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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 410 340
Rank change year-on-year -7 -70 -63
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 209 117 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 1.17% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 83 180
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £601 £585
90th Percentile £632 £715 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -21.43% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £31.50 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -60.34%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £18.76
90th Percentile - £34.43 £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -72.66%

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 12,875 9,994 12,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.50% 34.03% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,529 6,772 9,115
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -0.70% -1.87% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 247 487
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.49 £31.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% +0.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -17 196 £417 -16.56% 71
London -27 108 £415 -19.02% 25
UK excluding London -36 85 £425 +3.03% 60
Work from Home -18 50 £550 +4.76% 49
South East -31 38 £417 -4.64% 22
North of England -47 27 £500 +33.33% 17
North West -23 20 £500 +21.95% 12
South West -22 7 £475 -9.52% 1
Yorkshire -61 7 £408 +8.67% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Midlands -66 3 £398 -6.47% 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Scotland +4 2 £465 - 5
West Midlands -62 2 £398 -6.47% 2
Wales -9 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 24 (11.48%) IIS
2 7 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.91%) Confluence
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Mule
6 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (21.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.44%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.48%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (38.28%) Azure
2 52 (24.88%) Power Platform
3 46 (22.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (20.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.18%) AWS
7 12 (5.74%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.35%) GitHub
8 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.35%) PowerApps
8 7 (3.35%) Serverless
9 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.91%) Azure Storage
9 4 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) Internet
2 2 (0.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) DHCP
3 1 (0.48%) DNS
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SMTP
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (66.99%) SQL Server
2 48 (22.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (21.53%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (20.10%) Power BI
5 30 (14.35%) Oracle Database
6 26 (12.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (11.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (11.00%) Data Lake
9 17 (8.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (6.22%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.31%) Metadata
12 8 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.83%) Power Query
12 8 (3.83%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.83%) Star Schema
13 7 (3.35%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (2.87%) MySQL
15 5 (2.39%) OLAP
16 4 (1.91%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 17 (8.13%) Git
2 15 (7.18%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.87%) JIRA
5 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) Mocha
5 3 (1.44%) MSTest
5 3 (1.44%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.96%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 61 (29.19%) Finance
2 54 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.40%) Banking
5 12 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
8 4 (1.91%) Advertising
8 4 (1.91%) Law
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Billing
11 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (41.15%) Developer
2 40 (19.14%) C# Developer
3 34 (16.27%) Consultant
3 34 (16.27%) Data Engineer
4 29 (13.88%) Implementation Consultant
5 21 (10.05%) SQL Developer
6 17 (8.13%) DBA
7 15 (7.18%) Senior
8 13 (6.22%) .NET Developer
8 13 (6.22%) Payroll Consultant
8 13 (6.22%) SQL DBA
9 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Architect
10 10 (4.78%) Database Developer
11 9 (4.31%) Analyst
12 8 (3.83%) Applications Developer
12 8 (3.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.83%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.83%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.83%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (27.75%) .NET
2 43 (20.57%) .NET Framework
3 32 (15.31%) XML
4 19 (9.09%) PySpark
5 16 (7.66%) WinForms
6 14 (6.70%) WPF
7 13 (6.22%) React
8 12 (5.74%) CSS
9 11 (5.26%) JSON
10 10 (4.78%) HTML
10 10 (4.78%) REST
11 7 (3.35%) RESTful
11 7 (3.35%) SPFx
11 7 (3.35%) YAML
12 5 (2.39%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.91%) ASP.NET
13 4 (1.91%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.91%) SOAP
14 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
14 3 (1.44%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.22%) Replication
2 12 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.35%) Clustering
4 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.87%) NHS
4 6 (2.87%) Wiki
5 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.44%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.96%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.48%) Derivative
8 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.48%) Equities
8 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (22.01%) Windows
2 22 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.91%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) HPUX
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.28%) Business Intelligence
2 65 (31.10%) ETL
3 49 (23.44%) Analytics
4 47 (22.49%) Agile
5 45 (21.53%) CI/CD
5 45 (21.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 44 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 44 (21.05%) DevOps
7 42 (20.10%) Data Analysis
8 36 (17.22%) Migration
9 35 (16.75%) Performance Tuning
9 35 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (15.31%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (12.92%) Change Management
12 26 (12.44%) Unit Testing
13 25 (11.96%) Data Engineering
14 24 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (11.48%) Dimensional Modelling
15 22 (10.53%) AI
16 18 (8.61%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 204 (97.61%) SQL
2 64 (30.62%) C#
2 64 (30.62%) PL/SQL
3 49 (23.44%) Python
4 25 (11.96%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.70%) VBA
8 13 (6.22%) VB
9 8 (3.83%) Bicep
10 7 (3.35%) Bash
11 5 (2.39%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.91%) Java
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) C++
13 1 (0.48%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.48%) Groovy
13 1 (0.48%) Scala
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.13%) Degree
3 16 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.83%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.91%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (22.97%) QA
2 39 (18.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.83%) Terraform
2 3 (1.44%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Control-M
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 82 (39.23%) Microsoft
2 59 (28.23%) Oracle
3 35 (16.75%) Citrix
4 30 (14.35%) Databricks
5 7 (3.35%) VMware
6 4 (1.91%) Remedy
7 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.44%) BMC
7 3 (1.44%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.44%) Sybase
8 2 (0.96%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.96%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.48%) Google
9 1 (0.48%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.48%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.48%) Sage
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) Telerik
9 1 (0.48%) Teradata