T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 394 341
Rank change year-on-year -29 -53 -56
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 187 139 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.49% 1.39% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 96 166
10th Percentile £352 £323 £363
25th Percentile £404 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £578 £606 £585
90th Percentile £638 £714 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.21%
75th Percentile £27.50 £42.10 £18.76
90th Percentile - £55.84 £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -52.61%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,591 10,012 12,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.10% 34.15% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,359 6,642 9,151
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £480
% change year-on-year -2.06% +1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 244 490
10th Percentile £41.69 £21.48 £30.63
25th Percentile £54.55 £31.64 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.29
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £73.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +3.17% +2.27% -5.23%

T-SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing T-SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

T-SQL job vacancy trend in the UK

T-SQL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing T-SQL over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for T-SQL in the UK

T-SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing T-SQL

T-SQL
Top 16 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 March 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
England -54 172 £425 -10.53% 116
London -23 91 £415 -17.00% 37
UK excluding London -55 78 £438 +16.67% 113
Work from Home -30 54 £550 +19.57% 52
South East -30 36 £481 -6.10% 24
North of England -55 22 £456 +28.16% 19
North West -24 17 £426 +26.04% 11
South West -18 6 £525 - 24
Yorkshire -61 5 £550 +46.67% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 10
Midlands -64 3 £398 +11.66% 19
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +6 2 £465 +36.56% 18
Wales -8 2 £410 +150.71% 3
West Midlands -56 2 £398 -16.32% 10
East Midlands -39 1 - - 9

T-SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (11.23%) IIS
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Mule
4 1 (0.53%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (21.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) InDesign
3 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) SystmOne
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.64%) Azure
2 43 (22.99%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (21.39%) Power Platform
4 36 (19.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 31 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.42%) AWS
7 8 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (4.28%) GitHub
7 8 (4.28%) Serverless
8 7 (3.74%) SaaS
9 6 (3.21%) AtomSphere
9 6 (3.21%) Boomi
9 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.67%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.14%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.42%) Internet
2 2 (1.07%) DHCP
2 2 (1.07%) DNS
2 2 (1.07%) HTTP
2 2 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) SMTP
3 1 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (60.96%) SQL Server
2 44 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 41 (21.93%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (19.25%) Power BI
5 26 (13.90%) Oracle Database
6 21 (11.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 20 (10.70%) Data Lake
8 19 (10.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (9.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (4.28%) Power Query
12 7 (3.74%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.74%) Spark SQL
12 7 (3.74%) Star Schema
13 6 (3.21%) Metadata
13 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (2.14%) DataStage
16 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 3 (1.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.02%) Visual Studio
2 14 (7.49%) Git
3 7 (3.74%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.60%) JIRA
5 3 (1.60%) Mocha
5 3 (1.60%) MSTest
5 3 (1.60%) Postman
5 3 (1.60%) tSQLt
6 2 (1.07%) GitLab
6 2 (1.07%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.53%) Appium
7 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.53%) webpack
General
1 53 (28.34%) Finance
2 39 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.76%) Banking
5 12 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.67%) Legal
8 4 (2.14%) Advertising
8 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Law
10 2 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (44.39%) Developer
2 37 (19.79%) C# Developer
3 32 (17.11%) Data Engineer
4 30 (16.04%) Consultant
5 29 (15.51%) Implementation Consultant
6 18 (9.63%) SQL Developer
7 15 (8.02%) Senior
8 13 (6.95%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.95%) Payroll Consultant
9 10 (5.35%) Architect
9 10 (5.35%) DBA
10 9 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Analyst
11 8 (4.28%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.28%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (4.28%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.28%) Workflow Consultant
12 7 (3.74%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.34%) .NET
2 39 (20.86%) XML
3 38 (20.32%) .NET Framework
4 17 (9.09%) PySpark
5 16 (8.56%) JSON
6 15 (8.02%) WPF
7 14 (7.49%) WinForms
8 13 (6.95%) REST
9 10 (5.35%) SOAP
10 7 (3.74%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.74%) CSS
10 7 (3.74%) React
10 7 (3.74%) YAML
11 6 (3.21%) RESTful
11 6 (3.21%) WCF
12 5 (2.67%) HTML
13 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (1.60%) Entity Framework
14 3 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.35%) Replication
2 8 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.21%) Wiki
4 5 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.14%) Clustering
5 4 (2.14%) NHS
6 3 (1.60%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.53%) Equities
8 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.39%) Windows
2 21 (11.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.14%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (39.04%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (30.48%) ETL
3 51 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.20%) DevOps
5 47 (25.13%) Agile
6 43 (22.99%) Analytics
7 39 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (19.79%) Data Modelling
9 33 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (17.65%) Migration
10 32 (17.11%) Data Analysis
11 31 (16.58%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (15.51%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (13.37%) Unit Testing
14 22 (11.76%) Data Engineering
15 19 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.16%) Dimensional Modelling
16 18 (9.63%) Change Management
16 18 (9.63%) Validation
17 17 (9.09%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 176 (94.12%) SQL
2 61 (32.62%) C#
3 52 (27.81%) PL/SQL
4 42 (22.46%) Python
5 19 (10.16%) PowerShell
6 17 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (8.56%) JavaScript
8 12 (6.42%) VBA
9 11 (5.88%) VB
10 10 (5.35%) Java
11 7 (3.74%) Bicep
11 7 (3.74%) Groovy
12 5 (2.67%) Bash
12 5 (2.67%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.53%) C++
13 1 (0.53%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.53%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.02%) Degree
2 15 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.81%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.14%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.99%) QA
2 29 (15.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) IFRS
3 1 (0.53%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) MiFID
3 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (3.74%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.53%) Control-M
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 73 (39.04%) Microsoft
2 48 (25.67%) Oracle
3 30 (16.04%) Citrix
4 27 (14.44%) Databricks
5 8 (4.28%) VMware
6 3 (1.60%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.60%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.60%) Sybase
7 2 (1.07%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.07%) Google
7 2 (1.07%) Informatica
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe
8 1 (0.53%) HP
8 1 (0.53%) Remedy
8 1 (0.53%) Sage
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.53%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) Teradata