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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 324 309
Rank change year-on-year -106 -15 -60
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 105 170 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.63% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.10% 1.93% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 112 164
10th Percentile £350 £350 £385
25th Percentile £402 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £506 £478
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +6.02% +0.53%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £591
90th Percentile £653 £636 £696
UK median daily rate £428 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -14.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £9.19
25th Percentile - £45.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
% change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%

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 9,558 8,792 10,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.71% 32.63% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,355 5,659 7,933
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 399
10th Percentile £39.57 £25.26 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.59 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -1.59%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 68 £415 -20.95% 55
North of England -45 14 £450 +23.12% 20
North West -24 10 £450 +33.14% 15
South West -12 5 £550 +15.79% 17
South East -34 5 £475 -9.52% 40
Yorkshire -49 4 £375 - 4
Midlands -52 4 £550 +22.22% 14
East Midlands -24 3 £550 +54.49% 9
West Midlands -38 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - - 12
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 15 (14.29%) IIS
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 51 (48.57%) Azure
2 31 (29.52%) Power Platform
3 28 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (22.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.57%) Serverless
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.67%) SaaS
8 6 (5.71%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.71%) AWS
8 6 (5.71%) Boomi
8 6 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.71%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.76%) GitHub
9 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.81%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) Internet
2 3 (2.86%) DHCP
2 3 (2.86%) DNS
2 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) LAN
3 1 (0.95%) VPN
3 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 28 (26.67%) Power BI
3 22 (20.95%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (19.05%) Oracle Database
6 13 (12.38%) Data Lake
7 12 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (7.62%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (6.67%) Power Query
9 7 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (5.71%) Metadata
10 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
10 6 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (4.76%) DataStage
11 5 (4.76%) Delta Lake
11 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.76%) Spark SQL
11 5 (4.76%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.86%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 12 (11.43%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.57%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) JIRA
5 1 (0.95%) Moq
5 1 (0.95%) NUnit
5 1 (0.95%) Poetry
5 1 (0.95%) Pylint
5 1 (0.95%) Selenium
5 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 33 (31.43%) Finance
2 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.24%) Banking
4 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Back Office
9 1 (0.95%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (62.86%) Developer
2 28 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) .NET Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Integration Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Architect
7 8 (7.62%) Data Architect
7 8 (7.62%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.67%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (6.67%) C# WPF Developer
8 7 (6.67%) WCF Developer
8 7 (6.67%) WPF Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.76%) DBA
10 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.81%) Analyst
11 4 (3.81%) Data Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (37.14%) .NET
2 26 (24.76%) .NET Framework
3 14 (13.33%) WPF
4 12 (11.43%) WinForms
5 11 (10.48%) PySpark
6 10 (9.52%) JSON
6 10 (9.52%) WCF
6 10 (9.52%) XML
7 9 (8.57%) REST
7 9 (8.57%) SOAP
8 6 (5.71%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.71%) Kafka
8 6 (5.71%) React
9 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.76%) Middleware
9 5 (4.76%) Web Services
10 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.86%) Express.js
10 3 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.86%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.90%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.95%) Clustering
6 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) IoT
6 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.57%) Windows
2 16 (15.24%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.90%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (39.05%) CI/CD
3 37 (35.24%) DevOps
4 31 (29.52%) Analytics
5 30 (28.57%) Agile
5 30 (28.57%) ETL
5 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (23.81%) Data Modelling
7 22 (20.95%) Data Analysis
8 21 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (16.19%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (16.19%) Migration
10 15 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 15 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (12.38%) Change Management
11 13 (12.38%) Data Architecture
11 13 (12.38%) Data Governance
12 12 (11.43%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (11.43%) Validation
13 11 (10.48%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 96 (91.43%) SQL
2 47 (44.76%) C#
3 36 (34.29%) PL/SQL
4 24 (22.86%) Python
5 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.43%) VBA
6 11 (10.48%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (8.57%) VB
8 6 (5.71%) Groovy
8 6 (5.71%) Java
9 5 (4.76%) Bicep
10 3 (2.86%) X++
11 1 (0.95%) Bash
11 1 (0.95%) Scala
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Degree
2 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) HP APS
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.95%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.86%) QA
2 18 (17.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) MiFID
3 2 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) EMIR
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) HL7
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Terraform
2 2 (1.90%) Control-M
2 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 48 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 36 (34.29%) Oracle
3 24 (22.86%) Databricks
4 21 (20.00%) Citrix
5 6 (5.71%) VMware
6 4 (3.81%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.81%) SAP
7 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.90%) EMC
8 2 (1.90%) Informatica
8 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.95%) CQG
9 1 (0.95%) HP
9 1 (0.95%) iManage
9 1 (0.95%) Okta
9 1 (0.95%) Sage
9 1 (0.95%) Sybase
9 1 (0.95%) Workday