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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 346 309
Rank change year-on-year -120 -37 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 120 172 297
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.66% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 116 183
10th Percentile £363 £341 £365
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £680 £625 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £9.19
25th Percentile - £45.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £16.11
% change year-on-year - +303.48% -53.97%

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 11,428 10,385 13,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.66% 33.20% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,602 6,582 9,246
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £614 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.99% -1.80% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 246 454
10th Percentile £36.08 £21.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.19 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -111 103 £415 -17.00% 237
London -47 66 £415 -20.95% 60
Work from Home -33 40 £475 +3.26% 179
UK excluding London -86 38 £450 - 258
North of England -59 14 £450 +26.40% 47
North West -23 10 £450 +33.14% 29
South East -47 6 £475 -13.64% 70
South West -1 5 £550 +15.79% 38
Wales -3 5 £600 +272.67% 18
Yorkshire -52 4 £375 - 15
Scotland +9 3 £700 +105.58% 27
East Midlands -29 3 £550 +54.49% 22
Midlands -55 3 £550 +22.22% 31
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 4
East of England - 1 - - 33

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 15 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (53.33%) Azure
2 34 (28.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (27.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 22 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.33%) AWS
7 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (7.50%) Serverless
8 8 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.83%) GitHub
9 7 (5.83%) SaaS
10 6 (5.00%) AtomSphere
10 6 (5.00%) Azure Functions
10 6 (5.00%) Boomi
10 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.17%) GCP
12 4 (3.33%) Azure Storage
12 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) DHCP
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (63.33%) SQL Server
2 30 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (24.17%) Power BI
4 23 (19.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (17.50%) Oracle Database
6 19 (15.83%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (9.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (6.67%) Power Query
9 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.83%) Metadata
10 7 (5.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (5.00%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.17%) DataStage
12 5 (4.17%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.17%) Spark SQL
13 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (2.50%) Data Vault
14 3 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (10.83%) Git
2 12 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.67%) JIRA
4 2 (1.67%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.83%) Appium
5 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.83%) Poetry
5 1 (0.83%) Postman
5 1 (0.83%) Pylint
5 1 (0.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 32 (26.67%) Finance
2 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.00%) Banking
4 13 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Law
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (55.83%) Developer
2 29 (24.17%) C# Developer
3 28 (23.33%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.83%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Architect
6 9 (7.50%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.83%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.00%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (5.00%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.00%) WCF Developer
9 6 (5.00%) WPF Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.17%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.17%) DBA
10 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.33%) .NET
2 27 (22.50%) .NET Framework
3 18 (15.00%) PySpark
4 14 (11.67%) WPF
5 12 (10.00%) WinForms
6 9 (7.50%) SOAP
6 9 (7.50%) WCF
7 8 (6.67%) JSON
7 8 (6.67%) REST
8 7 (5.83%) React
8 7 (5.83%) XML
9 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (4.17%) Kafka
10 5 (4.17%) Middleware
11 4 (3.33%) ADO
12 3 (2.50%) Bootstrap
12 3 (2.50%) Express.js
12 3 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.50%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.83%) Clustering
5 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.67%) Windows
2 17 (14.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 50 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (35.00%) DevOps
4 40 (33.33%) ETL
5 39 (32.50%) Analytics
6 36 (30.00%) Agile
7 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (26.67%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.17%) Migration
10 22 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (17.50%) Data Analysis
11 21 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (14.17%) Data Engineering
13 16 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (11.67%) Change Management
14 14 (11.67%) Data Governance
15 13 (10.83%) Data Architecture
15 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
16 12 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (92.50%) SQL
2 47 (39.17%) C#
3 40 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 36 (30.00%) Python
5 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.33%) VBA
8 9 (7.50%) VB
9 7 (5.83%) Java
10 6 (5.00%) Groovy
11 5 (4.17%) Bicep
12 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.50%) X++
13 2 (1.67%) Scala
14 1 (0.83%) Bash
14 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) HP APS
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.67%) QA
2 21 (17.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) MiFID
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 39 (32.50%) Oracle
3 29 (24.17%) Databricks
4 22 (18.33%) Citrix
5 4 (3.33%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.33%) SAP
5 4 (3.33%) VMware
6 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (1.67%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.67%) Informatica
7 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) Okta
8 1 (0.83%) Sage
8 1 (0.83%) Sybase
8 1 (0.83%) Workday