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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 366 350
Rank change year-on-year -53 -16 -63
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 169 152 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.49% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 102 168
10th Percentile £350 £326 £363
25th Percentile £404 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +1.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £585
90th Percentile £668 £675 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -74.99%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £18.76
90th Percentile - - £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
% change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -74.99%

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 12,519 10,212 12,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.71% 33.99% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,352 6,639 9,132
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £488 £496
% change year-on-year -2.00% -1.76% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 237 506
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.25 £30.94
25th Percentile £53.88 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £68.94
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%

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 4 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 4 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 -70 152 £415 -12.63% 91
London -31 90 £415 -20.95% 17
UK excluding London -87 61 £425 -2.86% 83
Work from Home -21 53 £550 +11.39% 42
South East -30 23 £465 -10.36% 24
North of England -62 14 £426 +19.66% 14
North West -34 11 £426 +26.04% 9
South West -21 7 £538 +2.38% 18
Wales -3 5 £555 +239.38% 2
Midlands -71 5 £400 - 18
Scotland +7 3 £700 +105.58% 1
East Midlands -32 3 £550 +54.49% 6
Yorkshire -64 3 - - 3
East of England - 3 £211 - 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
West Midlands -60 2 £398 -11.67% 12

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 20 (11.83%) IIS
2 3 (1.78%) Confluence
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Mule
4 1 (0.59%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (14.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.18%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (44.97%) Azure
2 40 (23.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 40 (23.67%) Power Platform
3 38 (22.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 29 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.69%) AWS
6 11 (6.51%) Serverless
7 9 (5.33%) GitHub
7 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.14%) SaaS
10 6 (3.55%) AtomSphere
10 6 (3.55%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.55%) Boomi
10 6 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.96%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.10%) Internet
2 3 (1.78%) DHCP
2 3 (1.78%) DNS
2 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.18%) HTTP
4 1 (0.59%) LAN
4 1 (0.59%) SMTP
4 1 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (64.50%) SQL Server
2 43 (25.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 42 (24.85%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (20.12%) Power BI
5 27 (15.98%) Oracle Database
6 23 (13.61%) Data Lake
7 19 (11.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 18 (10.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (10.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (6.51%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (4.73%) Metadata
11 6 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (3.55%) Power Query
11 6 (3.55%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.55%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.96%) DataStage
12 5 (2.96%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.96%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.78%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Git
2 14 (8.28%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.78%) JIRA
4 3 (1.78%) Mocha
4 3 (1.78%) MSTest
4 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.78%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.18%) Postman
5 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.59%) Appium
6 1 (0.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.59%) webpack
General
1 49 (28.99%) Finance
2 38 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.20%) Banking
4 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.96%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Law
8 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.59%) Military
9 1 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (49.11%) Developer
2 37 (21.89%) Data Engineer
3 36 (21.30%) C# Developer
4 15 (8.88%) SQL Developer
5 14 (8.28%) Consultant
6 13 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 13 (7.69%) Implementation Consultant
6 13 (7.69%) Senior
7 10 (5.92%) Architect
7 10 (5.92%) DBA
8 9 (5.33%) Azure Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Integration Developer
8 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.73%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.14%) Applications Developer
10 7 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.14%) C# Application Developer
10 7 (4.14%) Database Developer
10 7 (4.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (30.18%) .NET
2 37 (21.89%) .NET Framework
3 23 (13.61%) XML
4 17 (10.06%) PySpark
5 16 (9.47%) WPF
6 14 (8.28%) WinForms
7 13 (7.69%) JSON
8 12 (7.10%) REST
9 10 (5.92%) SOAP
10 8 (4.73%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.14%) React
11 7 (4.14%) WCF
11 7 (4.14%) YAML
12 6 (3.55%) CSS
13 5 (2.96%) .NET Core
13 5 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (2.96%) HTML
13 5 (2.96%) Middleware
14 4 (2.37%) ADO
14 4 (2.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Replication
2 8 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.55%) Wiki
5 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.96%) NHS
6 4 (2.37%) Clustering
6 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.78%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.78%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.59%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.59%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.59%) Equities
9 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (24.85%) Windows
2 22 (13.02%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.59%) VMS
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.60%) Business Intelligence
2 59 (34.91%) ETL
3 51 (30.18%) CI/CD
4 49 (28.99%) DevOps
5 48 (28.40%) Agile
6 45 (26.63%) Analytics
7 40 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (23.08%) Data Modelling
9 32 (18.93%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (18.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 31 (18.34%) Migration
11 30 (17.75%) Data Analysis
12 25 (14.79%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (14.20%) Unit Testing
14 22 (13.02%) Data Engineering
15 19 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (11.24%) Data Governance
16 18 (10.65%) Dimensional Modelling
17 17 (10.06%) Change Management
18 16 (9.47%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 157 (92.90%) SQL
2 60 (35.50%) C#
3 54 (31.95%) PL/SQL
4 42 (24.85%) Python
5 17 (10.06%) PowerShell
6 16 (9.47%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (6.51%) VB
8 11 (6.51%) VBA
9 10 (5.92%) Java
10 7 (4.14%) Bicep
10 7 (4.14%) Groovy
11 5 (2.96%) Bash
12 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.78%) X++
14 1 (0.59%) C
14 1 (0.59%) C++
14 1 (0.59%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.59%) Scala
14 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.06%) Degree
3 13 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.59%) HP APS
7 1 (0.59%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.44%) QA
2 25 (14.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.59%) IFRS
4 1 (0.59%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) MiFID
4 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.78%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Terraform
2 3 (1.78%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.59%) Control-M
3 1 (0.59%) Grafana
3 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (43.20%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.59%) Oracle
3 30 (17.75%) Citrix
4 29 (17.16%) Databricks
5 9 (5.33%) VMware
6 4 (2.37%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.78%) Google
7 3 (1.78%) SAP
7 3 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.18%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.18%) Informatica
8 2 (1.18%) Sybase
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) HP
9 1 (0.59%) Remedy
9 1 (0.59%) Sage
9 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) Teradata