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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 442 327
Rank change year-on-year +36 -115 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 273 116 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.07% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 94 203
10th Percentile £367 £329 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £695 £684 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 14,066 10,796 12,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.26% 32.94% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,157 7,202 8,517
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% -5.72% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 290 394
10th Percentile £29.96 £28.24 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.88 £35.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +2 237 £463 -3.90% 64
UK excluding London -7 127 £425 - 47
London -37 119 £492 -1.60% 28
Work from Home -25 76 £513 -6.82% 34
North of England -40 49 £403 -10.50% 12
South East - 45 £417 - 18
North West -17 35 £403 -10.50% 8
Yorkshire -30 14 £400 +6.67% 2
Scotland -11 11 £470 +17.50%
Midlands -48 10 £400 -5.88% 6
West Midlands -46 9 £400 -5.88% 4
South West -43 7 £475 -8.65% 4
Wales -15 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England -14 1 - - 7
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 30 (10.99%) IIS
2 23 (8.42%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.56%) Confluence
4 6 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.83%) Appian
5 5 (1.83%) Camunda
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) Apache
7 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) MTS
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (20.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.56%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.56%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.83%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (32.97%) Azure
2 76 (27.84%) Power Platform
3 40 (14.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (8.42%) AWS
7 15 (5.49%) Power Automate
8 13 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.03%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.20%) Serverless
13 5 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.47%) GCP
14 4 (1.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.66%) Internet
2 7 (2.56%) SSL
3 5 (1.83%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.73%) DHCP
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) LAN
4 2 (0.73%) PABX
4 2 (0.73%) VLAN
4 2 (0.73%) VoIP
4 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (67.03%) SQL Server
2 66 (24.18%) Power BI
3 65 (23.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 49 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (12.82%) Oracle Database
6 30 (10.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 20 (7.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 14 (5.13%) MySQL
8 14 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (4.03%) MS Access
9 11 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.30%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.30%) OLAP
10 9 (3.30%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.93%) Star Schema
12 7 (2.56%) Tableau
13 6 (2.20%) Metadata
13 6 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.20%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.42%) Git
2 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.40%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.93%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.56%) tSQLt
5 6 (2.20%) JIRA
6 4 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.47%) Mocha
6 4 (1.47%) MSTest
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.73%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.37%) Toad
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 70 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.27%) Finance
3 42 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.65%) Banking
5 16 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.20%) Legal
8 5 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.83%) Front Office
8 5 (1.83%) Law
9 4 (1.47%) Advertising
9 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.73%) Billing
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.73%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.37%) Local Government
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 109 (39.93%) Developer
2 38 (13.92%) Consultant
3 33 (12.09%) Data Engineer
3 33 (12.09%) SQL Developer
4 32 (11.72%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.26%) Implementation Consultant
6 27 (9.89%) Senior
7 26 (9.52%) .NET Developer
7 26 (9.52%) DBA
8 24 (8.79%) Lead
9 23 (8.42%) SQL DBA
10 17 (6.23%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.76%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.40%) Analyst
12 12 (4.40%) Lead Developer
13 11 (4.03%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.03%) SQL Server DBA
14 10 (3.66%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (3.66%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.93%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (32.97%) .NET
2 45 (16.48%) XML
3 40 (14.65%) .NET Framework
4 24 (8.79%) ASP.NET
5 21 (7.69%) WinForms
6 19 (6.96%) HTML
7 15 (5.49%) JSON
7 15 (5.49%) REST
8 14 (5.13%) XSLT
9 12 (4.40%) CSS
9 12 (4.40%) PySpark
9 12 (4.40%) React
10 11 (4.03%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.03%) WPF
11 9 (3.30%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.30%) SOAP
11 9 (3.30%) WCF
11 9 (3.30%) Web Services
12 8 (2.93%) RESTful
12 8 (2.93%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.59%) Replication
2 16 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.76%) Clustering
4 9 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.56%) NHS
6 6 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.73%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.73%) Equities
9 2 (0.73%) Handset
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.73%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.73%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.73%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.34%) Windows
2 29 (10.62%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.30%) Linux
4 6 (2.20%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (31.14%) ETL
2 79 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (25.27%) DevOps
4 57 (20.88%) Performance Tuning
5 52 (19.05%) Data Modelling
6 51 (18.68%) Agile
7 50 (18.32%) CI/CD
8 49 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (16.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.75%) Data Analysis
11 37 (13.55%) AI
11 37 (13.55%) Migration
12 35 (12.82%) Analytics
13 33 (12.09%) Workflow
14 25 (9.16%) Change Management
14 25 (9.16%) Data Integration
15 24 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
16 21 (7.69%) Data Engineering
16 21 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 268 (98.17%) SQL
2 91 (33.33%) C#
3 71 (26.01%) PL/SQL
4 47 (17.22%) Python
5 30 (10.99%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.69%) VBA
8 16 (5.86%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.40%) XPath
10 11 (4.03%) VB
11 8 (2.93%) VBScript
12 7 (2.56%) Java
13 3 (1.10%) Bash
13 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.73%) Bicep
14 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.79%) Degree
4 11 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CISA
8 1 (0.37%) CISSP
8 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.75%) Data Quality
2 31 (11.36%) QA
3 6 (2.20%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.56%) SCOM
2 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.64%) Oracle
3 30 (10.99%) Citrix
4 19 (6.96%) Databricks
5 12 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.56%) Sybase
7 6 (2.20%) Intapp
8 5 (1.83%) OpenText
8 5 (1.83%) RedGate
8 5 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.47%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.10%) BMC
10 3 (1.10%) Google
10 3 (1.10%) Remedy
10 3 (1.10%) SYSPRO
11 2 (0.73%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.37%) MarketAxess
12 1 (0.37%) Palantir
12 1 (0.37%) Tradeweb