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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 325 311
Rank change year-on-year -117 -14 -64
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 106 175 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.97% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 115 163
10th Percentile £350 £350 £385
25th Percentile £402 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £561 £600 £587
90th Percentile £647 £650 £687
UK median daily rate £415 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -17.00% +4.17% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.14
25th Percentile - £45.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%
75th Percentile - - £24.61
90th Percentile - - £26.19
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 9,691 8,901 10,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.79% 32.58% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,452 5,742 7,934
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £439
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 £774 £774
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 212 390
10th Percentile £39.28 £25.36 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £44.63 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -1.31%

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 5 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 5 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 -30 69 £415 -20.95% 221
North of England -55 14 £450 +23.12% 39
North West -25 10 £450 +33.14% 15
South West -4 5 £550 +15.79% 36
South East -48 5 £475 -9.52% 159
Yorkshire -48 4 £375 - 5
Midlands -49 4 £550 +22.22% 22
East Midlands -26 3 £550 +54.49% 17
West Midlands -48 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - - 31
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 (14.15%) IIS
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 52 (49.06%) Azure
2 32 (30.19%) Power Platform
3 27 (25.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (23.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.49%) Serverless
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Functions
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.60%) SaaS
8 6 (5.66%) AtomSphere
8 6 (5.66%) AWS
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (5.66%) Boomi
8 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.72%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.72%) GitHub
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Storage
10 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.38%) Internet
2 3 (2.83%) DHCP
2 3 (2.83%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) LAN
3 1 (0.94%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (71.70%) SQL Server
2 29 (27.36%) Power BI
3 25 (23.58%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (21.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (18.87%) Oracle Database
6 14 (13.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (13.21%) Data Lake
7 9 (8.49%) Power Query
7 9 (8.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (7.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (5.66%) Metadata
9 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.72%) DataStage
10 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (4.72%) Star Schema
11 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
11 4 (3.77%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.83%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.49%) Git
3 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.83%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) JIRA
5 1 (0.94%) Moq
5 1 (0.94%) NUnit
5 1 (0.94%) Poetry
5 1 (0.94%) Pylint
5 1 (0.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.94%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 34 (32.08%) Finance
2 29 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.72%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Law
8 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Back Office
9 1 (0.94%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.94%) Front Office
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (62.26%) Developer
2 27 (25.47%) C# Developer
3 16 (15.09%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.26%) .NET Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Integration Developer
6 9 (8.49%) SQL Developer
7 8 (7.55%) Architect
8 7 (6.60%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (6.60%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (6.60%) C# WPF Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.60%) WCF Developer
8 7 (6.60%) WPF Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.72%) DBA
10 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Analyst
11 4 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.77%) ETL Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (35.85%) .NET
2 25 (23.58%) .NET Framework
3 14 (13.21%) WPF
4 12 (11.32%) WinForms
5 11 (10.38%) PySpark
6 10 (9.43%) JSON
6 10 (9.43%) WCF
6 10 (9.43%) XML
7 9 (8.49%) REST
7 9 (8.49%) SOAP
8 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
8 6 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (5.66%) Kafka
8 6 (5.66%) React
9 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
9 5 (4.72%) Middleware
9 5 (4.72%) Web Services
10 3 (2.83%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.83%) Express.js
10 3 (2.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.83%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (0.94%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.94%) Clustering
5 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.94%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) IoT
5 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.36%) Windows
2 15 (14.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.51%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (38.68%) CI/CD
3 37 (34.91%) DevOps
4 33 (31.13%) ETL
5 32 (30.19%) Analytics
6 31 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (28.30%) Agile
8 27 (25.47%) Data Modelling
9 24 (22.64%) Data Analysis
10 20 (18.87%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (18.87%) Migration
11 17 (16.04%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (14.15%) Data Engineering
12 15 (14.15%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (13.21%) Data Governance
14 12 (11.32%) Change Management
14 12 (11.32%) Data Architecture
14 12 (11.32%) Translating Business Requirements
14 12 (11.32%) Validation
15 11 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 97 (91.51%) SQL
2 46 (43.40%) C#
3 35 (33.02%) PL/SQL
4 23 (21.70%) Python
5 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.32%) VBA
6 11 (10.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.49%) VB
9 6 (5.66%) Groovy
9 6 (5.66%) Java
10 5 (4.72%) Bicep
11 3 (2.83%) X++
12 1 (0.94%) Bash
12 1 (0.94%) Scala
12 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Degree
2 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) HP APS
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.94%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.70%) QA
2 19 (17.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) MiFID
3 2 (1.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.94%) EMIR
4 1 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) HL7
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.94%) Docker
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Terraform
2 2 (1.89%) Control-M
2 2 (1.89%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.94%) Grafana
3 1 (0.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (33.02%) Oracle
3 23 (21.70%) Databricks
4 20 (18.87%) Citrix
5 6 (5.66%) VMware
6 4 (3.77%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.77%) SAP
7 3 (2.83%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.89%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.89%) EMC
8 2 (1.89%) Informatica
8 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.94%) CQG
9 1 (0.94%) HP
9 1 (0.94%) iManage
9 1 (0.94%) Okta
9 1 (0.94%) Sage
9 1 (0.94%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.94%) Workday