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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 371 320
Rank change year-on-year -7 -51 -53
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 212 98 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.40% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.20% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 72 167
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £575
90th Percentile £668 £721 £650
UK median daily rate £451 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -9.75% -3.85% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -22.63% +319.87% -78.19%

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 10,885 8,189 10,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.47% 33.72% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 5,683 7,905
10th Percentile £355 £361 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 210 447
10th Percentile £41.25 £27.40 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% +2.85%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -3 115 £448 -10.50% 23
South East -23 48 £405 -7.43% 15
North of England -50 26 £500 +33.33% 25
North West -28 18 £506 +23.48% 10
Yorkshire -55 8 £408 +8.67% 13
South West -31 7 £475 -9.52% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
Midlands -71 3 £398 -6.47% 6
West Midlands -55 2 £398 -6.47% 3
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 22 (10.38%) IIS
2 10 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.89%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.94%) Apache
5 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Appian
6 1 (0.47%) Camunda
6 1 (0.47%) Mule
6 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 44 (20.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.42%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.26%) Azure
2 59 (27.83%) Power Platform
3 43 (20.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (17.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.08%) AWS
7 13 (6.13%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.25%) Serverless
10 8 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.77%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.30%) GitHub
12 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.89%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.42%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.66%) Internet
2 2 (0.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (66.98%) SQL Server
2 48 (22.64%) Power BI
2 48 (22.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 39 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (14.15%) Oracle Database
5 27 (12.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (12.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (9.91%) Data Lake
8 14 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (3.77%) Metadata
10 8 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.77%) Spark SQL
11 7 (3.30%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.83%) DataStage
12 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (2.83%) MySQL
12 6 (2.83%) Power Query
13 5 (2.36%) OLAP
14 4 (1.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Git
1 13 (6.13%) Visual Studio
2 7 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (3.30%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (2.83%) JIRA
4 5 (2.36%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.36%) Mocha
4 5 (2.36%) MSTest
4 5 (2.36%) tSQLt
5 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.94%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 60 (28.30%) Finance
2 54 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.04%) Banking
4 32 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 4 (1.89%) Advertising
8 4 (1.89%) Law
9 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (36.79%) Developer
2 35 (16.51%) C# Developer
2 35 (16.51%) Consultant
3 34 (16.04%) Data Engineer
4 29 (13.68%) Implementation Consultant
5 22 (10.38%) SQL Developer
6 19 (8.96%) Microsoft Engineer
7 17 (8.02%) Senior
8 16 (7.55%) .NET Developer
9 15 (7.08%) DBA
10 13 (6.13%) Payroll Consultant
10 13 (6.13%) SQL DBA
11 9 (4.25%) Architect
11 9 (4.25%) Database Developer
12 8 (3.77%) Applications Developer
12 8 (3.77%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.77%) C# Application Developer
12 8 (3.77%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (3.77%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.36%) .NET
2 40 (18.87%) .NET Framework
3 32 (15.09%) XML
4 15 (7.08%) CSS
4 15 (7.08%) PySpark
4 15 (7.08%) WinForms
5 13 (6.13%) HTML
5 13 (6.13%) WPF
6 12 (5.66%) React
7 11 (5.19%) JSON
8 10 (4.72%) REST
8 10 (4.72%) RESTful
9 8 (3.77%) SPFx
10 6 (2.83%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.83%) YAML
11 5 (2.36%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.36%) Entity Framework
11 5 (2.36%) Kafka
11 5 (2.36%) Middleware
12 4 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.13%) Replication
2 12 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.30%) Clustering
4 6 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.83%) NHS
4 6 (2.83%) Wiki
5 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.94%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.94%) Equities
7 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.47%) Derivative
8 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.47%) Life Science
8 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.23%) Windows
2 24 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.36%) Linux
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) HPUX
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (39.62%) Business Intelligence
2 71 (33.49%) ETL
3 47 (22.17%) Analytics
3 47 (22.17%) Data Modelling
4 44 (20.75%) Agile
4 44 (20.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (19.34%) DevOps
6 40 (18.87%) Data Analysis
7 38 (17.92%) CI/CD
8 35 (16.51%) Performance Tuning
9 34 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.57%) Migration
11 30 (14.15%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (12.74%) Unit Testing
13 24 (11.32%) AI
13 24 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.85%) Change Management
14 23 (10.85%) Data Engineering
15 22 (10.38%) Dimensional Modelling
16 19 (8.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 206 (97.17%) SQL
2 64 (30.19%) C#
2 64 (30.19%) PL/SQL
3 45 (21.23%) Python
4 24 (11.32%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.91%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.13%) VBA
8 12 (5.66%) VB
9 6 (2.83%) Bash
9 6 (2.83%) Bicep
10 4 (1.89%) Java
11 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (9.91%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.55%) Degree
3 14 (6.60%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.36%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) HP APS
8 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.70%) QA
2 41 (19.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS
5 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Docker
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (1.89%) Terraform
2 3 (1.42%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 84 (39.62%) Microsoft
2 57 (26.89%) Oracle
3 34 (16.04%) Citrix
4 30 (14.15%) Databricks
5 7 (3.30%) VMware
6 6 (2.83%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.89%) Remedy
7 4 (1.89%) Sybase
8 3 (1.42%) BMC
9 2 (0.94%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.94%) Informatica
9 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.94%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.47%) Foundry
10 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.47%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.47%) Palantir
10 1 (0.47%) Splunk
10 1 (0.47%) Telerik