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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 389 336
Rank change year-on-year +6 -53 -63
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 220 94 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.15% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 75 169
10th Percentile £348 £355 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £683 £650
UK median daily rate £453 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.13% -7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%

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 11,114 8,160 11,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.60% 34.02% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,306 5,650 7,993
10th Percentile £358 £359 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -4.09%
75th Percentile £613 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 197 468
10th Percentile £37.25 £28.32 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.00 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -21 113 £464 -7.20% 27
South East -10 53 £411 -6.03% 21
North of England -56 30 £405 +8.00% 17
North West -15 21 £405 -14.74% 9
Yorkshire -57 9 £408 +8.67% 5
South West -27 7 £475 -9.09% 11
Midlands -65 4 £398 -3.64% 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
West Midlands -60 3 £398 -6.47% 4
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 20 (9.09%) IIS
2 11 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.82%) Confluence
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) Appian
4 3 (1.36%) Camunda
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) Mule
6 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 43 (19.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.45%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.36%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.36%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.45%) Azure
2 63 (28.64%) Power Platform
3 40 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (16.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.64%) AWS
7 12 (5.45%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.55%) Serverless
9 8 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.64%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.18%) GitHub
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.82%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.00%) Internet
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) LAN
3 1 (0.45%) SMTP
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (65.45%) SQL Server
2 54 (24.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 52 (23.64%) Power BI
4 40 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 29 (13.18%) Oracle Database
6 29 (13.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (9.55%) Data Lake
8 17 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.55%) Spark SQL
10 9 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.64%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.73%) DataStage
12 6 (2.73%) Metadata
12 6 (2.73%) MySQL
12 6 (2.73%) Power Query
12 6 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (2.27%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 13 (5.91%) Git
2 10 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.18%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.73%) JIRA
5 5 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.27%) Mocha
5 5 (2.27%) MSTest
5 5 (2.27%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.91%) Postman
7 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.45%) ERwin
7 1 (0.45%) GitLab
7 1 (0.45%) Moq
7 1 (0.45%) MSI
7 1 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.45%) webpack
General
1 60 (27.27%) Finance
2 53 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.00%) Banking
4 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Legal
8 4 (1.82%) Advertising
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (35.91%) Developer
2 35 (15.91%) Consultant
3 33 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 30 (13.64%) C# Developer
5 29 (13.18%) Implementation Consultant
6 26 (11.82%) SQL Developer
7 23 (10.45%) Microsoft Engineer
8 18 (8.18%) Senior
9 16 (7.27%) DBA
10 15 (6.82%) SQL DBA
11 13 (5.91%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.91%) Payroll Consultant
12 9 (4.09%) Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Database Developer
12 9 (4.09%) Lead
13 8 (3.64%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.64%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Workflow Consultant
14 7 (3.18%) C# Application Developer
14 7 (3.18%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (26.36%) .NET
2 37 (16.82%) .NET Framework
3 33 (15.00%) XML
4 15 (6.82%) CSS
4 15 (6.82%) PySpark
5 13 (5.91%) HTML
6 12 (5.45%) JSON
6 12 (5.45%) REST
7 11 (5.00%) React
7 11 (5.00%) WinForms
7 11 (5.00%) WPF
8 10 (4.55%) RESTful
9 8 (3.64%) SPFx
10 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.27%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.27%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.27%) Kafka
11 5 (2.27%) YAML
12 4 (1.82%) Middleware
12 4 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Replication
1 13 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.09%) Clustering
3 8 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.73%) NHS
4 6 (2.73%) Wiki
5 4 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.82%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.91%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.91%) Equities
7 2 (0.91%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.45%) Derivative
8 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.45%) Life Science
8 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.09%) Windows
2 19 (8.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.18%) Linux
4 4 (1.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) HPUX
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 77 (35.00%) ETL
3 49 (22.27%) Data Modelling
4 45 (20.45%) DevOps
4 45 (20.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 44 (20.00%) Agile
6 43 (19.55%) Analytics
7 40 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 39 (17.73%) Data Analysis
9 36 (16.36%) Migration
10 35 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
11 34 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (11.36%) AI
13 25 (11.36%) Unit Testing
14 24 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (10.45%) Change Management
15 23 (10.45%) Workflow
16 22 (10.00%) Data Engineering
17 21 (9.55%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 215 (97.73%) SQL
2 63 (28.64%) C#
3 60 (27.27%) PL/SQL
4 47 (21.36%) Python
5 26 (11.82%) PowerShell
6 21 (9.55%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (5.45%) VBA
9 11 (5.00%) VB
10 6 (2.73%) Bash
10 6 (2.73%) Bicep
11 4 (1.82%) Java
12 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.91%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.82%) Degree
3 14 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 40 (18.18%) QA
2 5 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS
4 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.45%) Control-M
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 54 (24.55%) Oracle
3 31 (14.09%) Citrix
4 28 (12.73%) Databricks
5 6 (2.73%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.73%) VMware
6 4 (1.82%) Remedy
6 4 (1.82%) Sybase
7 3 (1.36%) BMC
7 3 (1.36%) OpenText
7 3 (1.36%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.91%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.91%) Informatica
8 2 (0.91%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.45%) Adobe
9 1 (0.45%) Foundry
9 1 (0.45%) Google
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.45%) Splunk
9 1 (0.45%) Telerik