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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 424 295
Rank change year-on-year +6 -129 -21
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 213 93 260
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.34% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 1.02% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 77 198
10th Percentile £368 £344 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -15.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £617
90th Percentile £725 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £453 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 11,965 9,085 10,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.90% 32.74% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,734 6,156 7,381
10th Percentile £363 £345 £353
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 262 308
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £31.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.76 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.25 £67.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £79.88 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -28 122 £453 -2.05% 60
North of England -35 46 £405 -10.00% 14
North West -34 31 £440 -2.22% 10
South East -42 21 £410 +9.30% 19
Yorkshire -27 15 £350 -6.67% 4
Midlands -43 9 £413 -2.94% 16
West Midlands -42 8 £413 -2.94% 14
South West -40 6 £588 +12.98% 8
East of England -20 2 £425 - 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 20 (9.39%) IIS
2 19 (8.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.23%) Confluence
4 5 (2.35%) Appian
4 5 (2.35%) Camunda
4 5 (2.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.94%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) MTS
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (12.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.29%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (3.29%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.88%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.47%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 73 (34.27%) Azure
1 73 (34.27%) Power Platform
2 31 (14.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (10.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (8.45%) AWS
6 14 (6.57%) Power Automate
7 13 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.63%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.82%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.35%) Serverless
12 4 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.88%) GitHub
13 3 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) Internet
1 11 (5.16%) SSL
2 4 (1.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.94%) DHCP
3 2 (0.94%) DNS
3 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 2 (0.94%) LAN
3 2 (0.94%) PABX
3 2 (0.94%) VLAN
3 2 (0.94%) VoIP
3 2 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (73.24%) SQL Server
2 65 (30.52%) Power BI
3 58 (27.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (14.55%) Oracle Database
6 26 (12.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (7.98%) MySQL
8 12 (5.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (5.16%) Star Schema
10 9 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.76%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.76%) OLAP
11 8 (3.76%) Tableau
12 6 (2.82%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.82%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.88%) DataStage
14 4 (1.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.98%) Git
2 8 (3.76%) JIRA
2 8 (3.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.35%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.41%) Mocha
5 3 (1.41%) MSTest
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) Toad
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 62 (29.11%) Finance
3 43 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (18.78%) Banking
5 11 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.82%) Front Office
7 5 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.88%) Retail
9 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.41%) Law
9 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.94%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (39.91%) Developer
2 26 (12.21%) C# Developer
2 26 (12.21%) Data Engineer
2 26 (12.21%) Senior
3 25 (11.74%) DBA
4 24 (11.27%) SQL Developer
5 23 (10.80%) SQL DBA
6 20 (9.39%) Lead
7 16 (7.51%) .NET Developer
7 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Engineer
8 14 (6.57%) Applications Support
9 10 (4.69%) Analyst
10 9 (4.23%) Consultant
11 8 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.29%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.29%) SC Cleared DBA
13 6 (2.82%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.82%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (36.62%) .NET
2 33 (15.49%) .NET Framework
3 15 (7.04%) WinForms
4 14 (6.57%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.63%) PySpark
5 12 (5.63%) WPF
6 11 (5.16%) HTML
6 11 (5.16%) React
6 11 (5.16%) REST
7 10 (4.69%) CSS
8 8 (3.76%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.76%) SPFx
8 8 (3.76%) Web Services
9 7 (3.29%) JSON
9 7 (3.29%) SOAP
9 7 (3.29%) XML
9 7 (3.29%) XSLT
10 6 (2.82%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.82%) jQuery
10 6 (2.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Replication
2 15 (7.04%) Clustering
3 12 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.88%) NHS
7 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.94%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.94%) Derivative
8 2 (0.94%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.94%) Equities
8 2 (0.94%) Handset
8 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.94%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.47%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 60 (28.17%) Windows
2 33 (15.49%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.82%) Unix
4 5 (2.35%) Linux
5 2 (0.94%) HPUX
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (35.68%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (35.21%) ETL
3 58 (27.23%) DevOps
4 52 (24.41%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (22.07%) Agile
7 46 (21.60%) Data Modelling
8 45 (21.13%) Data Analysis
9 43 (20.19%) CI/CD
10 42 (19.72%) Disaster Recovery
11 38 (17.84%) AI
12 27 (12.68%) Analytics
13 26 (12.21%) Change Management
14 25 (11.74%) Lakehouse
15 24 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (10.80%) Migration
17 22 (10.33%) Data Integration
17 22 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (10.33%) Workflow
18 21 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 209 (98.12%) SQL
2 79 (37.09%) C#
3 60 (28.17%) PL/SQL
4 38 (17.84%) Python
5 28 (13.15%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.21%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (6.57%) VBA
8 11 (5.16%) VB
9 5 (2.35%) VB.NET
9 5 (2.35%) XPath
10 4 (1.88%) Java
11 3 (1.41%) Bash
12 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) Bicep
13 1 (0.47%) Tcl
13 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.68%) Degree
1 27 (12.68%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.16%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.47%) CISA
6 1 (0.47%) CISSP
6 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (15.96%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.27%) QA
3 7 (3.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (5.16%) Active Directory
1 11 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.63%) SCOM
2 2 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.47%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.47%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 90 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 61 (28.64%) Oracle
3 27 (12.68%) Citrix
4 18 (8.45%) Databricks
5 15 (7.04%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.82%) Sybase
7 5 (2.35%) OpenText
8 4 (1.88%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.88%) Intapp
9 3 (1.41%) BMC
9 3 (1.41%) Remedy
9 3 (1.41%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.94%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.47%) Informatica
11 1 (0.47%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.47%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.47%) QAD
11 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.47%) Telerik