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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 446 322
Rank change year-on-year +5 -124 -25
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 257 105 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.32% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 0.98% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 87 192
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £608
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 14,236 10,764 12,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 33.02% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,259 7,099 8,054
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -3.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £648
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.36% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 293 333
10th Percentile £24.20 £29.00 £26.40
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.23 £75.00 £78.50
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 29 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 29 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 -16 214 £453 +0.56% 143
London -28 124 £453 -2.05% 47
UK excluding London -35 100 £421 -0.92% 99
Work from Home -18 74 £514 +19.48% 74
North of England -39 44 £401 -2.91% 25
North West -26 31 £440 -2.22% 16
South East -48 21 £410 +9.30% 24
Scotland -15 15 £475 -32.14% 8
Yorkshire -29 13 £350 -6.67% 8
Midlands -43 9 £413 -2.94% 21
West Midlands -39 8 £413 -2.94% 16
South West -37 6 £588 +12.98% 5
Wales -16 3 £313 -38.12%
East of England -27 1 £425 - 16
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 (10.89%) IIS
2 22 (8.56%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.28%) Confluence
4 5 (1.95%) Appian
4 5 (1.95%) Camunda
4 5 (1.95%) 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 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.72%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.72%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.95%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 3 (1.17%) 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 92 (35.80%) Azure
2 78 (30.35%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (9.34%) AWS
6 17 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.28%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.50%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.72%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.72%) GitHub
12 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.33%) GCP
13 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.95%) Serverless
14 4 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.17%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.67%) SSL
2 11 (4.28%) Internet
3 5 (1.95%) 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
1 195 (75.88%) SQL Server
2 70 (27.24%) Power BI
3 68 (26.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (17.51%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (12.84%) Oracle Database
6 31 (12.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (7.78%) MySQL
9 14 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (4.67%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.89%) MS Access
12 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (3.50%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.50%) Tableau
13 8 (3.11%) OLAP
14 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.95%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.56%) Data Vault
15 4 (1.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (10.89%) Git
2 11 (4.28%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.89%) JIRA
3 10 (3.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 10 (3.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (3.11%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.72%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.17%) GitLab
6 3 (1.17%) Mocha
6 3 (1.17%) MSTest
7 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) Subversion
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 (27.24%) Finance
2 67 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.18%) Banking
5 13 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.11%) Front Office
7 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.56%) Law
8 4 (1.56%) Retail
9 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.17%) Legal
9 3 (1.17%) 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
1 104 (40.47%) Developer
2 35 (13.62%) SQL Developer
3 34 (13.23%) Data Engineer
4 33 (12.84%) DBA
5 31 (12.06%) Senior
6 30 (11.67%) SQL DBA
7 28 (10.89%) Lead
8 27 (10.51%) C# Developer
9 20 (7.78%) .NET Developer
10 19 (7.39%) Applications Support
11 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (5.06%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.67%) Analyst
13 12 (4.67%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (4.28%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (3.89%) Consultant
16 9 (3.50%) Software Developer
16 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Developer
17 8 (3.11%) Senior Developer
18 7 (2.72%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (35.41%) .NET
2 34 (13.23%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.56%) WinForms
4 21 (8.17%) ASP.NET
5 19 (7.39%) XML
6 18 (7.00%) HTML
7 14 (5.45%) XSLT
8 13 (5.06%) JSON
9 12 (4.67%) WPF
10 11 (4.28%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.28%) PySpark
10 11 (4.28%) REST
10 11 (4.28%) Web Services
11 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.89%) CSS
11 10 (3.89%) React
11 10 (3.89%) SOAP
12 9 (3.50%) WCF
13 8 (3.11%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.95%) Replication
2 16 (6.23%) Clustering
3 14 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.89%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.72%) NHS
8 4 (1.56%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.17%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.17%) Derivative
9 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.78%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.78%) Equities
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.35%) Windows
2 42 (16.34%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.89%) 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 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (31.13%) ETL
3 67 (26.07%) DevOps
4 62 (24.12%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (19.84%) CI/CD
6 50 (19.46%) Data Modelling
6 50 (19.46%) Disaster Recovery
6 50 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (19.07%) Agile
8 44 (17.12%) Data Analysis
9 36 (14.01%) AI
10 35 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.45%) Migration
12 29 (11.28%) Analytics
13 28 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (9.73%) Workflow
15 24 (9.34%) Lakehouse
16 23 (8.95%) Change Management
16 23 (8.95%) Data Integration
16 23 (8.95%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 254 (98.83%) SQL
2 93 (36.19%) C#
3 66 (25.68%) PL/SQL
4 50 (19.46%) Python
5 32 (12.45%) PowerShell
6 30 (11.67%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.17%) VBA
8 15 (5.84%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.67%) VB
9 12 (4.67%) XPath
10 11 (4.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (3.11%) VBScript
12 7 (2.72%) Bash
12 7 (2.72%) Java
13 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
14 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.39%) R
15 1 (0.39%) Ruby
15 1 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.28%) Degree
4 14 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.50%) 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 (16.73%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.51%) 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 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.95%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.67%) SCOM
2 3 (1.17%) 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
1 107 (41.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (29.57%) Oracle
3 27 (10.51%) Citrix
4 20 (7.78%) Databricks
5 16 (6.23%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.33%) Intapp
6 6 (2.33%) RedGate
6 6 (2.33%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.33%) Sybase
7 5 (1.95%) OpenText
8 4 (1.56%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.56%) Google
9 3 (1.17%) BMC
9 3 (1.17%) eFront
9 3 (1.17%) Remedy
9 3 (1.17%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.17%) Teradata
10 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.39%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.39%) Northgate