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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 355 334
Rank change year-on-year -53 -21 -68
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 190 117 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.42% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 87 154
10th Percentile £319 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £31.50 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.78%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £18.76
90th Percentile - £34.43 £20.68
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.78%

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 10,958 8,223 10,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.02% 33.76% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,313 5,656 7,874
10th Percentile £353 £361 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 212 432
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -31 102 £415 -20.95% 23
South East -24 38 £421 -19.76% 23
North of England -56 28 £426 +13.60% 16
North West -19 19 £426 +19.66% 9
Yorkshire -51 9 £408 +8.67% 6
South West -19 7 £475 -9.52% 14
East of England - 4 £211 - 10
West Midlands -63 2 £398 -6.47% 8
Midlands -72 2 £398 -6.47% 19
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 (11.58%) IIS
2 4 (2.11%) Confluence
2 4 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Mule
4 1 (0.53%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (23.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.58%) SystmOne
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.79%) Azure
2 42 (22.11%) Power Platform
3 41 (21.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.26%) AWS
7 9 (4.74%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.68%) Serverless
9 6 (3.16%) AtomSphere
9 6 (3.16%) Boomi
9 6 (3.16%) GitHub
9 6 (3.16%) SaaS
10 4 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.11%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.32%) Internet
2 2 (1.05%) DHCP
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
2 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) SMTP
3 1 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (64.74%) SQL Server
2 44 (23.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 39 (20.53%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (18.42%) Power BI
5 24 (12.63%) Oracle Database
5 24 (12.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 24 (12.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 20 (10.53%) Data Lake
7 14 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (4.21%) Metadata
9 8 (4.21%) Spark SQL
10 7 (3.68%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (3.68%) Power Query
11 6 (3.16%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (2.63%) MySQL
12 5 (2.63%) OLAP
13 4 (2.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (7.89%) Visual Studio
2 10 (5.26%) Git
3 7 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.63%) JIRA
5 3 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.58%) Mocha
5 3 (1.58%) MSTest
5 3 (1.58%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.05%) GitLab
6 2 (1.05%) Postman
7 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.53%) NUnit
7 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 58 (30.53%) Finance
2 48 (25.26%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.68%) Banking
5 13 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.16%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.63%) Legal
8 4 (2.11%) Advertising
8 4 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Local Government
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (44.74%) Developer
2 38 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 32 (16.84%) Consultant
4 29 (15.26%) Implementation Consultant
5 27 (14.21%) Data Engineer
6 20 (10.53%) SQL Developer
7 14 (7.37%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.84%) DBA
8 13 (6.84%) Payroll Consultant
9 12 (6.32%) Senior
10 11 (5.79%) SQL DBA
11 10 (5.26%) Database Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Microsoft Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Analyst
13 8 (4.21%) Applications Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Architect
13 8 (4.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (4.21%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (4.21%) C# Application Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.42%) .NET
2 39 (20.53%) .NET Framework
3 38 (20.00%) XML
4 16 (8.42%) JSON
5 15 (7.89%) PySpark
5 15 (7.89%) WinForms
6 14 (7.37%) WPF
7 13 (6.84%) REST
8 10 (5.26%) SOAP
9 9 (4.74%) CSS
9 9 (4.74%) React
10 7 (3.68%) HTML
10 7 (3.68%) RESTful
10 7 (3.68%) YAML
11 5 (2.63%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.63%) WCF
12 4 (2.11%) SPFx
13 3 (1.58%) ASP.NET
13 3 (1.58%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (1.58%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.32%) Replication
2 8 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.16%) Clustering
3 6 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.16%) NHS
3 6 (3.16%) Wiki
4 5 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.53%) Derivative
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.53%) Equities
7 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.53%) Life Science
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.11%) Windows
2 22 (11.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.11%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.89%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (29.47%) ETL
3 46 (24.21%) Analytics
4 45 (23.68%) DevOps
5 44 (23.16%) Agile
6 41 (21.58%) CI/CD
7 39 (20.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 39 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 38 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 30 (15.79%) Migration
9 30 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
10 29 (15.26%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (13.16%) Unit Testing
12 22 (11.58%) Change Management
12 22 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (11.05%) Data Engineering
13 21 (11.05%) Dimensional Modelling
14 18 (9.47%) AI
15 17 (8.95%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 178 (93.68%) SQL
2 65 (34.21%) C#
3 55 (28.95%) PL/SQL
4 39 (20.53%) Python
5 22 (11.58%) PowerShell
6 19 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (9.47%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.84%) VBA
9 12 (6.32%) VB
10 9 (4.74%) Java
11 8 (4.21%) Bicep
12 7 (3.68%) Groovy
13 6 (3.16%) Bash
14 3 (1.58%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.53%) C
15 1 (0.53%) C++
15 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.53%) Scala
15 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.95%) Degree
3 13 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (23.68%) QA
2 34 (17.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS
4 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (2.63%) Terraform
2 3 (1.58%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) Control-M
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 74 (38.95%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.26%) Oracle
3 32 (16.84%) Citrix
4 25 (13.16%) Databricks
5 8 (4.21%) VMware
6 4 (2.11%) Sybase
7 3 (1.58%) Remedy
7 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.05%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.05%) BMC
8 2 (1.05%) Informatica
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Google
9 1 (0.53%) HP
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) Sage
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) SAP