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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 294 280
Rank change year-on-year -135 -14 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 98 227 338
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.72% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 2.21% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 162 229
10th Percentile £314 £363 -
25th Percentile £375 £445 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £493
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +16.75% +1.03%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.00 £17.41
25th Percentile - £45.63 £20.54
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +145.28% -24.29%
75th Percentile - - £37.38
90th Percentile - - £43.45
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +145.28% -24.29%

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 9,273 10,257 13,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.52% 32.48% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,176 6,755 9,478
10th Percentile £346 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 276 414
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £43.82 £46.25 £47.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -6.64% +2.40% +4.17%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -67 61 £450 -21.74% 27
North of England -46 14 £390 -5.45% 20
North West -21 10 £420 -6.67% 7
Midlands -33 8 £468 +3.89% 15
East Midlands -5 7 £468 +27.21% 6
South West +13 4 £520 +26.06% 8
Yorkshire -30 4 £375 +21.60% 6
South East -19 3 £375 -31.82% 35
East of England -9 1 - - 8
West Midlands -20 1 - - 9
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 9 (9.18%) IIS
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) Appian
4 1 (1.02%) Camunda
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (4.08%) OpenText MBPM
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (3.06%) Fidessa
4 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) Azure
2 28 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 14 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 12 (12.24%) Serverless
5 11 (11.22%) Azure Functions
5 11 (11.22%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (8.16%) AWS
7 7 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 7 (7.14%) SaaS
8 6 (6.12%) AtomSphere
8 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (6.12%) Boomi
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (5.10%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) Internet
2 2 (2.04%) DHCP
2 2 (2.04%) DNS
2 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (74.49%) SQL Server
2 22 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (21.43%) Power BI
3 21 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (19.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (12.24%) Oracle Database
6 11 (11.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (10.20%) Data Lake
8 7 (7.14%) Metadata
8 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (6.12%) Relational Database
10 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.10%) WebFOCUS
11 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (4.08%) Power Query
11 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
12 3 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (3.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Git
2 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.06%) ERwin
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.02%) GitLab
5 1 (1.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) Moq
5 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.02%) Poetry
5 1 (1.02%) Pylint
5 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.02%) tSQLt
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (29.59%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.06%) Back Office
8 3 (3.06%) Front Office
9 2 (2.04%) Advertising
9 2 (2.04%) Digital Health
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.04%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.02%) Local Government
10 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (67.35%) Developer
2 15 (15.31%) SQL Developer
3 14 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 12 (12.24%) Integration Developer
5 11 (11.22%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.20%) DBA
7 9 (9.18%) C# WPF Developer
7 9 (9.18%) WPF Developer
8 8 (8.16%) C# WCF Developer
8 8 (8.16%) WCF Developer
9 7 (7.14%) Analyst
9 7 (7.14%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Architect
10 6 (6.12%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Architect
11 5 (5.10%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
11 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.10%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.63%) .NET
2 14 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 14 (14.29%) WPF
3 13 (13.27%) JSON
3 13 (13.27%) XML
4 11 (11.22%) REST
5 10 (10.20%) WCF
6 8 (8.16%) Kafka
6 8 (8.16%) SOAP
6 8 (8.16%) WinForms
7 7 (7.14%) React
8 6 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.12%) RESTful
8 6 (6.12%) Web Services
9 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET
9 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (4.08%) Middleware
10 3 (3.06%) CSS
10 3 (3.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Data Fabric
1 4 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.06%) Clustering
2 3 (3.06%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.06%) NHS
3 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.04%) Replication
3 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.02%) IoT
4 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.61%) ETL
2 28 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (27.55%) Agile
3 27 (27.55%) CI/CD
3 27 (27.55%) DevOps
4 23 (23.47%) Migration
5 22 (22.45%) Data Analysis
6 21 (21.43%) Analytics
7 17 (17.35%) Data Modelling
8 15 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (15.31%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (14.29%) Data Management
10 13 (13.27%) Data Integration
10 13 (13.27%) Validation
11 11 (11.22%) Data Engineering
11 11 (11.22%) Data Migration
12 9 (9.18%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.18%) High Availability
13 8 (8.16%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 90 (91.84%) SQL
2 38 (38.78%) C#
3 19 (19.39%) PL/SQL
4 16 (16.33%) Python
4 16 (16.33%) VBA
5 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.18%) VB
8 6 (6.12%) Groovy
8 6 (6.12%) Java
9 5 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (5.10%) X++
10 4 (4.08%) Bicep
11 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.02%) Korn
12 1 (1.02%) Scala
12 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) Degree
3 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.06%) MCSE
8 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.02%) MCSA
9 1 (1.02%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.29%) QA
2 12 (12.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 4 (4.08%) MiFID
4 3 (3.06%) EMIR
5 2 (2.04%) HL7
5 2 (2.04%) WCAG
6 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.02%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Control-M
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
1 4 (4.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.43%) Oracle
3 9 (9.18%) Citrix
4 7 (7.14%) VMware
5 5 (5.10%) Databricks
5 5 (5.10%) EMC
6 4 (4.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.06%) CQG
7 3 (3.06%) OpenText
7 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 3 (3.06%) TOWER Software
8 2 (2.04%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.02%) Google
9 1 (1.02%) iManage
9 1 (1.02%) Northgate
9 1 (1.02%) Okta
9 1 (1.02%) RedGate
9 1 (1.02%) Sybase
9 1 (1.02%) Workday