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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 350 311
Rank change year-on-year -104 -39 -54
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 120 180 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 1.74% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 123 186
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £404 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £625 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £9.19
25th Percentile - £45.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £16.11
% change year-on-year - +303.48% -53.97%

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 11,145 10,321 12,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 32.75% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,384 6,550 9,218
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.13%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.28% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 238 418
10th Percentile £35.63 £21.25 £34.20
25th Percentile £51.38 £36.00 £46.67
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £78.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -

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 12 January 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 16 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 12 January 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 -121 104 £415 -17.00% 184
London -33 67 £415 -20.95% 58
Work from Home -38 41 £463 +0.54% 169
UK excluding London -85 38 £450 - 198
North of England -53 14 £450 +23.12% 32
North West -29 10 £450 +33.14% 20
Wales +1 5 £600 +272.67% 14
South West -14 5 £550 +15.79% 27
South East -42 5 £475 -9.52% 57
Yorkshire -41 4 £375 - 9
Midlands -57 4 £550 +22.22% 23
Scotland +2 3 £700 +80.65% 25
East Midlands -22 3 £550 +54.49% 16
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
West Midlands -43 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 - - 24

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 15 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.83%) Azure
2 33 (27.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 31 (25.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 31 (25.83%) Power Platform
4 21 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.33%) AWS
6 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (7.50%) Serverless
7 8 (6.67%) GitHub
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Functions
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.83%) SaaS
9 6 (5.00%) AtomSphere
9 6 (5.00%) Boomi
9 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.00%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.17%) GCP
11 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
11 4 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) DHCP
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (65.83%) SQL Server
2 28 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (23.33%) Power BI
3 23 (19.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (17.50%) Oracle Database
5 19 (15.83%) Data Lake
6 15 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
9 8 (6.67%) Metadata
10 7 (5.83%) Power Query
10 7 (5.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (4.17%) DataStage
12 5 (4.17%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.17%) Spark SQL
12 5 (4.17%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.50%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) Git
1 12 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.67%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.83%) Appium
5 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.83%) GitLab
5 1 (0.83%) JMeter
5 1 (0.83%) Moq
5 1 (0.83%) Poetry
5 1 (0.83%) Postman
5 1 (0.83%) Pylint
5 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 33 (27.50%) Finance
2 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Banking
4 13 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Law
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Back Office
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (58.33%) Developer
2 28 (23.33%) C# Developer
3 23 (19.17%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.33%) Architect
5 10 (8.33%) Integration Developer
6 8 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 7 (5.83%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.83%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (5.83%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (5.83%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.83%) WPF Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Senior
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
9 5 (4.17%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (35.83%) .NET
2 27 (22.50%) .NET Framework
3 16 (13.33%) PySpark
4 14 (11.67%) WPF
5 12 (10.00%) WinForms
6 10 (8.33%) WCF
6 10 (8.33%) XML
7 9 (7.50%) JSON
7 9 (7.50%) REST
7 9 (7.50%) SOAP
8 8 (6.67%) React
9 7 (5.83%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.00%) Kafka
10 6 (5.00%) Web Services
11 5 (4.17%) Middleware
12 4 (3.33%) ADO
13 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
13 3 (2.50%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.33%) NHS
3 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.83%) Windows
2 16 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (39.17%) Business Intelligence
1 47 (39.17%) CI/CD
2 41 (34.17%) DevOps
3 37 (30.83%) ETL
4 36 (30.00%) Agile
5 35 (29.17%) Analytics
6 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 21 (17.50%) Data Analysis
8 21 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (17.50%) Migration
9 19 (15.83%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (14.17%) Data Engineering
11 16 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (12.50%) Data Governance
13 13 (10.83%) Change Management
13 13 (10.83%) Data Architecture
13 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.00%) Scrum
14 12 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 111 (92.50%) SQL
2 50 (41.67%) C#
3 38 (31.67%) PL/SQL
4 34 (28.33%) Python
5 14 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.17%) VBA
8 9 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (7.50%) VB
9 7 (5.83%) Java
10 6 (5.00%) Groovy
11 5 (4.17%) Bicep
12 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.50%) X++
13 1 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Degree
2 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.83%) HP APS
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.00%) QA
2 20 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) MiFID
3 2 (1.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) EMIR
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) HL7
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.67%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 2 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Control-M
3 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 38 (31.67%) Oracle
3 28 (23.33%) Databricks
4 21 (17.50%) Citrix
5 5 (4.17%) VMware
6 4 (3.33%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.50%) Google
8 2 (1.67%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.67%) Informatica
8 2 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.83%) CQG
9 1 (0.83%) EMC
9 1 (0.83%) HP
9 1 (0.83%) iManage
9 1 (0.83%) Sage
9 1 (0.83%) Sybase
9 1 (0.83%) TOWER Software