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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 457 323
Rank change year-on-year +1 -134 -20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 251 104 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.31% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 0.96% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 85 180
10th Percentile £354 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -15.29% +11.84%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £725 £665 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +9.76% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +112.73%

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 14,548 10,843 12,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.31% 32.65% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,448 7,116 7,897
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £649
90th Percentile £725 £733 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 297 323
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.50 £41.25 £42.87
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 October 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 15 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 15 October 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 -15 207 £453 +0.67% 49
London -20 122 £453 +0.67% 15
UK excluding London -38 94 £450 +9.76% 37
Work from Home -32 77 £506 +17.73% 22
North of England -45 38 £405 +3.85% 8
North West -31 27 £440 +4.76% 2
South East -48 21 £475 +26.67% 13
Scotland -10 15 £475 -32.14%
Yorkshire -32 11 £400 +6.67% 6
Midlands -45 10 £413 -11.76% 10
West Midlands -35 9 £413 - 8
South West -36 5 £750 +44.23% 2
Wales -16 3 £313 -23.78%
East of England -27 1 £425 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 26 (10.36%) IIS
2 20 (7.97%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.98%) Confluence
4 5 (1.99%) Appian
4 5 (1.99%) Camunda
4 5 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.79%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.99%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.20%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.86%) Azure
2 74 (29.48%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (9.56%) AWS
6 15 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.19%) GitHub
8 8 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.79%) GCP
9 7 (2.79%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.79%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.79%) Serverless
10 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) SSL
2 9 (3.59%) Internet
3 5 (1.99%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.80%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) LAN
4 2 (0.80%) PABX
4 2 (0.80%) VLAN
4 2 (0.80%) VoIP
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (76.10%) SQL Server
2 67 (26.69%) Power BI
2 67 (26.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 43 (17.13%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (12.35%) Oracle Database
5 25 (9.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (9.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (7.17%) MySQL
8 13 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (5.18%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.98%) MS Access
10 9 (3.59%) Star Schema
11 8 (3.19%) Tableau
12 7 (2.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (2.39%) OLAP
14 5 (1.99%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.99%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.99%) OLTP
14 5 (1.99%) Power Query
14 5 (1.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Git
2 11 (4.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.38%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.19%) JIRA
4 8 (3.19%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) Mocha
6 3 (1.20%) MSTest
6 3 (1.20%) Subversion
7 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 69 (27.49%) Finance
2 66 (26.29%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.55%) Banking
5 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.59%) Front Office
7 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Publishing
10 2 (0.80%) Billing
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.80%) Local Government
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 103 (41.04%) Developer
2 34 (13.55%) Data Engineer
2 34 (13.55%) SQL Developer
3 33 (13.15%) DBA
3 33 (13.15%) Senior
4 28 (11.16%) SQL DBA
5 27 (10.76%) Lead
6 26 (10.36%) C# Developer
7 21 (8.37%) .NET Developer
7 21 (8.37%) Applications Support
8 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Lead Developer
10 11 (4.38%) SQL Server DBA
11 10 (3.98%) Analyst
11 10 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.98%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.98%) Software Developer
11 10 (3.98%) SQL Server Developer
12 8 (3.19%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (36.65%) .NET
2 31 (12.35%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.76%) ASP.NET
4 21 (8.37%) XML
5 20 (7.97%) WinForms
6 17 (6.77%) HTML
7 15 (5.98%) JSON
8 14 (5.58%) XSLT
9 12 (4.78%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.78%) REST
9 12 (4.78%) SOAP
9 12 (4.78%) Web Services
10 11 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (3.98%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.98%) PySpark
11 10 (3.98%) React
11 10 (3.98%) WPF
12 9 (3.59%) CSS
12 9 (3.59%) WCF
13 8 (3.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.76%) Replication
2 17 (6.77%) Clustering
3 14 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.78%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.99%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.99%) NHS
7 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.20%) Derivative
8 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.80%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) Equities
9 2 (0.80%) Handset
9 2 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (31.08%) Windows
2 44 (17.53%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.78%) Linux
4 7 (2.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.08%) Business Intelligence
2 75 (29.88%) ETL
3 68 (27.09%) DevOps
4 65 (25.90%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (21.12%) CI/CD
6 52 (20.72%) Disaster Recovery
7 50 (19.92%) Data Modelling
8 49 (19.52%) Agile
8 49 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.94%) Data Analysis
10 36 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.55%) AI
12 31 (12.35%) Migration
13 25 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.16%) Change Management
14 23 (9.16%) Data Integration
14 23 (9.16%) Lakehouse
14 23 (9.16%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (9.16%) Workflow
15 22 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 248 (98.80%) SQL
2 93 (37.05%) C#
3 60 (23.90%) PL/SQL
4 47 (18.73%) Python
5 32 (12.75%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.37%) VBA
8 15 (5.98%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.78%) VB
10 12 (4.78%) XPath
11 8 (3.19%) VBScript
12 7 (2.79%) Java
12 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.39%) Bash
14 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.80%) Scala
16 1 (0.40%) R
16 1 (0.40%) Ruby
16 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.36%) Degree
4 14 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (5.18%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) CISA
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.96%) QA
3 6 (2.39%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.80%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.78%) SCOM
2 3 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 106 (42.23%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.48%) Oracle
3 24 (9.56%) Citrix
4 18 (7.17%) Databricks
5 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.39%) Intapp
6 6 (2.39%) RedGate
6 6 (2.39%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.39%) Sybase
7 5 (1.99%) OpenText
8 4 (1.59%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.20%) BMC
9 3 (1.20%) eFront
9 3 (1.20%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.20%) Teradata
10 2 (0.80%) Informatica
10 2 (0.80%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.80%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Northgate