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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 357 347
Rank change year-on-year -49 -10 -90
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 173 123 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 1.48% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 86 144
10th Percentile £350 £338 £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 £638
UK median daily rate £445 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -6.32% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.21%
75th Percentile £27.50 £42.10 £18.76
90th Percentile - £55.84 £20.68
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.21%

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 10,669 8,336 10,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.96% 33.93% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,095 5,607 7,917
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% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 216 452
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £67.63
90th Percentile £76.25 £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 17 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 17 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 -31 91 £415 -17.00% 37
South East -24 36 £481 -6.10% 25
North of England -62 21 £450 +26.40% 18
North West -21 17 £426 +26.04% 10
South West -19 6 £525 - 24
Midlands -58 5 £400 +12.36% 18
Yorkshire -57 4 £600 +60.00% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 8
East Midlands -30 3 £550 +55.81% 8
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 (12.14%) IIS
2 3 (1.73%) Confluence
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.58%) Mule
4 1 (0.58%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 43 (24.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) InDesign
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.73%) SystmOne
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.58%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 68 (39.31%) Azure
2 39 (22.54%) Azure Data Factory
2 39 (22.54%) Power Platform
3 35 (20.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 28 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (5.78%) Serverless
6 8 (4.62%) AWS
6 8 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (4.05%) GitHub
7 7 (4.05%) Power Automate
7 7 (4.05%) SaaS
8 6 (3.47%) AtomSphere
8 6 (3.47%) Boomi
9 5 (2.89%) Azure Functions
9 5 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.31%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.94%) Internet
2 2 (1.16%) DHCP
2 2 (1.16%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) LAN
3 1 (0.58%) SMTP
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
3 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (62.43%) SQL Server
2 40 (23.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 35 (20.23%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (19.08%) Power BI
5 25 (14.45%) Oracle Database
6 21 (12.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (10.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (10.40%) Data Lake
9 15 (8.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (4.05%) Delta Lake
11 7 (4.05%) Power Query
11 7 (4.05%) Spark SQL
12 6 (3.47%) Metadata
12 6 (3.47%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (2.89%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.31%) DataStage
15 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 3 (1.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.67%) Visual Studio
2 11 (6.36%) Git
3 7 (4.05%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.73%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 3 (1.73%) Mocha
5 3 (1.73%) MSTest
5 3 (1.73%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.16%) GitLab
6 2 (1.16%) Postman
7 1 (0.58%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 51 (29.48%) Finance
2 40 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.72%) Banking
5 11 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.89%) Legal
8 4 (2.31%) Advertising
8 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.73%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.58%) Military
11 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (46.24%) Developer
2 36 (20.81%) C# Developer
3 30 (17.34%) Consultant
4 29 (16.76%) Implementation Consultant
5 26 (15.03%) Data Engineer
6 18 (10.40%) SQL Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Payroll Consultant
8 12 (6.94%) Senior
9 11 (6.36%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.20%) Architect
10 9 (5.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (5.20%) DBA
10 9 (5.20%) Integration Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (4.62%) Workflow Consultant
12 7 (4.05%) Applications Developer
12 7 (4.05%) Database Developer
12 7 (4.05%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (28.32%) .NET
2 39 (22.54%) XML
3 38 (21.97%) .NET Framework
4 16 (9.25%) JSON
5 15 (8.67%) WPF
6 14 (8.09%) PySpark
6 14 (8.09%) WinForms
7 12 (6.94%) REST
8 10 (5.78%) SOAP
9 7 (4.05%) CSS
9 7 (4.05%) YAML
10 6 (3.47%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.47%) WCF
11 5 (2.89%) HTML
11 5 (2.89%) React
11 5 (2.89%) RESTful
12 4 (2.31%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.31%) ASP.NET Web API
13 3 (1.73%) Entity Framework
13 3 (1.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) Replication
2 7 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.47%) Wiki
4 5 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.31%) Clustering
5 4 (2.31%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.73%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.73%) NHS
6 3 (1.73%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.58%) Equities
8 1 (0.58%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.54%) Windows
2 21 (12.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (39.88%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (28.90%) ETL
3 47 (27.17%) DevOps
4 43 (24.86%) CI/CD
5 41 (23.70%) Agile
5 41 (23.70%) Analytics
6 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (19.65%) Data Modelling
8 33 (19.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (18.50%) Migration
10 31 (17.92%) Data Analysis
11 27 (15.61%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (15.03%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (14.45%) Unit Testing
14 19 (10.98%) Data Engineering
14 19 (10.98%) Dimensional Modelling
15 18 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (9.83%) Change Management
16 17 (9.83%) Data Architecture
17 16 (9.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 162 (93.64%) SQL
2 58 (33.53%) C#
3 51 (29.48%) PL/SQL
4 34 (19.65%) Python
5 18 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (8.67%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.94%) VBA
9 11 (6.36%) VB
10 9 (5.20%) Java
11 7 (4.05%) Bicep
11 7 (4.05%) Groovy
12 5 (2.89%) Bash
13 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.73%) X++
14 1 (0.58%) C
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Scala
14 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.67%) Degree
3 12 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (24.86%) QA
2 26 (15.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) IFRS
3 1 (0.58%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) MiFID
3 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.31%) Terraform
2 3 (1.73%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.58%) Control-M
4 1 (0.58%) Grafana
4 1 (0.58%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 68 (39.31%) Microsoft
2 46 (26.59%) Oracle
3 30 (17.34%) Citrix
4 25 (14.45%) Databricks
5 8 (4.62%) VMware
6 3 (1.73%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.73%) SAP
6 3 (1.73%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.73%) Sybase
7 2 (1.16%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.16%) Informatica
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) HP
8 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.58%) Remedy
8 1 (0.58%) Sage
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce