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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 283 271
Rank change year-on-year -139 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 92 264 378
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.81% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 2.50% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 198 266
10th Percentile £344 £363 -
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £554 £611 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £719
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £19.04
25th Percentile - - £24.63
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +145.28% -33.75%
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £66.51
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year - +145.28% -33.75%

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 8,983 10,542 13,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.62% 32.42% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,087 7,231 9,968
10th Percentile £345 £353 £374
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 304 419
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.73 £32.32
25th Percentile £42.25 £50.94 £48.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +10.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £71.22
90th Percentile £79.00 £79.75 £83.27
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +11.61%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing T-SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -79 61 £463 -19.57% 23
North of England -26 11 £450 +10.77% 30
Midlands -14 9 £425 -5.56% 16
North West -15 9 £450 +5.88% 13
East Midlands -3 5 £385 +10.79% 10
South West +12 4 £520 -2.12% 12
West Midlands -15 4 £425 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire -21 2 £375 +7.14% 11
East of England -1 1 - - 7
South East -3 1 £375 -31.03% 29
T-SQL
UK

T-SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (10.87%) IIS
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Appian
3 1 (1.09%) Camunda
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (3.26%) Fidessa
3 2 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.09%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 43 (46.74%) Azure
2 27 (29.35%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (10.87%) AWS
6 9 (9.78%) Serverless
7 8 (8.70%) Azure Functions
8 7 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.43%) GCP
10 5 (5.43%) Nutanix
11 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (3.26%) GitHub
12 3 (3.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) Internet
2 1 (1.09%) DHCP
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (77.17%) SQL Server
2 23 (25.00%) Power BI
3 22 (23.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (18.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (11.96%) Oracle Database
6 11 (11.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (10.87%) Data Lake
8 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (7.61%) Metadata
10 6 (6.52%) Power Query
11 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
11 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
11 5 (5.43%) WebFOCUS
12 3 (3.26%) Dremio
12 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (3.26%) Tableau
13 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Visual Studio
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (4.35%) Git
4 3 (3.26%) ERwin
5 2 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) GitLab
6 1 (1.09%) JIRA
6 1 (1.09%) Moq
6 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.09%) Poetry
6 1 (1.09%) Pylint
6 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) tSQLt
General
1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.78%) Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Back Office
6 3 (3.26%) Front Office
6 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Advertising
7 2 (2.17%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 56 (60.87%) Developer
2 15 (16.30%) SQL Developer
3 13 (14.13%) C# Developer
4 10 (10.87%) C# WPF Developer
4 10 (10.87%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) DBA
4 10 (10.87%) WPF Developer
5 9 (9.78%) C# WCF Developer
5 9 (9.78%) WCF Developer
6 8 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Analyst
7 7 (7.61%) Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) ETL Developer
8 5 (5.43%) SQL DBA
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.35%) BPM Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (36.96%) .NET
2 17 (18.48%) .NET Framework
3 13 (14.13%) WCF
4 12 (13.04%) WPF
5 9 (9.78%) WinForms
6 8 (8.70%) REST
6 8 (8.70%) Web Services
7 7 (7.61%) Kafka
8 6 (6.52%) .NET Core
8 6 (6.52%) ASP.NET
8 6 (6.52%) JSON
8 6 (6.52%) React
8 6 (6.52%) RESTful
8 6 (6.52%) XML
9 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (5.43%) CSS
9 5 (5.43%) HTML
10 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (4.35%) Entity Framework
11 3 (3.26%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.35%) Replication
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Clustering
3 3 (3.26%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.26%) NHS
3 3 (3.26%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.09%) IoT
5 1 (1.09%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.13%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) ETL
2 28 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 20 (21.74%) Migration
5 19 (20.65%) Analytics
5 19 (20.65%) Data Modelling
6 18 (19.57%) Agile
7 17 (18.48%) DevOps
8 16 (17.39%) Data Management
8 16 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (16.30%) Data Integration
10 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
11 12 (13.04%) Data Engineering
12 11 (11.96%) Data Governance
12 11 (11.96%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (10.87%) Data Migration
14 9 (9.78%) High Availability
14 9 (9.78%) OOP
14 9 (9.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (95.65%) SQL
2 37 (40.22%) C#
3 18 (19.57%) Python
4 17 (18.48%) VBA
5 16 (17.39%) PL/SQL
6 13 (14.13%) PowerShell
7 11 (11.96%) JavaScript
8 10 (10.87%) VB
9 8 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (4.35%) Bicep
11 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
12 2 (2.17%) X++
13 1 (1.09%) Korn
13 1 (1.09%) R
13 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Degree
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.26%) MCPD
7 3 (3.26%) MCSD
7 3 (3.26%) MCSE
8 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.09%) MCSA
9 1 (1.09%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) QA
2 10 (10.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.43%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.35%) GDPR
5 3 (3.26%) EMIR
5 3 (3.26%) MiFID
6 2 (2.17%) HL7
7 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.09%) SLA
7 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Control-M
1 4 (4.35%) Terraform
1 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.39%) Oracle
3 10 (10.87%) Citrix
4 7 (7.61%) Databricks
5 6 (6.52%) VMware
6 5 (5.43%) EMC
7 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.26%) CQG
8 3 (3.26%) Google
8 3 (3.26%) OpenText
8 3 (3.26%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.09%) iManage
9 1 (1.09%) Informatica
9 1 (1.09%) RedGate
9 1 (1.09%) SAP
9 1 (1.09%) Teradata
9 1 (1.09%) TSYS
9 1 (1.09%) Workday