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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 433 344
Rank change year-on-year +40 -89 -49
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 257 104 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.02% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 80 189
10th Percentile £364 £315 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -14.29% +14.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £676 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £393 £433
% change year-on-year +7.29% -9.35% -7.87%
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 13,661 10,154 13,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.89% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,886 6,888 9,262
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £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 554 239 554
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.65 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £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 £77.50 £83.27 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -3.88% +3.20%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +10 236 £453 +0.67% 61
London -9 127 £490 +1.82% 22
UK excluding London -32 106 £421 +7.29% 50
Work from Home -7 69 £550 -7.17% 41
South East -10 51 £405 +15.71% 15
North of England -57 31 £403 +7.40% 23
North West -27 22 £403 +1.96% 13
Yorkshire -49 9 £408 +8.67% 8
South West -26 8 £475 -8.65% 4
Midlands -56 5 £400 -5.88% 2
Scotland -14 4 £475 - 2
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 1
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -15 2 £313 +53.00% 1
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 23 (8.95%) IIS
2 13 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.95%) Appian
4 5 (1.95%) Camunda
5 4 (1.56%) Confluence
6 3 (1.17%) Apache
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.39%) Mule
8 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.95%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.95%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.17%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.85%) Azure
2 77 (29.96%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (12.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (9.73%) AWS
6 23 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.67%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.89%) Serverless
9 9 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
11 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (65.37%) SQL Server
2 65 (25.29%) Power BI
3 63 (24.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (15.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.06%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.61%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.11%) MySQL
11 8 (3.11%) OLAP
11 8 (3.11%) Spark SQL
12 7 (2.72%) Power Query
13 6 (2.33%) DataStage
13 6 (2.33%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.33%) Tableau
14 5 (1.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) Git
2 12 (4.67%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.33%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Mocha
5 6 (2.33%) MSTest
5 6 (2.33%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 73 (28.40%) Finance
2 61 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.18%) Banking
4 34 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Advertising
9 3 (1.17%) Law
9 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (40.08%) Developer
2 43 (16.73%) Data Engineer
3 38 (14.79%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.23%) Consultant
5 33 (12.84%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.89%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.34%) Microsoft Engineer
8 23 (8.95%) Senior
9 22 (8.56%) DBA
10 19 (7.39%) SQL DBA
11 18 (7.00%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.06%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.67%) Lead
14 10 (3.89%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.50%) Analyst
16 8 (3.11%) Database Developer
16 8 (3.11%) Integration Engineer
16 8 (3.11%) Workflow Consultant
17 7 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 7 (2.72%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (28.02%) .NET
2 41 (15.95%) .NET Framework
2 41 (15.95%) XML
3 17 (6.61%) REST
4 16 (6.23%) CSS
4 16 (6.23%) PySpark
5 15 (5.84%) HTML
6 13 (5.06%) WinForms
7 12 (4.67%) JSON
7 12 (4.67%) React
8 11 (4.28%) RESTful
8 11 (4.28%) WPF
9 10 (3.89%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.11%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.11%) SOAP
10 8 (3.11%) SPFx
10 8 (3.11%) XSLT
11 6 (2.33%) Web Services
12 5 (1.95%) jQuery
12 5 (1.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.06%) Replication
3 10 (3.89%) Clustering
3 10 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.11%) NHS
5 6 (2.33%) Wiki
6 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.17%) Equities
8 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.39%) Derivative
10 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.29%) Windows
2 22 (8.56%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.72%) Linux
4 4 (1.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.58%) ETL
2 91 (35.41%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (20.62%) Agile
3 53 (20.62%) Data Modelling
3 53 (20.62%) DevOps
4 52 (20.23%) Performance Tuning
5 49 (19.07%) CI/CD
6 47 (18.29%) Analytics
6 47 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (15.95%) Data Analysis
9 39 (15.18%) Migration
10 35 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (11.67%) AI
12 29 (11.28%) Workflow
13 27 (10.51%) Unit Testing
14 26 (10.12%) Change Management
14 26 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.73%) Data Engineering
16 23 (8.95%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 252 (98.05%) SQL
2 75 (29.18%) C#
3 65 (25.29%) PL/SQL
4 54 (21.01%) Python
5 29 (11.28%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.06%) VBA
9 11 (4.28%) VB
10 8 (3.11%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.33%) Bash
11 6 (2.33%) Bicep
11 6 (2.33%) XPath
12 5 (1.95%) Java
13 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) C
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.00%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.12%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.34%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Terraform
2 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.17%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 101 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 61 (23.74%) Oracle
3 33 (12.84%) Citrix
4 25 (9.73%) Databricks
5 6 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.95%) Intapp
6 5 (1.95%) OpenText
6 5 (1.95%) Sybase
6 5 (1.95%) VMware
7 4 (1.56%) Remedy
8 3 (1.17%) BMC
8 3 (1.17%) RedGate
8 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.17%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.78%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.39%) Telerik
10 1 (0.39%) Teradata