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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 323 314
Rank change year-on-year -114 -9 -67
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 108 164 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.61% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 1.87% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 109 160
10th Percentile £351 £350 £384
25th Percentile £403 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £647 £628 £684
UK median daily rate £415 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -12.63% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £9.19
25th Percentile - £45.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
% change year-on-year - +253.12% -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 9,737 8,761 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.77% 32.71% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,485 5,636 7,867
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 209 396
10th Percentile £39.80 £25.26 £35.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £47.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £79.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 January 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 January 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 -44 70 £415 -20.95% 59
North of England -60 14 £450 +23.12% 25
North West -25 10 £450 +33.14% 19
South West -16 5 £550 +15.79% 22
South East -46 5 £475 -9.52% 46
Yorkshire -49 4 £375 - 5
Midlands -53 4 £550 +22.22% 19
East Midlands -25 3 £550 +54.49% 11
West Midlands -43 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 - - 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 16 (14.81%) IIS
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.15%) Azure
2 32 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 29 (26.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (23.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.33%) Serverless
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Functions
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.48%) SaaS
8 6 (5.56%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.56%) AWS
8 6 (5.56%) Boomi
8 6 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.63%) GitHub
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) Internet
2 3 (2.78%) DHCP
2 3 (2.78%) DNS
2 3 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) LAN
3 1 (0.93%) VPN
3 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (70.37%) SQL Server
2 29 (26.85%) Power BI
3 23 (21.30%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (20.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (19.44%) Oracle Database
6 13 (12.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (12.04%) Data Lake
7 8 (7.41%) Power Query
7 8 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (6.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (5.56%) Metadata
9 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.63%) DataStage
10 5 (4.63%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (4.63%) Spark SQL
10 5 (4.63%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.78%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.85%) TeamCity
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%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 33 (30.56%) Finance
2 27 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.67%) Banking
4 12 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Back Office
9 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.93%) Front Office
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (62.96%) Developer
2 30 (27.78%) C# Developer
3 17 (15.74%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.04%) .NET Developer
5 10 (9.26%) Integration Developer
6 9 (8.33%) Architect
7 8 (7.41%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.41%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.48%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.48%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (6.48%) C# WPF Developer
8 7 (6.48%) WCF Developer
8 7 (6.48%) WPF Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.63%) DBA
10 5 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.96%) .NET
2 28 (25.93%) .NET Framework
3 15 (13.89%) WPF
4 13 (12.04%) WinForms
5 12 (11.11%) PySpark
6 10 (9.26%) WCF
7 9 (8.33%) JSON
7 9 (8.33%) REST
7 9 (8.33%) SOAP
7 9 (8.33%) XML
8 6 (5.56%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.56%) Kafka
8 6 (5.56%) React
9 5 (4.63%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.63%) Middleware
9 5 (4.63%) Web Services
10 3 (2.78%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.78%) Express.js
10 3 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.78%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.93%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (29.63%) Windows
2 17 (15.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.52%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 37 (34.26%) DevOps
4 33 (30.56%) Analytics
5 31 (28.70%) Agile
5 31 (28.70%) ETL
6 30 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 23 (21.30%) Data Analysis
8 23 (21.30%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (16.67%) Migration
10 15 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (12.96%) Change Management
11 14 (12.96%) Data Engineering
12 13 (12.04%) Data Architecture
12 13 (12.04%) Data Governance
13 12 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (11.11%) Unit Testing
14 11 (10.19%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (91.67%) SQL
2 49 (45.37%) C#
3 39 (36.11%) PL/SQL
4 24 (22.22%) Python
5 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.11%) VBA
6 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
7 10 (9.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (9.26%) VB
8 6 (5.56%) Groovy
8 6 (5.56%) Java
9 5 (4.63%) Bicep
10 3 (2.78%) X++
11 1 (0.93%) Bash
11 1 (0.93%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (18.52%) Degree
2 14 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) HP APS
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.07%) QA
2 19 (17.59%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) MiFID
3 2 (1.85%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) EMIR
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) HL7
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) Grafana
2 1 (0.93%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (45.37%) Microsoft
2 38 (35.19%) Oracle
3 25 (23.15%) Databricks
4 23 (21.30%) Citrix
5 5 (4.63%) VMware
6 4 (3.70%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.70%) SAP
7 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.85%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.85%) Informatica
8 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.93%) CQG
9 1 (0.93%) EMC
9 1 (0.93%) HP
9 1 (0.93%) iManage
9 1 (0.93%) Okta
9 1 (0.93%) Sage
9 1 (0.93%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.93%) Workday