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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 428 349
Rank change year-on-year +35 -79 -60
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 275 112 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.04% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 89 197
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £695 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +4.31% -7.62% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -82.56%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -87.36%

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 14,171 10,809 13,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.00% 33.46% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,218 7,288 9,392
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 260 532
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.36 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.45 £77.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +14 246 £453 -9.40% 82
London -12 130 £491 -1.80% 26
UK excluding London -29 116 £417 +4.31% 66
Work from Home -9 73 £527 -11.05% 51
South East -5 51 £405 +15.71% 18
North of England -52 40 £405 +8.00% 29
North West -22 27 £403 +1.96% 18
Yorkshire -42 13 £450 +20.00% 9
South West -29 7 £425 -18.27% 5
Scotland -7 5 £475 +18.75% 2
Midlands -64 5 £400 -5.88% 9
West Midlands -63 4 £400 -5.88% 7
East of England - 4 £211 - 4
Wales -14 3 £313 +53.00%
Northern Ireland - 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 28 (10.18%) IIS
2 17 (6.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.91%) Confluence
4 6 (2.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.82%) Appian
5 5 (1.82%) Camunda
6 3 (1.09%) Apache
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 50 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.18%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.82%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.09%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.55%) Azure
2 82 (29.82%) Power Platform
3 37 (13.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.18%) AWS
4 28 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (4.36%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.64%) Serverless
8 9 (3.27%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.55%) GitHub
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.00%) Internet
2 5 (1.82%) SSL
3 4 (1.45%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (67.64%) SQL Server
2 71 (25.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (25.09%) Power BI
4 53 (19.27%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (14.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (12.00%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.45%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.73%) MySQL
10 13 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.27%) OLAP
12 7 (2.55%) MS Access
12 7 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.55%) Tableau
13 6 (2.18%) Metadata
13 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.18%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.18%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (8.00%) Git
2 12 (4.36%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (3.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.55%) JIRA
5 6 (2.18%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.18%) Mocha
5 6 (2.18%) MSTest
5 6 (2.18%) tSQLt
6 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.73%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.36%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) Moq
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 74 (26.91%) Finance
2 68 (24.73%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.64%) Banking
4 40 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.36%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.82%) Legal
7 5 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.45%) Advertising
9 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.09%) Law
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Billing
10 2 (0.73%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (40.00%) Developer
2 40 (14.55%) Data Engineer
2 40 (14.55%) SQL Developer
3 35 (12.73%) C# Developer
3 35 (12.73%) Consultant
4 28 (10.18%) Implementation Consultant
5 27 (9.82%) DBA
6 26 (9.45%) Senior
7 24 (8.73%) SQL DBA
8 22 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 22 (8.00%) Microsoft Engineer
9 18 (6.55%) Lead
10 13 (4.73%) Payroll Consultant
11 12 (4.36%) Analyst
12 10 (3.64%) SQL Server DBA
13 9 (3.27%) C# .NET Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Database Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (30.55%) .NET
2 45 (16.36%) XML
3 42 (15.27%) .NET Framework
4 18 (6.55%) HTML
4 18 (6.55%) WinForms
5 17 (6.18%) ASP.NET
5 17 (6.18%) REST
6 16 (5.82%) CSS
7 15 (5.45%) JSON
8 14 (5.09%) PySpark
9 13 (4.73%) React
10 12 (4.36%) WPF
11 11 (4.00%) RESTful
11 11 (4.00%) XSLT
12 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.91%) SOAP
13 8 (2.91%) SPFx
14 7 (2.55%) ASP.NET Web API
14 7 (2.55%) Web Services
15 6 (2.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.91%) Replication
2 16 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.09%) Clustering
4 11 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.27%) NHS
6 6 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.18%) Wiki
7 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.45%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.09%) Equities
8 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.73%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.73%) Windows
2 27 (9.82%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.91%) Linux
4 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.82%) Business Intelligence
1 93 (33.82%) ETL
2 61 (22.18%) DevOps
3 59 (21.45%) Agile
4 58 (21.09%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.82%) CI/CD
6 49 (17.82%) Data Modelling
7 47 (17.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (15.27%) Analytics
8 42 (15.27%) Data Analysis
8 42 (15.27%) Migration
9 34 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (12.00%) AI
10 33 (12.00%) Workflow
11 30 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.45%) Unit Testing
13 24 (8.73%) Change Management
13 24 (8.73%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.36%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 270 (98.18%) SQL
2 89 (32.36%) C#
3 71 (25.82%) PL/SQL
4 51 (18.55%) Python
5 30 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.55%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (6.18%) VBA
9 12 (4.36%) VB
9 12 (4.36%) VB.NET
10 9 (3.27%) XPath
11 6 (2.18%) Bash
11 6 (2.18%) Bicep
11 6 (2.18%) Java
11 6 (2.18%) VBScript
12 3 (1.09%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.45%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.00%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.27%) Data Quality
1 42 (15.27%) QA
2 6 (2.18%) GDPR
3 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) IFRS
4 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.18%) Terraform
2 5 (1.82%) SCOM
3 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.09%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 111 (40.36%) Microsoft
2 65 (23.64%) Oracle
3 33 (12.00%) Citrix
4 18 (6.55%) Databricks
5 10 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.82%) Intapp
6 5 (1.82%) OpenText
6 5 (1.82%) Sybase
6 5 (1.82%) VMware
7 4 (1.45%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.45%) Remedy
8 3 (1.09%) BMC
8 3 (1.09%) Google
8 3 (1.09%) RedGate
8 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.09%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.73%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.36%) Splunk