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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 334 328
Rank change year-on-year -117 -6 -69
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 113 152 240
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 1.74% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 98 152
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £488 £469
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% +4.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £576
90th Percentile £665 £629 £649
UK median daily rate £415 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -12.63% - -
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 10,066 8,749 11,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.19% 33.50% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,692 5,596 8,045
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £774 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 207 483
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.75 £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 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.25 £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 4 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 4 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 -38 72 £415 -20.95% 16
North of England -67 12 £402 +9.99% 19
North West -27 8 £426 +26.04% 12
South East -46 8 £525 -4.55% 21
South West -13 5 £550 +15.79% 7
Yorkshire -55 4 £375 - 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 9
East Midlands -29 3 £550 +54.49% 6
Midlands -67 3 £550 +29.41% 16
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 18 (15.93%) IIS
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.77%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.77%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.02%) Azure
2 31 (27.43%) Power Platform
3 28 (24.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (23.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (20.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (6.19%) GitHub
7 7 (6.19%) SaaS
7 7 (6.19%) Serverless
8 6 (5.31%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.31%) Boomi
8 6 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.31%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.42%) AWS
9 5 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.54%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.65%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) Internet
2 3 (2.65%) DHCP
2 3 (2.65%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (70.80%) SQL Server
2 28 (24.78%) Power BI
3 25 (22.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (21.24%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (19.47%) Oracle Database
6 12 (10.62%) Data Lake
7 10 (8.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (7.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (7.08%) Power Query
9 8 (7.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (4.42%) DataStage
10 5 (4.42%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.42%) Metadata
10 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.42%) Spark SQL
10 5 (4.42%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Visual Studio
2 8 (7.08%) Git
3 5 (4.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) GitLab
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.88%) Poetry
6 1 (0.88%) Postman
6 1 (0.88%) Pylint
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 37 (32.74%) Finance
2 25 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.58%) Banking
4 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Law
9 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (65.49%) Developer
2 33 (29.20%) C# Developer
3 19 (16.81%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.50%) SQL Developer
5 12 (10.62%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.96%) Architect
6 9 (7.96%) Integration Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Developer
8 7 (6.19%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.31%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (5.31%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Database Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.31%) WCF Developer
9 6 (5.31%) WPF Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) C# Application Developer
10 5 (4.42%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.17%) .NET
2 32 (28.32%) .NET Framework
3 16 (14.16%) WPF
4 14 (12.39%) WinForms
5 12 (10.62%) PySpark
6 9 (7.96%) JSON
6 9 (7.96%) SOAP
6 9 (7.96%) WCF
7 7 (6.19%) REST
7 7 (6.19%) XML
8 6 (5.31%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.31%) React
9 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (4.42%) Kafka
9 5 (4.42%) Middleware
10 3 (2.65%) CSS
10 3 (2.65%) Express.js
10 3 (2.65%) Web Services
10 3 (2.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.54%) Replication
2 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.65%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.77%) NHS
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 36 (31.86%) Windows
2 19 (16.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (47.79%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (37.17%) CI/CD
3 40 (35.40%) DevOps
4 33 (29.20%) Analytics
5 31 (27.43%) Agile
5 31 (27.43%) ETL
6 29 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (23.01%) Data Modelling
8 25 (22.12%) Data Analysis
8 25 (22.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (17.70%) Migration
10 19 (16.81%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (14.16%) Change Management
12 15 (13.27%) Data Architecture
12 15 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (13.27%) Unit Testing
13 13 (11.50%) Data Engineering
14 12 (10.62%) Data Governance
14 12 (10.62%) Translating Business Requirements
15 11 (9.73%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 104 (92.04%) SQL
2 50 (44.25%) C#
3 43 (38.05%) PL/SQL
4 23 (20.35%) Python
5 12 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.62%) VBA
6 11 (9.73%) VB
7 10 (8.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.31%) Groovy
8 6 (5.31%) Java
9 3 (2.65%) Bicep
9 3 (2.65%) X++
10 2 (1.77%) Bash
10 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (18.58%) Degree
2 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.96%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) HP APS
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (27.43%) QA
2 18 (15.93%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) WCAG
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Terraform
2 2 (1.77%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.88%) Control-M
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (43.36%) Microsoft
2 41 (36.28%) Oracle
3 26 (23.01%) Citrix
4 24 (21.24%) Databricks
5 7 (6.19%) VMware
6 4 (3.54%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.54%) SAP
7 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.77%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.77%) Informatica
8 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.88%) Google
9 1 (0.88%) HP
9 1 (0.88%) Okta
9 1 (0.88%) Sage
9 1 (0.88%) Splunk
9 1 (0.88%) Sybase
9 1 (0.88%) Workday