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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 429 337
Rank change year-on-year +34 -92 -44
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 270 107 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.02% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 84 195
10th Percentile £354 £354 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +5.28% -8.10% -8.37%
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 13,842 10,442 13,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.72% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,981 7,047 9,322
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £753 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.37% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 253 538
10th Percentile £34.08 £26.46 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.75 £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 £77.70 £79.74 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% +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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +20 246 £453 -9.40% 80
London -9 129 £491 -1.80% 26
UK excluding London -36 115 £421 +5.28% 66
Work from Home -15 72 £529 -11.83% 48
South East -8 51 £405 +15.71% 23
North of England -47 40 £405 +8.00% 26
North West -31 27 £403 +1.96% 17
Yorkshire -36 13 £450 +20.00% 8
South West -27 8 £425 -18.27% 6
Midlands -53 5 £400 -5.88% 4
Scotland -9 4 £475 +18.75% 2
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 (8.89%) IIS
2 15 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.96%) Confluence
4 6 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.85%) Appian
5 5 (1.85%) Camunda
6 3 (1.11%) Apache
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 48 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.22%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.85%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.11%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.44%) Azure
2 82 (30.37%) Power Platform
3 39 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (10.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.00%) AWS
7 12 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.70%) Serverless
9 9 (3.33%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.59%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.22%) GitHub
12 5 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.70%) Internet
2 5 (1.85%) SSL
3 4 (1.48%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (67.04%) SQL Server
2 70 (25.93%) Power BI
3 69 (25.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (11.85%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.30%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.81%) MySQL
10 13 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.96%) OLAP
12 7 (2.59%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.59%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.22%) Tableau
14 5 (1.85%) DataStage
14 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.85%) MS Access
14 5 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.04%) Git
2 11 (4.07%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.96%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.59%) JIRA
6 6 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.22%) Mocha
6 6 (2.22%) MSTest
6 6 (2.22%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
8 1 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 74 (27.41%) Finance
2 67 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.93%) Banking
4 38 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.85%) Legal
7 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Advertising
9 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Law
9 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (39.63%) Developer
2 40 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 39 (14.44%) SQL Developer
4 34 (12.59%) Consultant
5 33 (12.22%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.37%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (10.00%) DBA
8 24 (8.89%) Senior
8 24 (8.89%) SQL DBA
9 23 (8.52%) Microsoft Engineer
10 19 (7.04%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.93%) Lead
12 13 (4.81%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.44%) Analyst
14 10 (3.70%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.33%) Database Developer
16 8 (2.96%) Workflow Consultant
17 7 (2.59%) C# .NET Developer
17 7 (2.59%) Integration Engineer
17 7 (2.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (30.00%) .NET
2 42 (15.56%) XML
3 41 (15.19%) .NET Framework
4 17 (6.30%) REST
5 16 (5.93%) CSS
5 16 (5.93%) HTML
6 15 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 15 (5.56%) PySpark
6 15 (5.56%) WinForms
7 13 (4.81%) JSON
7 13 (4.81%) React
8 11 (4.07%) RESTful
8 11 (4.07%) WPF
9 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.33%) XSLT
10 8 (2.96%) SOAP
10 8 (2.96%) SPFx
11 7 (2.59%) Web Services
12 6 (2.22%) jQuery
13 5 (1.85%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.30%) Replication
2 16 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.19%) Clustering
4 11 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.96%) NHS
6 6 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.22%) Wiki
7 5 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.11%) Equities
9 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.63%) Windows
2 26 (9.63%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.59%) Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.19%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (34.81%) ETL
3 60 (22.22%) DevOps
4 58 (21.48%) Agile
5 57 (21.11%) Performance Tuning
6 52 (19.26%) Data Modelling
7 50 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 50 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (17.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (16.67%) Analytics
10 42 (15.56%) Data Analysis
11 40 (14.81%) Migration
12 33 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.22%) Workflow
13 32 (11.85%) AI
14 28 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.00%) Unit Testing
16 26 (9.63%) Data Engineering
17 25 (9.26%) Change Management
18 23 (8.52%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 265 (98.15%) SQL
2 85 (31.48%) C#
3 68 (25.19%) PL/SQL
4 52 (19.26%) Python
5 31 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.19%) VBA
9 11 (4.07%) VB
10 10 (3.70%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.59%) XPath
12 6 (2.22%) Bash
12 6 (2.22%) Bicep
13 5 (1.85%) Java
14 3 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.11%) VBScript
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.52%) Degree
4 9 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 41 (15.19%) QA
3 6 (2.22%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.22%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) SCOM
3 3 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.11%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 110 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 62 (22.96%) Oracle
3 32 (11.85%) Citrix
4 22 (8.15%) Databricks
5 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.85%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.85%) Intapp
6 5 (1.85%) OpenText
6 5 (1.85%) Sybase
6 5 (1.85%) VMware
7 4 (1.48%) Remedy
8 3 (1.11%) BMC
8 3 (1.11%) RedGate
8 3 (1.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.11%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.74%) Google
9 2 (0.74%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.37%) Telerik
10 1 (0.37%) Teradata