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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 338 335
Rank change year-on-year -98 -3 -69
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 124 149 229
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 95 149
10th Percentile £350 £350 £332
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £576
90th Percentile £645 £625 £640
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £27.82 £9.19
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £13.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +165.68% -47.41%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £18.41
% change year-on-year -44.79% +165.68% -47.41%

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 10,281 8,738 11,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.04% 33.54% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,841 5,645 8,061
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £730 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 202 475
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £35.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -30 82 £415 -20.95% 13
North of England -64 12 £402 +12.92% 19
South East -43 10 £525 -8.70% 27
North West -30 8 £426 +26.04% 12
South West -9 6 £550 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -61 4 £375 - 6
East Midlands -28 3 £550 +54.49% 9
Midlands -67 3 £550 +29.41% 21
East of England - 3 £211 - 8
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 19 (15.32%) IIS
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Mule
3 1 (0.81%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.61%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.35%) Azure
2 36 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 32 (25.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (24.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.06%) Serverless
7 8 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (6.45%) GitHub
8 7 (5.65%) SaaS
9 6 (4.84%) AtomSphere
9 6 (4.84%) AWS
9 6 (4.84%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.84%) Boomi
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.03%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.42%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.48%) Internet
2 3 (2.42%) DHCP
2 3 (2.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (72.58%) SQL Server
2 35 (28.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (25.00%) Power BI
4 23 (18.55%) Oracle Database
5 19 (15.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (13.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (12.90%) Data Lake
8 13 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (6.45%) Power Query
9 8 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (4.03%) DataStage
10 5 (4.03%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.03%) Metadata
10 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.03%) Spark SQL
10 5 (4.03%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.42%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Visual Studio
2 12 (9.68%) Git
3 6 (4.84%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.42%) JIRA
5 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) MSTest
6 1 (0.81%) NUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.81%) Poetry
6 1 (0.81%) Postman
6 1 (0.81%) Pylint
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.81%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 39 (31.45%) Finance
2 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.55%) Banking
4 19 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.03%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Law
8 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Local Government
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (59.68%) Developer
2 32 (25.81%) C# Developer
3 25 (20.16%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) SQL Developer
5 9 (7.26%) .NET Developer
5 9 (7.26%) Architect
5 9 (7.26%) Integration Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Azure Developer
6 8 (6.45%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (5.65%) Database Developer
8 6 (4.84%) Applications Developer
8 6 (4.84%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (4.84%) C# WCF Developer
8 6 (4.84%) C# WPF Developer
8 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) SQL Database Developer
8 6 (4.84%) T-SQL Developer
8 6 (4.84%) WCF Developer
8 6 (4.84%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.06%) .NET
2 32 (25.81%) .NET Framework
3 17 (13.71%) WPF
4 15 (12.10%) WinForms
5 13 (10.48%) JSON
6 12 (9.68%) PySpark
7 11 (8.87%) XML
8 10 (8.06%) SOAP
9 9 (7.26%) REST
9 9 (7.26%) WCF
10 7 (5.65%) YAML
11 6 (4.84%) React
12 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
12 5 (4.03%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.03%) Middleware
13 4 (3.23%) CSS
14 3 (2.42%) HTML
14 3 (2.42%) Kafka
14 3 (2.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Replication
2 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.03%) Wiki
4 3 (2.42%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.61%) Clustering
5 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.61%) NHS
5 2 (1.61%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) Equities
6 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Windows
2 19 (15.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (50.81%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (33.06%) CI/CD
3 39 (31.45%) DevOps
3 39 (31.45%) ETL
4 35 (28.23%) Agile
5 34 (27.42%) Analytics
5 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.58%) Data Modelling
7 26 (20.97%) Data Analysis
7 26 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (20.16%) Data Pipeline
9 20 (16.13%) Migration
10 19 (15.32%) Data Engineering
11 18 (14.52%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (13.71%) Unit Testing
13 16 (12.90%) Dimensional Modelling
14 15 (12.10%) Change Management
14 15 (12.10%) Data Architecture
14 15 (12.10%) Data Governance
15 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 114 (91.94%) SQL
2 53 (42.74%) C#
3 46 (37.10%) PL/SQL
4 28 (22.58%) Python
5 15 (12.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.48%) VBA
8 12 (9.68%) VB
9 8 (6.45%) Java
10 7 (5.65%) Bicep
10 7 (5.65%) Groovy
11 3 (2.42%) X++
12 2 (1.61%) Bash
12 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.81%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) Degree
2 15 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.26%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) HP APS
8 1 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (30.65%) QA
2 19 (15.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) MiFID
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.81%) Control-M
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (45.97%) Microsoft
2 42 (33.87%) Oracle
3 27 (21.77%) Citrix
4 24 (19.35%) Databricks
5 8 (6.45%) VMware
6 4 (3.23%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.42%) SAP
8 2 (1.61%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.61%) Informatica
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.61%) Sybase
9 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.81%) Google
9 1 (0.81%) HP
9 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.81%) Okta
9 1 (0.81%) Sage
9 1 (0.81%) Workday