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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 447 309
Rank change year-on-year +7 -138 -19
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 255 106 271
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 0.99% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 86 204
10th Percentile £366 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £608
90th Percentile £696 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 14,186 10,727 12,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.04% 32.76% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,216 7,109 8,253
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 295 341
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £48.32 £37.23 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.25 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +0.97%

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 September 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 September 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 +3 216 £453 +0.67% 142
London -30 121 £464 -2.32% 71
UK excluding London -36 104 £425 - 82
Work from Home -37 71 £514 +12.91% 48
North of England -32 47 £403 -10.50% 17
North West -27 32 £405 -10.00% 12
South East -45 24 £410 +9.30% 21
Yorkshire -22 15 £350 -6.67% 5
Scotland -18 12 £470 +17.50% 3
Midlands -50 9 £413 -2.94% 19
West Midlands -42 8 £413 -2.94% 16
South West -44 6 £588 +12.98% 11
Wales -16 3 £313 +38.27% 1
East of England -22 2 £425 - 10
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 (10.98%) IIS
2 25 (9.80%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.96%) Appian
4 5 (1.96%) Camunda
4 5 (1.96%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 36 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.75%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.96%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.39%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.08%) Azure
2 83 (32.55%) Power Platform
3 36 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.16%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.24%) AWS
7 15 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.71%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.75%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.96%) Serverless
13 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.57%) GCP
13 4 (1.57%) GitHub
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.31%) Internet
1 11 (4.31%) SSL
2 5 (1.96%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.78%) DHCP
3 2 (0.78%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) Firewall
3 2 (0.78%) LAN
3 2 (0.78%) PABX
3 2 (0.78%) VLAN
3 2 (0.78%) VoIP
3 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (74.12%) SQL Server
2 72 (28.24%) Power BI
3 71 (27.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (18.82%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.94%) Oracle Database
6 28 (10.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (7.06%) MySQL
9 12 (4.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (3.92%) MS Access
10 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.92%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.53%) OLAP
11 9 (3.53%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.53%) Tableau
12 8 (3.14%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.75%) Spark SQL
14 6 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (9.41%) Git
2 11 (4.31%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.14%) JIRA
4 8 (3.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.75%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.18%) Mocha
6 3 (1.18%) MSTest
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.39%) GitLab
8 1 (0.39%) Moq
8 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) Toad
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (29.41%) Finance
2 73 (28.63%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (15.69%) Banking
5 14 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Front Office
8 5 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.96%) Law
8 5 (1.96%) Legal
9 4 (1.57%) Advertising
9 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.57%) Retail
10 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Billing
11 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 103 (40.39%) Developer
2 33 (12.94%) Data Engineer
3 32 (12.55%) SQL Developer
4 30 (11.76%) DBA
5 28 (10.98%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.98%) Lead
5 28 (10.98%) SQL DBA
6 27 (10.59%) Senior
7 22 (8.63%) .NET Developer
8 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Engineer
9 13 (5.10%) Applications Support
9 13 (5.10%) Consultant
9 13 (5.10%) Lead Developer
10 12 (4.71%) Analyst
11 11 (4.31%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.92%) SQL Server DBA
13 9 (3.53%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (3.14%) Lead .NET Developer
15 7 (2.75%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (34.51%) .NET
2 34 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 23 (9.02%) ASP.NET
4 22 (8.63%) WinForms
5 21 (8.24%) XML
6 18 (7.06%) HTML
7 14 (5.49%) JSON
7 14 (5.49%) XSLT
8 13 (5.10%) PySpark
9 12 (4.71%) REST
9 12 (4.71%) WPF
10 11 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.31%) React
11 10 (3.92%) CSS
12 9 (3.53%) WCF
12 9 (3.53%) Web Services
13 8 (3.14%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.14%) SOAP
13 8 (3.14%) SPFx
14 6 (2.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.02%) Replication
2 16 (6.27%) Clustering
3 15 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.75%) NHS
7 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.78%) Derivative
9 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.78%) Equities
9 2 (0.78%) Handset
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 70 (27.45%) Windows
2 35 (13.73%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.75%) Linux
4 6 (2.35%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.94%) ETL
2 83 (32.55%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (27.06%) DevOps
4 64 (25.10%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.61%) Agile
6 50 (19.61%) Data Modelling
7 48 (18.82%) CI/CD
8 46 (18.04%) Data Analysis
9 44 (17.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (14.90%) AI
11 33 (12.94%) Analytics
12 32 (12.55%) Migration
13 27 (10.59%) Change Management
13 27 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.59%) Data Integration
13 27 (10.59%) Workflow
14 26 (10.20%) Lakehouse
15 25 (9.80%) Root Cause Analysis
16 24 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (98.43%) SQL
2 90 (35.29%) C#
3 69 (27.06%) PL/SQL
4 48 (18.82%) Python
5 31 (12.16%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.37%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.24%) VBA
8 15 (5.88%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.71%) VB
10 12 (4.71%) XPath
11 8 (3.14%) VBScript
12 6 (2.35%) Java
13 3 (1.18%) Bash
13 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.39%) R
14 1 (0.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 40 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.37%) Degree
4 15 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.31%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.96%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISA
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.25%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.59%) QA
3 7 (2.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.71%) SCOM
2 3 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 111 (43.53%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.02%) Oracle
3 27 (10.59%) Citrix
4 19 (7.45%) Databricks
5 16 (6.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.35%) Intapp
6 6 (2.35%) RedGate
6 6 (2.35%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.35%) Sybase
7 5 (1.96%) OpenText
8 4 (1.57%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.18%) BMC
9 3 (1.18%) Remedy
9 3 (1.18%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.18%) Teradata
10 2 (0.78%) Google
10 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.39%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.39%) QAD
11 1 (0.39%) Tradeweb