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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 340 346
Rank change year-on-year -93 +6 -87
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 129 142 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.64% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 89 150
10th Percentile £324 £345 £360
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £576
90th Percentile £655 £628 £639
UK median daily rate £440 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £27.82 £9.14
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £13.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +136.20% -63.74%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £24.61
90th Percentile - - £26.19
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £20.71
% change year-on-year -44.79% +136.20% -63.74%

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 10,390 8,641 11,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.73% 33.42% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,919 5,630 7,987
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 204 473
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.26
25th Percentile £53.53 £42.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.07
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.05% -7.58%

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 21 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 21 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 -29 82 £415 -17.00% 12
South East -46 13 £464 -15.68% 44
North of England -68 11 £426 +19.66% 22
North West -31 8 £426 +26.04% 18
South West -15 6 £550 +4.76% 8
Midlands -67 4 £473 +11.18% 19
East Midlands -26 3 £550 +54.49% 8
Yorkshire -66 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £211 - 6
West Midlands -62 1 £395 -12.22% 11
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 (13.95%) IIS
2 2 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.78%) Mule
3 1 (0.78%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.55%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.51%) Azure
2 36 (27.91%) Power Platform
3 33 (25.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (24.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (19.38%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.75%) Serverless
7 9 (6.98%) GitHub
8 8 (6.20%) AWS
8 8 (6.20%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.43%) SaaS
10 6 (4.65%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.65%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.65%) Boomi
11 5 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.88%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.33%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) Internet
2 3 (2.33%) DHCP
2 3 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.78%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) LAN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (72.87%) SQL Server
2 39 (30.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (23.26%) Power BI
5 22 (17.05%) Oracle Database
6 19 (14.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (13.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (13.18%) Data Lake
9 14 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (6.20%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (4.65%) Metadata
11 6 (4.65%) Power Query
12 5 (3.88%) DataStage
12 5 (3.88%) Delta Lake
12 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.88%) Spark SQL
12 5 (3.88%) Star Schema
13 4 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (2.33%) Data Vault
15 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Visual Studio
2 12 (9.30%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.33%) JIRA
5 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.55%) Mocha
5 2 (1.55%) MSTest
5 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.55%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) NUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.78%) Pylint
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (33.33%) Finance
2 32 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.28%) Banking
4 19 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Law
7 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Local Government
8 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (56.59%) Developer
2 31 (24.03%) C# Developer
3 27 (20.93%) Data Engineer
4 14 (10.85%) SQL Developer
5 9 (6.98%) .NET Developer
5 9 (6.98%) Architect
5 9 (6.98%) Azure Developer
5 9 (6.98%) Integration Developer
6 8 (6.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (6.20%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.43%) Database Developer
7 7 (5.43%) DBA
7 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Applications Developer
8 6 (4.65%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (4.65%) Senior
8 6 (4.65%) SQL Database Developer
8 6 (4.65%) T-SQL Developer
9 5 (3.88%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.88%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) .NET
2 31 (24.03%) .NET Framework
3 16 (12.40%) WPF
4 14 (10.85%) WinForms
5 13 (10.08%) JSON
5 13 (10.08%) PySpark
6 11 (8.53%) XML
7 10 (7.75%) REST
7 10 (7.75%) SOAP
8 8 (6.20%) WCF
9 7 (5.43%) YAML
10 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.65%) React
11 5 (3.88%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.88%) CSS
11 5 (3.88%) Middleware
12 4 (3.10%) HTML
13 3 (2.33%) RESTful
13 3 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Replication
2 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.65%) Wiki
3 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.33%) Clustering
5 3 (2.33%) Data Fabric
5 3 (2.33%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Equities
7 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.91%) Windows
2 19 (14.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.55%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (49.61%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (34.11%) ETL
3 42 (32.56%) CI/CD
4 41 (31.78%) DevOps
5 38 (29.46%) Agile
6 37 (28.68%) Analytics
7 35 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (23.26%) Data Modelling
9 26 (20.16%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (20.16%) Disaster Recovery
10 25 (19.38%) Data Analysis
11 23 (17.83%) Migration
12 22 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (15.50%) Data Engineering
14 18 (13.95%) Unit Testing
15 17 (13.18%) Dimensional Modelling
16 16 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (12.40%) Data Governance
17 15 (11.63%) Change Management
17 15 (11.63%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 118 (91.47%) SQL
2 52 (40.31%) C#
3 45 (34.88%) PL/SQL
4 31 (24.03%) Python
5 16 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (10.85%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.30%) VBA
9 11 (8.53%) VB
10 8 (6.20%) Java
11 7 (5.43%) Bicep
11 7 (5.43%) Groovy
12 4 (3.10%) Bash
13 3 (2.33%) X++
14 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.78%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.78%) Scala
15 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Degree
1 17 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.98%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) HP APS
5 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (29.46%) QA
2 21 (16.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (3.10%) Terraform
2 2 (1.55%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.78%) Control-M
3 1 (0.78%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (47.29%) Microsoft
2 41 (31.78%) Oracle
3 26 (20.16%) Citrix
4 25 (19.38%) Databricks
5 9 (6.98%) VMware
6 4 (3.10%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.55%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.55%) Informatica
8 2 (1.55%) Sybase
9 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.78%) Google
9 1 (0.78%) HP
9 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) Remedy
9 1 (0.78%) Sage
9 1 (0.78%) Splunk
9 1 (0.78%) Workday