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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 434 332
Rank change year-on-year +42 -102 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 282 117 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 1.08% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 93 198
10th Percentile £354 £322 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £685 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
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 14,107 10,835 12,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.52% 32.93% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,171 7,300 8,622
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +4.21% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 257 409
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.98 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.25 £46.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.05 £81.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +3 247 £453 -9.40% 79
UK excluding London -9 130 £425 - 56
London -4 124 £483 -3.50% 31
Work from Home -7 84 £518 -5.82% 53
South East -19 50 £411 +17.46% 15
North of England -25 47 £401 -11.00% 16
North West -28 33 £401 -11.00% 9
Yorkshire -34 14 £400 - 4
Scotland -6 10 £465 +16.25% 5
Midlands -55 10 £400 -5.88% 12
West Midlands -52 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -40 8 £425 -18.27% 4
Wales -11 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England -15 1 - - 3
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 31 (10.99%) IIS
2 22 (7.80%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.48%) Confluence
4 6 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.77%) Appian
5 5 (1.77%) Camunda
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.35%) Mule
8 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (19.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.48%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.48%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.77%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.35%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.35%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 99 (35.11%) Azure
2 83 (29.43%) Power Platform
3 42 (14.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (9.57%) AWS
7 14 (4.96%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.90%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (3.19%) Serverless
11 7 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.48%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.77%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.42%) GCP
14 4 (1.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.90%) Internet
2 7 (2.48%) SSL
3 4 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) LAN
4 2 (0.71%) PABX
4 2 (0.71%) VLAN
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (69.50%) SQL Server
2 76 (26.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 70 (24.82%) Power BI
4 55 (19.50%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (13.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (12.77%) Oracle Database
7 25 (8.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (8.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (5.32%) MySQL
10 14 (4.96%) Data Lake
11 12 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.90%) MS Access
13 9 (3.19%) OLAP
14 8 (2.84%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.48%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.48%) Tableau
16 6 (2.13%) Metadata
16 6 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.13%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (8.87%) Git
2 12 (4.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.48%) tSQLt
5 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.77%) JIRA
5 5 (1.77%) Mocha
5 5 (1.77%) MSTest
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Moq
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) Toad
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 73 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 72 (25.53%) Finance
3 44 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.83%) Banking
5 17 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.13%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Advertising
8 4 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (37.94%) Developer
2 40 (14.18%) Data Engineer
3 38 (13.48%) Consultant
4 36 (12.77%) SQL Developer
5 33 (11.70%) C# Developer
6 31 (10.99%) DBA
7 28 (9.93%) Implementation Consultant
7 28 (9.93%) SQL DBA
8 27 (9.57%) Senior
9 24 (8.51%) .NET Developer
10 23 (8.16%) Lead
11 20 (7.09%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.61%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.26%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.90%) Analyst
14 11 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.90%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.55%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.84%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (30.85%) .NET
2 49 (17.38%) XML
3 39 (13.83%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.80%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.80%) WinForms
5 21 (7.45%) HTML
6 18 (6.38%) JSON
7 15 (5.32%) REST
8 14 (4.96%) CSS
8 14 (4.96%) XSLT
9 12 (4.26%) PySpark
9 12 (4.26%) React
9 12 (4.26%) WPF
10 11 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (3.19%) RESTful
11 9 (3.19%) WCF
12 8 (2.84%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.84%) SOAP
12 8 (2.84%) SPFx
13 7 (2.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.16%) Replication
2 16 (5.67%) Clustering
2 16 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.48%) NHS
5 6 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.13%) Wiki
6 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.71%) Derivative
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Equities
8 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.71%) Handset
8 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.34%) Windows
2 30 (10.64%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.84%) Linux
4 4 (1.42%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.33%) ETL
2 90 (31.91%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (24.82%) DevOps
4 63 (22.34%) Performance Tuning
5 55 (19.50%) Agile
6 54 (19.15%) Data Modelling
7 53 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (17.38%) CI/CD
9 46 (16.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.25%) Data Analysis
11 41 (14.54%) Migration
12 38 (13.48%) Analytics
13 35 (12.41%) Workflow
14 33 (11.70%) AI
15 31 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (9.93%) Data Engineering
17 27 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (8.51%) Data Integration
19 23 (8.16%) Change Management
19 23 (8.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 278 (98.58%) SQL
2 92 (32.62%) C#
3 72 (25.53%) PL/SQL
4 48 (17.02%) Python
5 32 (11.35%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.64%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.45%) VBA
8 19 (6.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.67%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.26%) VB
10 12 (4.26%) XPath
11 8 (2.84%) VBScript
12 6 (2.13%) Bicep
12 6 (2.13%) Java
13 5 (1.77%) Bash
14 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.35%) Groovy
15 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.51%) Degree
4 11 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.84%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CISA
7 1 (0.35%) CISSP
7 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 38 (13.48%) QA
3 6 (2.13%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS
5 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (3.90%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.48%) SCOM
2 5 (1.77%) Terraform
3 3 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (41.49%) Microsoft
2 70 (24.82%) Oracle
3 31 (10.99%) Citrix
4 20 (7.09%) Databricks
5 12 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.13%) Intapp
7 5 (1.77%) OpenText
7 5 (1.77%) RedGate
7 5 (1.77%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.42%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.42%) Remedy
8 4 (1.42%) Sybase
9 3 (1.06%) BMC
9 3 (1.06%) Google
9 3 (1.06%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.71%) VMware
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.35%) Telerik
11 1 (0.35%) Teradata