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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 379 327
Rank change year-on-year -10 -52 -50
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 199 104 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.43% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 1.26% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 77 166
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +1.52% +3.68%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -15.00% -3.85% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%

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 10,956 8,256 10,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.11% 33.83% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,276 5,716 7,945
10th Percentile £355 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.16%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 216 440
10th Percentile £42.44 £25.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £37.96 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% +0.83%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -26 108 £415 -19.02% 25
South East -22 40 £411 -6.03% 22
North of England -44 27 £500 +33.33% 19
North West -24 20 £500 +21.95% 11
South West -25 7 £475 -9.52% 3
Yorkshire -46 7 £408 +8.67% 8
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Midlands -77 3 £398 -6.47% 6
West Midlands -65 2 £398 -6.47% 3
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 24 (12.06%) IIS
2 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Mule
6 1 (0.50%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (22.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.50%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.51%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.50%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.18%) Azure
2 50 (25.13%) Power Platform
3 41 (20.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (19.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.03%) AWS
6 12 (6.03%) Power Automate
7 8 (4.02%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.52%) GitHub
8 7 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.52%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.52%) Serverless
9 4 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.01%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) Internet
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) DHCP
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) LAN
3 1 (0.50%) SMTP
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (69.85%) SQL Server
2 44 (22.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 40 (20.10%) Power BI
4 39 (19.60%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (14.57%) Oracle Database
6 26 (13.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (12.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (10.55%) Data Lake
9 15 (7.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (4.52%) Metadata
10 9 (4.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.02%) Spark SQL
12 7 (3.52%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.52%) Power Query
13 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (3.02%) MySQL
14 5 (2.51%) OLAP
14 5 (2.51%) Star Schema
15 4 (2.01%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 14 (7.04%) Visual Studio
2 13 (6.53%) Git
3 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.52%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.02%) JIRA
5 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.51%) Mocha
5 3 (1.51%) MSTest
5 3 (1.51%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.01%) Postman
7 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.50%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.50%) GitLab
7 1 (0.50%) Moq
7 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.50%) webpack
General
1 60 (30.15%) Finance
2 54 (27.14%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.07%) Banking
5 12 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.51%) Legal
8 4 (2.01%) Advertising
8 4 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.01%) Law
9 2 (1.01%) Local Government
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (41.71%) Developer
2 40 (20.10%) C# Developer
3 34 (17.09%) Consultant
4 29 (14.57%) Data Engineer
4 29 (14.57%) Implementation Consultant
5 21 (10.55%) SQL Developer
6 16 (8.04%) DBA
7 15 (7.54%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.53%) Payroll Consultant
8 13 (6.53%) Senior
8 13 (6.53%) SQL DBA
9 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (5.03%) Database Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Applications Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (4.02%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (4.02%) C# Application Developer
12 8 (4.02%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (29.65%) .NET
2 44 (22.11%) .NET Framework
3 32 (16.08%) XML
4 16 (8.04%) WinForms
5 14 (7.04%) PySpark
5 14 (7.04%) WPF
6 12 (6.03%) CSS
7 11 (5.53%) JSON
7 11 (5.53%) React
8 10 (5.03%) HTML
9 9 (4.52%) REST
10 8 (4.02%) RESTful
11 7 (3.52%) SPFx
11 7 (3.52%) YAML
12 5 (2.51%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.51%) Entity Framework
13 4 (2.01%) AngularJS
13 4 (2.01%) SOAP
14 3 (1.51%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.53%) Replication
2 11 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.52%) Clustering
4 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.02%) NHS
4 6 (3.02%) Wiki
5 5 (2.51%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.51%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.51%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.01%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.50%) Equities
8 1 (0.50%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.12%) Windows
2 22 (11.06%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.01%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) HPUX
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.20%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (30.15%) ETL
3 45 (22.61%) Analytics
3 45 (22.61%) Disaster Recovery
4 43 (21.61%) Agile
5 41 (20.60%) Data Analysis
5 41 (20.60%) Data Modelling
5 41 (20.60%) DevOps
6 38 (19.10%) CI/CD
7 34 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (16.08%) Migration
8 32 (16.08%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (13.57%) Unit Testing
10 26 (13.07%) Change Management
11 23 (11.56%) Dimensional Modelling
12 22 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (11.06%) Data Engineering
13 21 (10.55%) AI
14 18 (9.05%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 194 (97.49%) SQL
2 65 (32.66%) C#
3 63 (31.66%) PL/SQL
4 42 (21.11%) Python
5 24 (12.06%) PowerShell
6 19 (9.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (8.54%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.04%) VBA
9 13 (6.53%) VB
10 7 (3.52%) Bash
11 6 (3.02%) Bicep
12 3 (1.51%) Java
12 3 (1.51%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.54%) Degree
3 13 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.01%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (24.12%) QA
2 37 (18.59%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) IFRS
4 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.50%) Docker
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (2.51%) Terraform
2 3 (1.51%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) Control-M
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 77 (38.69%) Microsoft
2 57 (28.64%) Oracle
3 35 (17.59%) Citrix
4 28 (14.07%) Databricks
5 7 (3.52%) VMware
6 4 (2.01%) Remedy
7 3 (1.51%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.51%) BMC
7 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.51%) Sybase
8 2 (1.01%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.01%) Informatica
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) Google
9 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.50%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.50%) Sage
9 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.50%) Telerik