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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 429 352
Rank change year-on-year +27 -77 -55
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 261 102 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 0.99% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 79 190
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% +14.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £678 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £393 £433
% change year-on-year +7.29% -9.35% -7.13%
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 13,723 10,253 13,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.97% 33.90% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,926 6,935 9,287
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 £626 £650
90th Percentile £720 £751 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 242 547
10th Percentile £34.91 £25.81 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £82.66 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +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 26 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 26 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 +10 238 £453 -0.71% 62
London -2 127 £492 +2.23% 22
UK excluding London -39 108 £421 +7.29% 51
Work from Home -18 69 £550 -7.17% 39
South East -8 51 £405 +15.71% 16
North of England -47 33 £403 +7.40% 21
North West -29 22 £403 +1.96% 12
Yorkshire -42 11 £400 +6.67% 8
South West -27 8 £475 -8.65% 4
Midlands -67 5 £400 -5.88% 4
Scotland -10 4 £475 - 3
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00%
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 24 (9.20%) IIS
2 15 (5.75%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.30%) Confluence
3 6 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.92%) Appian
4 5 (1.92%) Camunda
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Mule
7 1 (0.38%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 47 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.92%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.92%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.15%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (33.72%) Azure
2 78 (29.89%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 26 (9.96%) AWS
6 25 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.60%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.83%) Serverless
9 9 (3.45%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.30%) GitHub
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.83%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (65.52%) SQL Server
2 66 (25.29%) Power BI
3 63 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (19.16%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (11.88%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (8.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.51%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.07%) MySQL
11 8 (3.07%) OLAP
12 7 (2.68%) Power Query
12 7 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.68%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.30%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.30%) Tableau
14 5 (1.92%) DataStage
14 5 (1.92%) MS Access
14 5 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.28%) Git
2 12 (4.60%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.30%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.30%) JIRA
5 6 (2.30%) Mocha
5 6 (2.30%) MSTest
5 6 (2.30%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.38%) ERwin
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Moq
7 1 (0.38%) MSI
7 1 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 73 (27.97%) Finance
2 64 (24.52%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.33%) Banking
4 35 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.92%) Legal
7 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.77%) Billing
10 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (40.61%) Developer
2 42 (16.09%) Data Engineer
3 39 (14.94%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.03%) Consultant
5 33 (12.64%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.73%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.20%) Microsoft Engineer
7 24 (9.20%) Senior
8 22 (8.43%) DBA
9 19 (7.28%) .NET Developer
9 19 (7.28%) SQL DBA
10 13 (4.98%) Lead
10 13 (4.98%) Payroll Consultant
11 10 (3.83%) Analyst
11 10 (3.83%) SQL Server DBA
12 9 (3.45%) Database Developer
13 8 (3.07%) Workflow Consultant
14 7 (2.68%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.68%) C# .NET Developer
14 7 (2.68%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (29.50%) .NET
2 42 (16.09%) XML
3 41 (15.71%) .NET Framework
4 17 (6.51%) PySpark
4 17 (6.51%) REST
5 16 (6.13%) CSS
5 16 (6.13%) HTML
6 14 (5.36%) WinForms
7 13 (4.98%) ASP.NET
7 13 (4.98%) JSON
8 12 (4.60%) React
9 11 (4.21%) RESTful
9 11 (4.21%) WPF
10 9 (3.45%) XSLT
11 8 (3.07%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.07%) SOAP
11 8 (3.07%) SPFx
12 7 (2.68%) Web Services
13 5 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (1.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (4.98%) Replication
3 11 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.83%) Clustering
5 8 (3.07%) NHS
6 6 (2.30%) Wiki
7 5 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.53%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.15%) Equities
9 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.77%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.38%) Derivative
11 1 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.38%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.39%) Windows
2 22 (8.43%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.68%) Linux
4 4 (1.53%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.40%) ETL
2 91 (34.87%) Business Intelligence
3 55 (21.07%) DevOps
4 54 (20.69%) Agile
5 53 (20.31%) Data Modelling
5 53 (20.31%) Performance Tuning
6 50 (19.16%) CI/CD
7 47 (18.01%) Analytics
7 47 (18.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 46 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (15.71%) Data Analysis
10 40 (15.33%) Migration
11 35 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (11.88%) Workflow
13 30 (11.49%) AI
14 27 (10.34%) Unit Testing
15 26 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (9.58%) Change Management
16 25 (9.58%) Data Engineering
17 22 (8.43%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 256 (98.08%) SQL
2 80 (30.65%) C#
3 66 (25.29%) PL/SQL
4 54 (20.69%) Python
5 28 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 26 (9.96%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.36%) VBA
9 11 (4.21%) VB
10 10 (3.83%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.68%) XPath
12 6 (2.30%) Bash
12 6 (2.30%) Bicep
13 5 (1.92%) Java
14 3 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.15%) VBScript
15 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
15 1 (0.38%) R
15 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.90%) Degree
4 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.86%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.09%) QA
3 6 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.30%) Terraform
2 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 104 (39.85%) Microsoft
2 62 (23.75%) Oracle
3 33 (12.64%) Citrix
4 24 (9.20%) Databricks
5 5 (1.92%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.92%) Intapp
5 5 (1.92%) OpenText
5 5 (1.92%) Sybase
5 5 (1.92%) VMware
6 4 (1.53%) Remedy
7 3 (1.15%) BMC
7 3 (1.15%) RedGate
7 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.15%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.15%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.77%) Google
8 2 (0.77%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.38%) Telerik
9 1 (0.38%) Teradata