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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 421 286
Rank change year-on-year -2 -135 -14
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 216 96 259
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.35% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 1.05% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 80 196
10th Percentile £367 £358 £363
25th Percentile £404 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £456 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -15.12% +7.50%
75th Percentile £578 £555 £614
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £453 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 12,008 9,125 10,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.93% 32.83% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,763 6,191 7,318
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 264 302
10th Percentile £28.50 £31.25 £30.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £50.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -20 122 £453 -4.63% 28
North of England -36 46 £403 -10.50% 9
North West -32 31 £405 -10.00% 7
South East -42 24 £410 +9.30% 16
Yorkshire -32 15 £350 -6.67% 2
Midlands -54 9 £413 -2.94% 15
West Midlands -39 8 £413 -2.94% 13
South West -40 6 £588 +12.98% 8
East of England -27 2 £425 - 7
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 20 (9.26%) IIS
2 19 (8.80%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.17%) Confluence
4 5 (2.31%) Appian
4 5 (2.31%) Camunda
4 5 (2.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) MTS
6 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (14.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.24%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (3.24%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.85%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.80%) Azure
2 72 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 31 (14.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (10.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (8.33%) AWS
7 14 (6.48%) Power Automate
8 13 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (5.56%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.78%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.31%) Serverless
13 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.85%) GitHub
14 3 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.09%) Internet
1 11 (5.09%) SSL
2 4 (1.85%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.93%) DHCP
3 2 (0.93%) DNS
3 2 (0.93%) Firewall
3 2 (0.93%) LAN
3 2 (0.93%) PABX
3 2 (0.93%) VLAN
3 2 (0.93%) VoIP
3 2 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (74.07%) SQL Server
2 64 (29.63%) Power BI
3 58 (26.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 42 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (14.35%) Oracle Database
6 26 (12.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (7.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (7.87%) MySQL
8 12 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (4.63%) Star Schema
10 9 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.70%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.70%) OLAP
11 8 (3.70%) Tableau
12 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.78%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 5 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (7.87%) Git
2 8 (3.70%) JIRA
2 8 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.31%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.39%) Mocha
5 3 (1.39%) MSTest
6 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.46%) Moq
7 1 (0.46%) Toad
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 66 (30.56%) Finance
3 47 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (18.52%) Banking
5 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.78%) Front Office
8 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Advertising
9 4 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.85%) Legal
9 4 (1.85%) Retail
10 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.39%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (39.35%) Developer
2 26 (12.04%) C# Developer
3 25 (11.57%) Data Engineer
3 25 (11.57%) DBA
3 25 (11.57%) Senior
4 24 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 23 (10.65%) SQL DBA
6 20 (9.26%) Lead
7 16 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 16 (7.41%) Microsoft Engineer
8 14 (6.48%) Applications Support
9 13 (6.02%) Consultant
10 10 (4.63%) Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.24%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.24%) Lead Developer
11 7 (3.24%) SC Cleared DBA
11 7 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (2.78%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (2.78%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (36.11%) .NET
2 33 (15.28%) .NET Framework
3 15 (6.94%) WinForms
4 14 (6.48%) ASP.NET
5 12 (5.56%) PySpark
5 12 (5.56%) WPF
6 11 (5.09%) HTML
6 11 (5.09%) React
6 11 (5.09%) REST
6 11 (5.09%) XML
7 10 (4.63%) CSS
8 8 (3.70%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.70%) SPFx
8 8 (3.70%) Web Services
9 7 (3.24%) JSON
9 7 (3.24%) SOAP
9 7 (3.24%) XSLT
10 6 (2.78%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.78%) jQuery
10 6 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.87%) Replication
2 15 (6.94%) Clustering
3 12 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.85%) NHS
7 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.93%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Derivative
8 2 (0.93%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.93%) Equities
8 2 (0.93%) Handset
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.46%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 60 (27.78%) Windows
2 33 (15.28%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.78%) Unix
4 5 (2.31%) Linux
5 2 (0.93%) HPUX
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (34.72%) Business Intelligence
1 75 (34.72%) ETL
2 58 (26.85%) DevOps
3 51 (23.61%) Performance Tuning
4 50 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (21.76%) Agile
6 45 (20.83%) Data Analysis
6 45 (20.83%) Data Modelling
7 43 (19.91%) CI/CD
8 42 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 38 (17.59%) AI
10 26 (12.04%) Analytics
10 26 (12.04%) Change Management
10 26 (12.04%) Migration
11 25 (11.57%) Lakehouse
12 24 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.65%) Workflow
14 22 (10.19%) Data Integration
14 22 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.72%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 212 (98.15%) SQL
2 79 (36.57%) C#
3 60 (27.78%) PL/SQL
4 37 (17.13%) Python
5 28 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 26 (12.04%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.48%) VBA
8 13 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (5.09%) VB
10 5 (2.31%) VB.NET
10 5 (2.31%) XPath
11 4 (1.85%) Java
12 3 (1.39%) Bash
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.46%) Bicep
14 1 (0.46%) Tcl
14 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.50%) Degree
1 27 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.09%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) CISA
7 1 (0.46%) CISSP
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.28%) Data Quality
2 24 (11.11%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (5.09%) Active Directory
1 11 (5.09%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.56%) SCOM
2 2 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.46%) Ansible
3 1 (0.46%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 93 (43.06%) Microsoft
2 61 (28.24%) Oracle
3 27 (12.50%) Citrix
4 18 (8.33%) Databricks
5 15 (6.94%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.78%) Sybase
7 5 (2.31%) OpenText
8 4 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.85%) Intapp
9 3 (1.39%) BMC
9 3 (1.39%) Remedy
9 3 (1.39%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.93%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.46%) Foundry
11 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.46%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.46%) QAD
11 1 (0.46%) RedGate
11 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.46%) Tradeweb