4 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (27.10%) ETL
6 27 (25.23%) Data Analysis
7 24 (22.43%) Analytics
8 21 (19.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (19.63%) Migration
9 19 (17.76%) Data Modelling
10 17 (15.89%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (13.08%) Validation
12 13 (12.15%) Data Engineering
13 12 (11.21%) Change Management
13 12 (11.21%) OO
13 12 (11.21%) OOP
13 12 (11.21%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (10.28%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 98 (91.59%) SQL
2 49 (45.79%) C#
3 32 (29.91%) PL/SQL
4 19 (17.76%) Python
5 15 (14.02%) VBA
6 13 (12.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.41%) VB
8 7 (6.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (5.61%) Bicep
9 6 (5.61%) Groovy
9 6 (5.61%) Java
10 5 (4.67%) X++
11 1 (0.93%) Bash
11 1 (0.93%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Degree
2 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) HP APS
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) MCSE
7 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (23.36%) QA
2 14 (13.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.74%) MiFID
4 3 (2.80%) EMIR
4 3 (2.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) HL7
6 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Terraform
2 4 (3.74%) Control-M
2 4 (3.74%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 46 (42.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (31.78%) Oracle
3 19 (17.76%) Citrix
4 10 (9.35%) Databricks
5 8 (7.48%) VMware
6 5 (4.67%) EMC
7 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.74%) SAP
8 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.80%) CQG
8 3 (2.80%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.87%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.87%) OpenText
9 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.93%) HP
10 1 (0.93%) iManage
10 1 (0.93%) Okta
10 1 (0.93%) Sage
10 1 (0.93%) Sybase
10 1 (0.93%) Workday