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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 410 336
Rank change year-on-year +8 -74 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 232 115 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.39% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 1.15% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 81 181
10th Percentile £350 £320 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £664 £725 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +6.25% -21.95% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £23.70 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £24.75 £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 12,851 10,000 12,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.80% 34.03% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,445 6,789 9,043
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £710 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 241 493
10th Percentile £41.25 £24.66 £32.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £85.00 £78.75
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 18 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 18 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 +4 211 £445 -11.00% 77
London -6 114 £445 -13.17% 19
UK excluding London -35 97 £425 +6.25% 59
Work from Home -14 58 £525 -4.55% 39
South East -21 47 £405 -7.43% 16
North of England -60 27 £500 +33.33% 23
North West -24 20 £500 +21.95% 10
South West -17 7 £475 -9.52% 5
Yorkshire -58 7 £408 +8.67% 11
Scotland +1 4 £470 - 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 6
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Midlands -68 3 £398 -6.47% 8
West Midlands -59 2 £398 -6.47% 4
Wales -12 1 - - 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 21 (9.05%) IIS
2 9 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Mule
6 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (19.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.29%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.43%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.93%) Azure
2 67 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 49 (21.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (17.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (8.19%) AWS
7 13 (5.60%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.88%) Serverless
9 8 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.45%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.02%) GitHub
11 6 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.29%) Azure Storage
14 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.17%) Internet
2 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) LAN
3 1 (0.43%) SMTP
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (64.22%) SQL Server
2 56 (24.14%) Power BI
3 51 (21.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (19.83%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (12.93%) Oracle Database
6 28 (12.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 26 (11.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (9.48%) Data Lake
9 17 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (4.74%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.45%) Metadata
12 8 (3.45%) Power Query
12 8 (3.45%) Spark SQL
13 7 (3.02%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.59%) DataStage
14 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (2.59%) MySQL
14 6 (2.59%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.16%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 17 (7.33%) Git
2 13 (5.60%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.02%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.59%) JIRA
5 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.16%) Mocha
5 5 (2.16%) MSTest
5 5 (2.16%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.86%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.43%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) Moq
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Coded UI
8 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 64 (27.59%) Finance
2 55 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Banking
4 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.16%) Legal
7 4 (1.72%) Advertising
7 4 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (36.21%) Developer
2 43 (18.53%) Data Engineer
3 35 (15.09%) C# Developer
3 35 (15.09%) Consultant
4 29 (12.50%) Implementation Consultant
5 25 (10.78%) SQL Developer
6 21 (9.05%) Senior
7 19 (8.19%) DBA
7 19 (8.19%) Microsoft Engineer
8 16 (6.90%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.47%) SQL DBA
10 13 (5.60%) Payroll Consultant
11 10 (4.31%) Analyst
11 10 (4.31%) Architect
12 9 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Database Developer
13 8 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.45%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (3.45%) C# Application Developer
13 8 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.00%) .NET
2 39 (16.81%) .NET Framework
3 33 (14.22%) XML
4 18 (7.76%) PySpark
5 15 (6.47%) CSS
5 15 (6.47%) WinForms
6 14 (6.03%) React
7 13 (5.60%) HTML
7 13 (5.60%) WPF
8 11 (4.74%) JSON
8 11 (4.74%) REST
9 10 (4.31%) RESTful
10 8 (3.45%) SPFx
11 7 (3.02%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.59%) YAML
13 5 (2.16%) ASP.NET
13 5 (2.16%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.16%) Kafka
13 5 (2.16%) Middleware
14 4 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.60%) Replication
2 12 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.45%) Clustering
3 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.59%) NHS
4 6 (2.59%) Wiki
5 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.29%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.86%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.86%) Equities
6 2 (0.86%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.43%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.43%) Derivative
7 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.40%) Windows
2 25 (10.78%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.16%) Linux
4 2 (0.86%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) HPUX
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (39.66%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (34.48%) ETL
3 53 (22.84%) Analytics
4 51 (21.98%) Data Modelling
5 48 (20.69%) Agile
6 46 (19.83%) CI/CD
7 45 (19.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (18.97%) DevOps
9 42 (18.10%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (17.24%) Data Analysis
11 37 (15.95%) Migration
12 36 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (11.64%) Data Engineering
14 27 (11.64%) Unit Testing
15 25 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (9.91%) AI
16 23 (9.91%) Change Management
17 22 (9.48%) Dimensional Modelling
18 19 (8.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 226 (97.41%) SQL
2 65 (28.02%) C#
3 64 (27.59%) PL/SQL
4 57 (24.57%) Python
5 27 (11.64%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.48%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.60%) VB
8 13 (5.60%) VBA
9 6 (2.59%) Bash
9 6 (2.59%) Bicep
10 5 (2.16%) Java
10 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.47%) Degree
4 8 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.16%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) HP APS
9 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (20.26%) Data Quality
1 47 (20.26%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) GDPR
3 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) IFRS
4 1 (0.43%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (3.88%) Terraform
2 3 (1.29%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Control-M
4 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 94 (40.52%) Microsoft
2 58 (25.00%) Oracle
3 33 (14.22%) Citrix
4 32 (13.79%) Databricks
5 7 (3.02%) VMware
6 6 (2.59%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.72%) Remedy
7 4 (1.72%) Sybase
8 3 (1.29%) BMC
8 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.86%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.86%) Google
9 2 (0.86%) Informatica
9 2 (0.86%) RedGate
9 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.43%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.43%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.43%) Telerik
10 1 (0.43%) Teradata