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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 447 326
Rank change year-on-year +17 -121 -21
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 258 106 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 0.98% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 87 189
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £606
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -0.92% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
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 14,326 10,858 12,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.10% 33.07% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,317 7,158 7,983
10th Percentile £363 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.31% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 296 332
10th Percentile £23.72 £29.00 £26.33
25th Percentile £46.00 £40.94 £46.14
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.23 £75.00 £78.63
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 30 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 30 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 -8 215 £451 +0.28% 141
London -25 124 £453 -2.05% 49
UK excluding London -34 100 £421 -0.92% 97
Work from Home -30 75 £513 +19.19% 76
North of England -46 44 £401 -2.91% 26
North West -25 31 £440 -2.22% 16
South East -39 21 £410 +9.30% 24
Scotland -8 15 £475 -32.14% 8
Yorkshire -32 13 £350 -6.67% 8
Midlands -40 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -41 8 £413 -2.94% 16
South West -37 6 £588 +12.98% 5
Wales -15 3 £313 -38.12% 1
East of England -26 1 £425 - 13
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 28 (10.85%) IIS
2 22 (8.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.26%) Confluence
4 5 (1.94%) Appian
4 5 (1.94%) Camunda
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.71%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.71%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.94%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.05%) Azure
2 78 (30.23%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (9.69%) AWS
6 17 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.49%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.10%) GitHub
12 7 (2.71%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.33%) GCP
14 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.94%) Serverless
15 4 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 3 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
16 3 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.65%) SSL
2 11 (4.26%) Internet
3 5 (1.94%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.78%) DHCP
4 2 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) LAN
4 2 (0.78%) PABX
4 2 (0.78%) VLAN
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (75.97%) SQL Server
2 70 (27.13%) Power BI
3 68 (26.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (17.44%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.79%) Oracle Database
6 31 (12.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (8.14%) MySQL
9 15 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (5.04%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.88%) MS Access
12 9 (3.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (3.49%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.49%) Tableau
13 8 (3.10%) OLAP
14 5 (1.94%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.94%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.55%) Data Vault
15 4 (1.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (11.24%) Git
2 11 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.88%) JIRA
3 10 (3.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.10%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.71%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.16%) GitLab
6 3 (1.16%) Mocha
6 3 (1.16%) MSTest
6 3 (1.16%) Subversion
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.39%) Moq
8 1 (0.39%) Toad
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (27.13%) Finance
2 67 (25.97%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.12%) Banking
5 13 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.10%) Front Office
7 5 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.55%) Law
8 4 (1.55%) Retail
9 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.16%) Legal
9 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.78%) Publishing
11 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 105 (40.70%) Developer
2 35 (13.57%) SQL Developer
3 34 (13.18%) Data Engineer
4 33 (12.79%) DBA
5 31 (12.02%) Senior
6 30 (11.63%) SQL DBA
7 28 (10.85%) Lead
8 27 (10.47%) C# Developer
9 20 (7.75%) .NET Developer
10 19 (7.36%) Applications Support
11 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (5.04%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.65%) Analyst
13 12 (4.65%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.88%) Consultant
16 9 (3.49%) Software Developer
16 9 (3.49%) SQL Server Developer
17 8 (3.10%) Senior Developer
18 7 (2.71%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (35.27%) .NET
2 34 (13.18%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.53%) WinForms
4 21 (8.14%) ASP.NET
5 20 (7.75%) XML
6 19 (7.36%) HTML
7 14 (5.43%) JSON
7 14 (5.43%) XSLT
8 12 (4.65%) Web Services
8 12 (4.65%) WPF
9 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.26%) CSS
9 11 (4.26%) PySpark
9 11 (4.26%) React
9 11 (4.26%) REST
9 11 (4.26%) SOAP
10 9 (3.49%) WCF
11 8 (3.10%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.91%) Replication
2 16 (6.20%) Clustering
3 14 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.88%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.71%) NHS
8 4 (1.55%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.16%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.16%) Derivative
9 3 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Equities
10 2 (0.78%) Handset
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.23%) Windows
2 42 (16.28%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.26%) Linux
4 6 (2.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Rocky
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.40%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (31.01%) ETL
3 67 (25.97%) DevOps
4 62 (24.03%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 50 (19.38%) Data Modelling
6 50 (19.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 50 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (18.99%) Agile
8 44 (17.05%) Data Analysis
9 36 (13.95%) AI
9 36 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (12.40%) Migration
11 29 (11.24%) Analytics
12 28 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (9.69%) Workflow
14 24 (9.30%) Lakehouse
15 23 (8.91%) Change Management
15 23 (8.91%) Data Integration
15 23 (8.91%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 255 (98.84%) SQL
2 93 (36.05%) C#
3 66 (25.58%) PL/SQL
4 51 (19.77%) Python
5 32 (12.40%) PowerShell
6 31 (12.02%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.14%) VBA
8 15 (5.81%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.65%) VB
9 12 (4.65%) XPath
10 11 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (3.10%) Bash
11 8 (3.10%) VBScript
12 7 (2.71%) Java
13 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.78%) Scala
16 1 (0.39%) R
16 1 (0.39%) Ruby
16 1 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.24%) Degree
4 14 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.65%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CISA
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.47%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.39%) ITGC
5 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.33%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.65%) SCOM
2 3 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Puppet
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 108 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 76 (29.46%) Oracle
3 27 (10.47%) Citrix
4 20 (7.75%) Databricks
5 16 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.33%) Intapp
6 6 (2.33%) RedGate
6 6 (2.33%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.33%) Sybase
7 5 (1.94%) OpenText
8 4 (1.55%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.55%) Google
9 3 (1.16%) BMC
9 3 (1.16%) eFront
9 3 (1.16%) Remedy
9 3 (1.16%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.16%) Teradata
10 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.39%) Northgate