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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 410 346
Rank change year-on-year -4 -64 -54
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 211 117 250
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.17% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 84 182
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £587
90th Percentile £638 £710 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -78.19%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -18.08% +319.87% -84.97%

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 12,809 10,009 12,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.15% 34.17% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,466 6,797 9,080
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £416 £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 £774 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 250 487
10th Percentile £41.94 £22.50 £31.70
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +1.07%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -17 198 £421 -15.78% 76
London -10 107 £415 -19.02% 24
UK excluding London -47 87 £425 +6.25% 64
Work from Home -19 52 £550 +4.76% 46
South East -22 40 £411 -6.03% 22
North of England -45 27 £500 +33.33% 20
North West -23 20 £500 +21.95% 12
South West -28 7 £475 -9.52% 2
Yorkshire -45 7 £408 +8.67% 8
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Midlands -79 3 £398 -6.47% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland -10 2 £465 - 7
West Midlands -65 2 £398 -6.47% 2
Wales -13 1 - - 3

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 23 (10.90%) IIS
2 7 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) Mule
6 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (20.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.42%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.44%) Azure
2 53 (25.12%) Power Platform
3 44 (20.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (18.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.58%) AWS
7 12 (5.69%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (3.32%) GitHub
9 7 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.32%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.32%) Serverless
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.69%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (67.30%) SQL Server
2 46 (21.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 44 (20.85%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (20.38%) Power BI
5 29 (13.74%) Oracle Database
6 26 (12.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (11.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (10.43%) Data Lake
9 17 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (5.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.27%) Metadata
12 8 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.79%) Power Query
12 8 (3.79%) Spark SQL
13 7 (3.32%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (2.84%) MySQL
14 6 (2.84%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.37%) OLAP
16 4 (1.90%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 17 (8.06%) Git
2 14 (6.64%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.84%) JIRA
5 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.42%) Mocha
5 3 (1.42%) MSTest
5 3 (1.42%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.47%) GitLab
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 61 (28.91%) Finance
2 54 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.27%) Banking
5 12 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.37%) Legal
8 4 (1.90%) Advertising
8 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Local Government
9 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (40.76%) Developer
2 39 (18.48%) C# Developer
3 34 (16.11%) Consultant
3 34 (16.11%) Data Engineer
4 29 (13.74%) Implementation Consultant
5 22 (10.43%) SQL Developer
6 17 (8.06%) DBA
7 16 (7.58%) Senior
8 15 (7.11%) .NET Developer
9 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Payroll Consultant
9 13 (6.16%) SQL DBA
10 10 (4.74%) Architect
10 10 (4.74%) Database Developer
11 9 (4.27%) Analyst
12 8 (3.79%) Applications Developer
12 8 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.79%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.79%) C# Application Developer
12 8 (3.79%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.96%) .NET
2 43 (20.38%) .NET Framework
3 32 (15.17%) XML
4 17 (8.06%) PySpark
5 15 (7.11%) WinForms
6 13 (6.16%) React
6 13 (6.16%) WPF
7 12 (5.69%) CSS
8 11 (5.21%) JSON
9 10 (4.74%) HTML
9 10 (4.74%) REST
10 8 (3.79%) RESTful
11 7 (3.32%) SPFx
11 7 (3.32%) YAML
12 5 (2.37%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.37%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.37%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.90%) SOAP
14 3 (1.42%) ASP.NET Web API
14 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Replication
2 12 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.32%) Clustering
4 6 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.84%) NHS
4 6 (2.84%) Wiki
5 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.42%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.47%) Equities
7 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.33%) Windows
2 22 (10.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.90%) Linux
4 1 (0.47%) HPUX
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.39%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (31.28%) ETL
3 48 (22.75%) Agile
3 48 (22.75%) Analytics
4 44 (20.85%) CI/CD
4 44 (20.85%) Data Modelling
4 44 (20.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (20.38%) DevOps
6 41 (19.43%) Data Analysis
7 36 (17.06%) Performance Tuning
8 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (16.11%) Migration
10 31 (14.69%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (12.80%) Change Management
11 27 (12.80%) Unit Testing
12 25 (11.85%) Data Engineering
13 23 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.90%) Dimensional Modelling
14 22 (10.43%) AI
15 18 (8.53%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 206 (97.63%) SQL
2 65 (30.81%) C#
3 63 (29.86%) PL/SQL
4 49 (23.22%) Python
5 25 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 19 (9.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (8.53%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.16%) VBA
9 12 (5.69%) VB
10 7 (3.32%) Bash
11 6 (2.84%) Bicep
12 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.90%) Java
14 1 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.47%) C++
14 1 (0.47%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.47%) Groovy
14 1 (0.47%) Scala
14 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.06%) Degree
3 16 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.47%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.27%) QA
2 40 (18.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.47%) IFRS
4 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.79%) Terraform
2 3 (1.42%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Control-M
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (39.34%) Microsoft
2 58 (27.49%) Oracle
3 34 (16.11%) Citrix
4 30 (14.22%) Databricks
5 7 (3.32%) VMware
6 4 (1.90%) Remedy
7 3 (1.42%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.42%) BMC
7 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.42%) Sybase
8 2 (0.95%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.47%) Google
9 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.47%) NetCracker
9 1 (0.47%) Sage
9 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.47%) Telerik
9 1 (0.47%) Teradata