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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 357 364
Rank change year-on-year -51 +7 -104
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 169 128 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.53% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 89 144
10th Percentile £350 £345 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £638 £725 £629
UK median daily rate £439 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -7.63% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £28.34 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.47 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £33.11 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +131.90% -74.99%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £18.76
90th Percentile - - £20.68
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.11 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.45% +131.90% -74.99%

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 10,701 8,379 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.06% 33.91% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,119 5,614 7,914
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 215 454
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.10 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -44 88 £415 -17.00% 35
South East -33 36 £481 -8.33% 22
North of England -63 21 £450 +26.40% 16
North West -24 17 £426 +26.04% 9
South West -21 6 £525 - 23
Midlands -60 5 £400 +5.82% 17
Yorkshire -59 4 £600 +60.00% 5
East Midlands -29 3 £550 +55.81% 7
East of England - 3 £211 - 9
West Midlands -65 2 £398 -16.32% 10
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 21 (12.43%) IIS
2 3 (1.78%) Confluence
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Mule
4 1 (0.59%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 43 (25.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) InDesign
4 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.59%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (38.46%) Azure
2 38 (22.49%) Power Platform
3 36 (21.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (18.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.92%) Serverless
7 8 (4.73%) AWS
7 8 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.14%) GitHub
8 7 (4.14%) Power Automate
8 7 (4.14%) SaaS
9 6 (3.55%) AtomSphere
9 6 (3.55%) Boomi
10 5 (2.96%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.10%) Internet
2 2 (1.18%) DHCP
2 2 (1.18%) DNS
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
2 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.59%) LAN
3 1 (0.59%) SMTP
3 1 (0.59%) VPN
3 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (62.72%) SQL Server
2 39 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (20.12%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (18.93%) Power BI
5 25 (14.79%) Oracle Database
6 19 (11.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (10.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (10.06%) Data Lake
9 14 (8.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (4.14%) Power Query
10 7 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (3.55%) Metadata
12 5 (2.96%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.96%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.96%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.37%) DataStage
14 3 (1.78%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Visual Studio
2 11 (6.51%) Git
3 7 (4.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.78%) Mocha
5 3 (1.78%) MSTest
5 3 (1.78%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.18%) GitLab
6 2 (1.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.59%) NUnit
7 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 49 (28.99%) Finance
2 40 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.02%) Banking
5 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.96%) Legal
8 4 (2.37%) Advertising
8 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.78%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Local Government
11 1 (0.59%) Military
11 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (46.75%) Developer
2 36 (21.30%) C# Developer
3 30 (17.75%) Consultant
4 29 (17.16%) Implementation Consultant
5 26 (15.38%) Data Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) SQL Developer
7 13 (7.69%) Payroll Consultant
8 11 (6.51%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Senior
10 9 (5.33%) Architect
10 9 (5.33%) DBA
10 9 (5.33%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Workflow Consultant
12 7 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
12 7 (4.14%) C# Application Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (28.99%) .NET
2 39 (23.08%) XML
3 38 (22.49%) .NET Framework
4 15 (8.88%) WPF
5 14 (8.28%) JSON
5 14 (8.28%) WinForms
6 12 (7.10%) PySpark
6 12 (7.10%) REST
7 10 (5.92%) SOAP
8 7 (4.14%) CSS
8 7 (4.14%) YAML
9 6 (3.55%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.55%) WCF
10 5 (2.96%) HTML
10 5 (2.96%) React
10 5 (2.96%) RESTful
11 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
11 4 (2.37%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (1.78%) Entity Framework
12 3 (1.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Replication
2 7 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.55%) Wiki
4 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.37%) Clustering
5 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.78%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.78%) NHS
6 3 (1.78%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.59%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.59%) Equities
8 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.59%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.08%) Windows
2 21 (12.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (39.64%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (28.40%) ETL
3 45 (26.63%) DevOps
4 43 (25.44%) CI/CD
5 40 (23.67%) Agile
5 40 (23.67%) Analytics
6 36 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (19.53%) Data Modelling
7 33 (19.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (18.93%) Migration
9 30 (17.75%) Data Analysis
10 26 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (14.79%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (14.79%) Unit Testing
12 18 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.65%) Data Engineering
12 18 (10.65%) Dimensional Modelling
13 17 (10.06%) Change Management
14 16 (9.47%) Data Architecture
15 15 (8.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 158 (93.49%) SQL
2 58 (34.32%) C#
3 51 (30.18%) PL/SQL
4 32 (18.93%) Python
5 16 (9.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (9.47%) PowerShell
6 15 (8.88%) JavaScript
7 12 (7.10%) VBA
8 11 (6.51%) VB
9 9 (5.33%) Java
10 7 (4.14%) Bicep
10 7 (4.14%) Groovy
11 5 (2.96%) Bash
12 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.78%) X++
13 1 (0.59%) C
13 1 (0.59%) C++
13 1 (0.59%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.59%) Scala
13 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.88%) Degree
3 11 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.37%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.44%) QA
2 23 (13.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) IFRS
3 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.59%) MiFID
3 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.37%) Terraform
2 3 (1.78%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.59%) Control-M
4 1 (0.59%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (27.22%) Oracle
3 30 (17.75%) Citrix
4 23 (13.61%) Databricks
5 8 (4.73%) VMware
6 3 (1.78%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.78%) SAP
6 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.78%) Sybase
7 2 (1.18%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.18%) Informatica
8 1 (0.59%) Adobe
8 1 (0.59%) Google
8 1 (0.59%) HP
8 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.59%) Remedy
8 1 (0.59%) Sage
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.59%) Splunk