T-SQL Developer Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL Developer
UK

The median Transact-SQL Developer daily rate in the UK is £301, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 551 631
Rank change year-on-year -9 +80 +210
Contract jobs requiring a T-SQL Developer 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.017% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £240 £367 £405
25th Percentile £260 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% -14.89% -14.55%
75th Percentile £347 £405 £556
90th Percentile £371 £497 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £301 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -38.36% +14.71% +21.43%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,103 35,849 47,782
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 93.04% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 22,683 32,884
10th Percentile £280 £300 £303
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.20%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,568 1,847 1,479
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £14.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.41 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.84% +10.00% +86.05%

T-SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured T-SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for T-SQL Developer in the UK

T-SQL Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for T-SQL Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for T-SQL Developer job vacancies in the UK

T-SQL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL Developer over the 6 months to 30 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL Developer in the UK

T-SQL Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for T-SQL Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for T-SQL Developer job vacancies in the UK

T-SQL Developer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing T-SQL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 August 2025. 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
Work from Home +27 2 £301 -24.88% 1
UK excluding London 0 2 £301 -38.36% 3
England +16 1 £375 -6.25% 3
North of England -23 1 £375 -34.78% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 1
Wales - 1 £226 -

T-SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, T-SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring T-SQL Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation

T-SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#