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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 421 315 293
Rank change year-on-year -106 -22 -46
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 111 202 308
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.00% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 137 205
10th Percentile £363 £363 £393
25th Percentile £402 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.27% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £546 £625 £595
90th Percentile £626 £688 £691
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
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 9,798 10,078 12,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 32.37% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,516 6,520 8,735
10th Percentile £347 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £673
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 275 405
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £44.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +2.00% +3.92% -0.60%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -38 71 £415 -29.36% 23
North of England -49 17 £402 +3.74% 17
North West -17 13 £426 +0.24% 12
Midlands -31 7 £550 +22.22% 7
East Midlands -10 6 £550 +54.49% 3
South West +3 4 £520 +26.06% 11
Yorkshire -45 4 £375 +55.09% 5
South East -26 3 £375 -31.82% 18
East of England -20 1 - - 7
West Midlands -44 1 - - 4
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 14 (12.61%) IIS
2 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.90%) Appian
3 1 (0.90%) Camunda
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.70%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.70%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 44 (39.64%) Azure
2 28 (25.23%) Power Platform
3 16 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (13.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (9.91%) Serverless
6 10 (9.01%) Azure Functions
7 8 (7.21%) AWS
7 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (6.31%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.31%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.31%) SaaS
9 6 (5.41%) AtomSphere
9 6 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.41%) Boomi
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.50%) Nutanix
11 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.91%) Internet
2 3 (2.70%) DHCP
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
2 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (74.77%) SQL Server
2 26 (23.42%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (19.82%) Power BI
4 19 (17.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (16.22%) Oracle Database
6 11 (9.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (8.11%) Data Lake
8 8 (7.21%) Metadata
9 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (6.31%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.50%) Power Query
10 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (4.50%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.50%) WebFOCUS
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Visual Studio
2 7 (6.31%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) ERwin
3 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) JIRA
4 1 (0.90%) Moq
4 1 (0.90%) NUnit
4 1 (0.90%) Poetry
4 1 (0.90%) Pylint
4 1 (0.90%) Selenium
4 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 38 (34.23%) Finance
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.51%) Banking
4 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Back Office
8 3 (2.70%) Front Office
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.90%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.90%) Law
10 1 (0.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (71.17%) Developer
2 24 (21.62%) C# Developer
3 14 (12.61%) .NET Developer
3 14 (12.61%) SQL Developer
4 12 (10.81%) Integration Developer
5 11 (9.91%) DBA
6 10 (9.01%) C# WPF Developer
6 10 (9.01%) WPF Developer
7 9 (8.11%) C# WCF Developer
7 9 (8.11%) WCF Developer
8 8 (7.21%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Analyst
9 7 (6.31%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (6.31%) ETL Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.04%) .NET
2 24 (21.62%) .NET Framework
3 15 (13.51%) WPF
4 13 (11.71%) JSON
4 13 (11.71%) XML
5 12 (10.81%) WCF
6 11 (9.91%) WinForms
7 10 (9.01%) REST
8 9 (8.11%) SOAP
9 8 (7.21%) Kafka
10 7 (6.31%) React
11 6 (5.41%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (5.41%) Web Services
12 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.50%) Middleware
12 5 (4.50%) RESTful
13 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET
13 4 (3.60%) PySpark
14 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.60%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.80%) Clustering
4 2 (1.80%) NHS
4 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.80%) Replication
5 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.90%) IoT
5 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.52%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (34.23%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (31.53%) CI/CD
3 32 (28.83%) Agile
4 31 (27.93%) DevOps
4 31 (27.93%) ETL
5 30 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (24.32%) Data Analysis
7 25 (22.52%) Analytics
8 23 (20.72%) Migration
9 21 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (17.12%) Data Modelling
11 16 (14.41%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (11.71%) Data Integration
12 13 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (11.71%) Validation
13 12 (10.81%) OO
13 12 (10.81%) OOP
13 12 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (9.91%) Data Engineering
14 11 (9.91%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 102 (91.89%) SQL
2 49 (44.14%) C#
3 31 (27.93%) PL/SQL
4 18 (16.22%) Python
5 17 (15.32%) VBA
6 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.11%) VB
9 7 (6.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (5.41%) Bicep
10 6 (5.41%) Groovy
10 6 (5.41%) Java
11 5 (4.50%) X++
12 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.90%) Bash
13 1 (0.90%) Korn
13 1 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (14.41%) Degree
2 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.70%) MCSE
7 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.90%) HP APS
7 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.90%) MCSA
7 1 (0.90%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.72%) QA
2 12 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.60%) GDPR
3 4 (3.60%) MiFID
4 3 (2.70%) EMIR
5 2 (1.80%) WCAG
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.90%) HL7
6 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Control-M
2 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 49 (44.14%) Microsoft
2 32 (28.83%) Oracle
3 17 (15.32%) Citrix
4 8 (7.21%) Databricks
4 8 (7.21%) VMware
5 5 (4.50%) EMC
6 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.60%) SAP
7 3 (2.70%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.70%) CQG
7 3 (2.70%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.80%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.80%) OpenText
8 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.90%) Google
9 1 (0.90%) HP
9 1 (0.90%) iManage
9 1 (0.90%) Northgate
9 1 (0.90%) Sage
9 1 (0.90%) Sybase