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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 336 335
Rank change year-on-year -87 -1 -86
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 161 143 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.65% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 96 144
10th Percentile £350 £350 £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 £600 £576
90th Percentile £650 £681 £638
UK median daily rate £445 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -6.32% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -74.99%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £18.76
90th Percentile - - £20.68
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
% change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -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 10,695 8,693 11,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.37% 33.82% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 5,730 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £661
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 221 473
10th Percentile £41.83 £25.25 £35.10
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% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 7 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 7 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 -29 92 £415 -17.00% 24
South East -30 27 £481 -7.23% 21
North of England -65 16 £450 +26.40% 15
North West -30 12 £426 +26.04% 10
South West -18 8 £525 - 22
Midlands -74 5 £400 - 20
Yorkshire -62 4 £600 +60.00% 3
East Midlands -32 3 £550 +54.49% 9
East of England - 3 £211 - 8
West Midlands -59 2 £398 -11.67% 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 21 (13.04%) IIS
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) Mule
4 1 (0.62%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.62%) InDesign
4 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.24%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.62%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.62%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.61%) Azure
2 39 (24.22%) Power Platform
3 36 (22.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (19.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.83%) Serverless
7 9 (5.59%) AWS
8 8 (4.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.35%) GitHub
9 7 (4.35%) SaaS
10 6 (3.73%) AtomSphere
10 6 (3.73%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.73%) Boomi
10 6 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 5 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.45%) Internet
2 3 (1.86%) DHCP
2 3 (1.86%) DNS
2 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.62%) LAN
4 1 (0.62%) SMTP
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (65.84%) SQL Server
2 41 (25.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 35 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (20.50%) Power BI
5 26 (16.15%) Oracle Database
6 20 (12.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (11.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (11.18%) Data Lake
9 14 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (4.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (4.35%) Power Query
12 6 (3.73%) Metadata
12 6 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (3.11%) DataStage
13 5 (3.11%) Delta Lake
13 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
13 5 (3.11%) Spark SQL
13 5 (3.11%) Star Schema
14 3 (1.86%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Visual Studio
2 11 (6.83%) Git
3 7 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.86%) JIRA
5 3 (1.86%) Mocha
5 3 (1.86%) MSTest
5 3 (1.86%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.24%) GitLab
6 2 (1.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.62%) Selenium
7 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 49 (30.43%) Finance
2 37 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Banking
4 21 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.11%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.24%) Law
7 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Legal
8 1 (0.62%) Local Government
8 1 (0.62%) Military
8 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (51.55%) Developer
2 36 (22.36%) C# Developer
3 28 (17.39%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.18%) SQL Developer
5 17 (10.56%) Consultant
6 16 (9.94%) Implementation Consultant
7 13 (8.07%) .NET Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Senior
9 9 (5.59%) Architect
9 9 (5.59%) Azure Developer
9 9 (5.59%) DBA
9 9 (5.59%) Integration Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (4.97%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (4.35%) C# Application Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Database Developer
11 7 (4.35%) Payroll Consultant
11 7 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.68%) .NET
2 38 (23.60%) .NET Framework
3 26 (16.15%) XML
4 16 (9.94%) WPF
5 14 (8.70%) JSON
5 14 (8.70%) WinForms
6 12 (7.45%) PySpark
6 12 (7.45%) REST
7 11 (6.83%) SOAP
8 7 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.35%) CSS
8 7 (4.35%) WCF
8 7 (4.35%) YAML
9 6 (3.73%) React
10 5 (3.11%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (3.11%) HTML
10 5 (3.11%) Middleware
10 5 (3.11%) RESTful
11 3 (1.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.21%) Replication
2 7 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.73%) Wiki
4 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Clustering
5 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.86%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.86%) NHS
6 3 (1.86%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.62%) Equities
8 1 (0.62%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.62%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.47%) Windows
2 22 (13.66%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (31.06%) ETL
3 46 (28.57%) DevOps
4 45 (27.95%) CI/CD
5 42 (26.09%) Agile
6 41 (25.47%) Analytics
7 37 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (21.74%) Data Modelling
9 33 (20.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 30 (18.63%) Data Analysis
11 29 (18.01%) Migration
12 28 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (15.53%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (15.53%) Unit Testing
14 19 (11.80%) Data Engineering
15 18 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (11.18%) Dimensional Modelling
16 17 (10.56%) Change Management
16 17 (10.56%) Data Governance
17 16 (9.94%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (92.55%) SQL
2 60 (37.27%) C#
3 53 (32.92%) PL/SQL
4 33 (20.50%) Python
5 16 (9.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (9.94%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.94%) PowerShell
6 12 (7.45%) VBA
7 11 (6.83%) VB
8 9 (5.59%) Java
9 7 (4.35%) Bicep
9 7 (4.35%) Groovy
10 5 (3.11%) Bash
11 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.86%) X++
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.56%) Degree
3 11 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.59%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) HP APS
7 1 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (26.71%) QA
2 25 (15.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) IFRS
4 1 (0.62%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.62%) MiFID
4 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.48%) Terraform
2 3 (1.86%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.62%) Control-M
4 1 (0.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 66 (40.99%) Microsoft
2 48 (29.81%) Oracle
3 30 (18.63%) Citrix
4 25 (15.53%) Databricks
5 9 (5.59%) VMware
6 4 (2.48%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.86%) SAP
7 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.86%) Sybase
8 2 (1.24%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.24%) Informatica
9 1 (0.62%) Adobe
9 1 (0.62%) Google
9 1 (0.62%) HP
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) Remedy
9 1 (0.62%) Sage
9 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.62%) Splunk