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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 398 307
Rank change year-on-year +11 -91 -46
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 246 106 238
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.38% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 1.17% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 89 189
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +5.79%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £678 £678
UK median daily rate £453 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -4.63% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £25.81 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £27.50 - -
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 12,035 9,049 10,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.45% 32.79% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,808 6,247 7,661
10th Percentile £363 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 227 369
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £31.07
25th Percentile £53.53 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.08 £83.58 £78.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -20 125 £475 -5.00% 23
South East -16 49 £405 +15.71% 14
North of England -37 45 £403 -10.50% 16
North West -31 31 £403 -10.50% 9
Yorkshire -26 14 £400 - 4
Midlands -52 10 £400 -5.88% 12
West Midlands -57 9 £400 -5.88% 12
South West -33 8 £425 -18.27% 7
East of England - 2 - - 2
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 23 (9.35%) IIS
2 16 (6.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.85%) Confluence
4 6 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (2.03%) Appian
5 5 (2.03%) Camunda
6 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.81%) Apache
7 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) Mule
8 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 51 (20.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.85%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.85%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.63%) Elite 3E
2 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.81%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 82 (33.33%) Azure
2 74 (30.08%) Power Platform
3 36 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (11.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (10.16%) AWS
6 24 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.69%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.47%) PowerApps
10 10 (4.07%) Serverless
11 9 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.44%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.63%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.47%) Internet
2 7 (2.85%) SSL
3 3 (1.22%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.81%) DHCP
4 2 (0.81%) DNS
4 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 2 (0.81%) LAN
4 2 (0.81%) PABX
4 2 (0.81%) VLAN
4 2 (0.81%) VoIP
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (68.70%) SQL Server
2 65 (26.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 63 (25.61%) Power BI
4 50 (20.33%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (14.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 34 (13.82%) Oracle Database
7 25 (10.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 19 (7.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.69%) Data Lake
9 14 (5.69%) MySQL
10 12 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.25%) OLAP
12 7 (2.85%) Star Schema
13 6 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.44%) Tableau
14 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.03%) Metadata
14 5 (2.03%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.03%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.63%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 17 (6.91%) Git
2 10 (4.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (2.85%) tSQLt
3 7 (2.85%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.44%) Mocha
4 6 (2.44%) MSTest
5 5 (2.03%) JIRA
6 4 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.41%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.41%) Moq
7 1 (0.41%) MSI
7 1 (0.41%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 72 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.42%) Finance
3 43 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (16.26%) Banking
5 14 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.03%) Legal
9 4 (1.63%) Advertising
10 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.22%) Law
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Billing
11 2 (0.81%) Front Office
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 91 (36.99%) Developer
2 37 (15.04%) Consultant
3 31 (12.60%) C# Developer
3 31 (12.60%) Data Engineer
3 31 (12.60%) SQL Developer
4 28 (11.38%) Implementation Consultant
5 25 (10.16%) DBA
5 25 (10.16%) Senior
6 23 (9.35%) SQL DBA
7 20 (8.13%) Microsoft Engineer
8 18 (7.32%) .NET Developer
9 17 (6.91%) Lead
10 13 (5.28%) Payroll Consultant
11 9 (3.66%) Analyst
12 8 (3.25%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) SQL Server DBA
12 8 (3.25%) Workflow Consultant
13 7 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.85%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (31.30%) .NET
2 39 (15.85%) XML
3 38 (15.45%) .NET Framework
4 15 (6.10%) CSS
4 15 (6.10%) HTML
4 15 (6.10%) REST
4 15 (6.10%) WinForms
5 13 (5.28%) ASP.NET
6 12 (4.88%) React
6 12 (4.88%) WPF
7 11 (4.47%) JSON
7 11 (4.47%) PySpark
8 10 (4.07%) RESTful
9 9 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.25%) SPFx
11 7 (2.85%) SOAP
11 7 (2.85%) XSLT
12 6 (2.44%) jQuery
12 6 (2.44%) Web Services
13 5 (2.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Replication
2 16 (6.50%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (6.10%) Clustering
4 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.44%) Wiki
5 5 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.03%) NHS
6 3 (1.22%) Equities
6 3 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.22%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.81%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.81%) Derivative
7 2 (0.81%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.81%) Handset
8 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.41%) Life Science
8 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.14%) Windows
2 27 (10.98%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.44%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) HPUX
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.55%) ETL
2 83 (33.74%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (23.17%) DevOps
4 55 (22.36%) Agile
5 52 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (20.33%) Data Modelling
6 50 (20.33%) Performance Tuning
7 43 (17.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 42 (17.07%) Data Analysis
9 34 (13.82%) Migration
10 32 (13.01%) AI
10 32 (13.01%) Analytics
10 32 (13.01%) Workflow
11 26 (10.57%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (10.16%) Data Engineering
13 24 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.35%) Unit Testing
15 22 (8.94%) Change Management
16 18 (7.32%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 241 (97.97%) SQL
2 81 (32.93%) C#
3 63 (25.61%) PL/SQL
4 38 (15.45%) Python
5 29 (11.79%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.98%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.69%) VBA
9 11 (4.47%) VB
10 6 (2.44%) Bicep
10 6 (2.44%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.03%) Bash
11 5 (2.03%) Java
11 5 (2.03%) XPath
12 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) C
13 1 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.94%) Degree
3 19 (7.72%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.25%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.03%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.04%) QA
2 34 (13.82%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.44%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.85%) SCOM
2 2 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (0.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.58%) Oracle
3 31 (12.60%) Citrix
4 18 (7.32%) Databricks
5 11 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.03%) OpenText
6 5 (2.03%) Sybase
7 4 (1.63%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.63%) Intapp
7 4 (1.63%) Remedy
8 3 (1.22%) BMC
8 3 (1.22%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.81%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.81%) VMware
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) Google
10 1 (0.41%) Palantir
10 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.41%) Telerik