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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 325 302
Rank change year-on-year -104 -23 -47
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 104 185 273
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.64% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.96% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 122 181
10th Percentile £350 £351 £385
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £550 £605 £585
90th Percentile £644 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%

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 9,799 9,439 11,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.15% 32.58% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,486 6,150 8,338
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 231 388
10th Percentile £33.75 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.05 £44.75 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -45 68 £415 -27.83% 29
North of England -58 14 £450 +12.50% 12
North West -28 10 £450 +9.09% 10
South East -49 5 £475 -13.64% 27
Midlands -52 5 £550 +22.22% 15
East Midlands -19 4 £550 +54.49% 8
Yorkshire -43 4 £375 - 2
South West -7 3 £469 +10.29% 12
West Midlands -41 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 - - 5
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 15 (14.42%) IIS
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.92%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.23%) Azure
2 26 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 21 (20.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (18.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) Serverless
7 7 (6.73%) Azure Functions
7 7 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.73%) SaaS
8 6 (5.77%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.77%) AWS
8 6 (5.77%) Boomi
8 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.77%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.81%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.81%) GitHub
9 5 (4.81%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.85%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.58%) Internet
2 3 (2.88%) DHCP
2 3 (2.88%) DNS
2 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) LAN
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
3 1 (0.96%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (74.04%) SQL Server
2 25 (24.04%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (22.12%) Power BI
4 19 (18.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (17.31%) Oracle Database
6 12 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (11.54%) Data Lake
7 10 (9.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.77%) Metadata
9 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.81%) Power Query
10 5 (4.81%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.88%) Data Vault
11 3 (2.88%) DataStage
11 3 (2.88%) Tableau
12 2 (1.92%) OLAP Cube
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
1 9 (8.65%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.96%) GitLab
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) Moq
4 1 (0.96%) NUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Poetry
4 1 (0.96%) Pylint
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 36 (34.62%) Finance
2 26 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.46%) Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.81%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Back Office
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Front Office
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Advertising
9 1 (0.96%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (66.35%) Developer
2 25 (24.04%) C# Developer
3 14 (13.46%) .NET Developer
4 10 (9.62%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Integration Developer
5 9 (8.65%) SQL Developer
6 7 (6.73%) Architect
6 7 (6.73%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (6.73%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) C# WPF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) ETL Developer
6 7 (6.73%) WCF Developer
6 7 (6.73%) WPF Developer
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Developer
7 6 (5.77%) DBA
8 5 (4.81%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (3.85%) Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (36.54%) .NET
2 24 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 14 (13.46%) WPF
4 13 (12.50%) JSON
4 13 (12.50%) XML
5 12 (11.54%) WinForms
6 10 (9.62%) WCF
7 9 (8.65%) REST
7 9 (8.65%) SOAP
8 7 (6.73%) Kafka
8 7 (6.73%) PySpark
8 7 (6.73%) React
9 6 (5.77%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
9 6 (5.77%) Web Services
10 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.81%) Middleware
10 5 (4.81%) RESTful
11 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.88%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.92%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.92%) NHS
4 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.96%) Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.96%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) CI/CD
2 36 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (32.69%) DevOps
4 32 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (28.85%) Agile
5 30 (28.85%) ETL
6 26 (25.00%) Analytics
7 24 (23.08%) Data Analysis
8 23 (22.12%) Migration
9 21 (20.19%) Data Modelling
10 19 (18.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (14.42%) Data Engineering
13 14 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (13.46%) Validation
14 12 (11.54%) Data Governance
14 12 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
15 11 (10.58%) OO
15 11 (10.58%) OOP
16 10 (9.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (91.35%) SQL
2 46 (44.23%) C#
3 31 (29.81%) PL/SQL
4 21 (20.19%) Python
5 15 (14.42%) VBA
6 12 (11.54%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.65%) VB
8 7 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (5.77%) Bicep
9 6 (5.77%) Groovy
9 6 (5.77%) Java
10 3 (2.88%) X++
11 1 (0.96%) Bash
11 1 (0.96%) Scala
11 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Degree
2 12 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) HP APS
7 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.96%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) QA
2 15 (14.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.88%) MiFID
4 2 (1.92%) EMIR
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
4 2 (1.92%) WCAG
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.96%) HL7
5 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.77%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Control-M
2 4 (3.85%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.96%) Grafana
3 1 (0.96%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 47 (45.19%) Microsoft
2 31 (29.81%) Oracle
3 18 (17.31%) Citrix
4 15 (14.42%) Databricks
5 9 (8.65%) VMware
6 5 (4.81%) EMC
7 4 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.85%) SAP
8 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.92%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.92%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.92%) CQG
9 2 (1.92%) Informatica
9 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.92%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.96%) HP
10 1 (0.96%) iManage
10 1 (0.96%) Okta
10 1 (0.96%) Sage
10 1 (0.96%) Workday