T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 462 327
Rank change year-on-year -2 -135 -19
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 248 112 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.33% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 1.01% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 89 163
10th Percentile £350 £304 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +6.71% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
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 - - +112.73%

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 citing coding skills.

6 months to
30 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills 14,640 11,142 11,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 26.71% 32.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,546 7,304 7,624
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 313 298
10th Percentile £21.08 £29.00 £25.26
25th Percentile £42.36 £42.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -4.80% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.84 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £77.25 £75.00
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 October 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 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 204 £453 +0.67% 47
London -40 122 £475 +5.56% 12
UK excluding London -35 90 £438 +6.71% 40
Work from Home -16 78 £500 +11.11% 30
North of England -32 36 £400 +2.56% 9
North West -26 25 £403 -4.17% 3
South East -45 20 £475 +26.67% 11
Scotland -6 15 £475 -32.14% 2
Yorkshire -32 11 £400 +6.67% 5
West Midlands -31 9 £413 - 8
Midlands -46 9 £413 -11.76% 12
South West -24 5 £750 +44.23% 3
Wales -14 3 £313 -23.78%
East of England -20 1 £425 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

T-SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SQL98.8%245
2C#35.9%89
3PL/SQL22.2%55
4Python20.6%51
5PowerShell14.1%35
6JavaScript10.9%27
7VBA8.1%20
8VB.NET6.0%15
9Data Analysis Expressions5.2%13
10XPath4.8%12
11VB4.4%11
12Bash3.6%9
12Shell Script3.6%9
14VBScript3.2%8
15Java2.8%7
16TypeScript2.0%5
17Scala0.8%2
18R0.4%1
18Ruby0.4%1
18Tcl0.4%1