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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 447 314
Rank change year-on-year +13 -133 -19
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 254 104 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.32% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 0.97% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 86 196
10th Percentile £359 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £614
90th Percentile £708 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +44.44%

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 14,273 10,758 12,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.02% 32.90% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,103 8,116
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £505 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.50% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 290 340
10th Percentile £26.25 £29.00 £26.93
25th Percentile £45.50 £40.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.88 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 23 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 23 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 +4 213 £453 +0.56% 173
London -23 123 £453 -2.05% 69
UK excluding London -43 99 £425 - 117
Work from Home -25 72 £514 +19.48% 79
North of England -43 44 £401 -2.91% 30
North West -25 31 £440 -2.22% 24
South East -43 21 £410 +9.30% 30
Scotland -11 14 £475 -32.14% 10
Yorkshire -34 13 £350 -6.67% 6
Midlands -51 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -36 8 £413 -2.94% 18
South West -35 6 £588 +12.98% 7
Wales -15 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -29 1 £425 - 17
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 29 (11.42%) IIS
2 23 (9.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.33%) Confluence
4 5 (1.97%) Appian
4 5 (1.97%) Camunda
4 5 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) 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 33 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.76%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.76%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.97%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.83%) Azure
2 79 (31.10%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.60%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.66%) AWS
6 19 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (4.72%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.94%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.97%) GCP
12 5 (1.97%) Serverless
13 4 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.57%) GitHub
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.72%) Internet
1 12 (4.72%) SSL
2 5 (1.97%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) LAN
3 2 (0.79%) PABX
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) VoIP
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (75.20%) SQL Server
2 70 (27.56%) Power BI
3 69 (27.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (18.11%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (13.39%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (9.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (7.09%) MySQL
9 12 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.94%) MS Access
10 10 (3.94%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (3.94%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.54%) OLAP
11 9 (3.54%) Tableau
12 7 (2.76%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.36%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.97%) Metadata
15 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 25 (9.84%) Git
2 11 (4.33%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.94%) JIRA
3 10 (3.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.76%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.18%) Mocha
6 3 (1.18%) MSTest
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
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 69 (27.17%) Finance
2 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (15.75%) Banking
5 13 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.76%) Front Office
7 5 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.57%) Law
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.79%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 103 (40.55%) Developer
2 35 (13.78%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.39%) SQL Developer
4 33 (12.99%) DBA
5 30 (11.81%) Senior
5 30 (11.81%) SQL DBA
6 28 (11.02%) Lead
7 27 (10.63%) C# Developer
8 20 (7.87%) .NET Developer
9 17 (6.69%) Applications Support
10 15 (5.91%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (5.12%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.72%) Analyst
12 12 (4.72%) SQL Server DBA
13 11 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Consultant
14 9 (3.54%) Software Developer
15 8 (3.15%) Lead .NET Developer
15 8 (3.15%) SQL Server Developer
16 7 (2.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (35.43%) .NET
2 35 (13.78%) .NET Framework
3 23 (9.06%) WinForms
4 21 (8.27%) ASP.NET
5 17 (6.69%) HTML
5 17 (6.69%) XML
6 14 (5.51%) XSLT
7 13 (5.12%) WPF
8 12 (4.72%) PySpark
9 11 (4.33%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.33%) JSON
9 11 (4.33%) REST
10 9 (3.54%) CSS
10 9 (3.54%) React
10 9 (3.54%) WCF
10 9 (3.54%) Web Services
11 8 (3.15%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.15%) SOAP
12 7 (2.76%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.36%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.06%) Replication
2 16 (6.30%) Clustering
3 14 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.76%) NHS
7 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.18%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.18%) Derivative
8 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.18%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Handset
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 76 (29.92%) Windows
2 39 (15.35%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.76%) Linux
4 6 (2.36%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) 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 82 (32.28%) ETL
2 81 (31.89%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (26.38%) DevOps
4 64 (25.20%) Performance Tuning
5 52 (20.47%) Data Modelling
6 50 (19.69%) CI/CD
6 50 (19.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 50 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (18.90%) Agile
8 44 (17.32%) Data Analysis
9 38 (14.96%) AI
10 31 (12.20%) Analytics
10 31 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (12.20%) Migration
11 25 (9.84%) Data Integration
11 25 (9.84%) Lakehouse
11 25 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (9.84%) Workflow
12 24 (9.45%) Change Management
12 24 (9.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 250 (98.43%) SQL
2 92 (36.22%) C#
3 68 (26.77%) PL/SQL
4 46 (18.11%) Python
5 30 (11.81%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.42%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.66%) VBA
8 15 (5.91%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.12%) VB
10 12 (4.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.72%) XPath
11 8 (3.15%) VBScript
12 6 (2.36%) 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 39 (15.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.42%) Degree
4 14 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.72%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CISA
8 1 (0.39%) CISSP
8 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 28 (11.02%) QA
3 6 (2.36%) 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 13 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.72%) 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
1 107 (42.13%) Microsoft
2 77 (30.31%) Oracle
3 28 (11.02%) Citrix
4 18 (7.09%) Databricks
5 16 (6.30%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.36%) Intapp
6 6 (2.36%) RedGate
6 6 (2.36%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.36%) Sybase
7 5 (1.97%) OpenText
8 4 (1.57%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.18%) BMC
9 3 (1.18%) Google
9 3 (1.18%) Remedy
9 3 (1.18%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.18%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.39%) Northgate
11 1 (0.39%) Telerik