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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 428 319
Rank change year-on-year +25 -109 -32
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 276 118 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.36% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.09% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 94 199
10th Percentile £350 £326 £363
25th Percentile £404 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +9.38%
75th Percentile £555 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -1.83% - -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 14,097 10,814 12,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.41% 32.80% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,179 7,253 8,533
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £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 523 269 408
10th Percentile £30.10 £28.18 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £45.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.95 £84.60 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 12 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 12 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 +15 241 £453 -8.25% 139
UK excluding London -6 129 £417 -1.83% 67
London -26 118 £483 -3.50% 81
Work from Home -7 81 £514 -6.59% 60
South East -20 48 £404 +15.36% 17
North of England -36 48 £403 -10.50% 22
North West -22 34 £403 -10.50% 12
Yorkshire -31 14 £400 - 8
Midlands -49 11 £398 -6.47% 12
Scotland -2 10 £465 +16.25% 2
West Midlands -40 10 £398 -6.47% 9
South West -36 7 £475 -8.65% 4
Wales -10 3 £313 +53.00%
East of England -18 1 - - 10
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 31 (11.23%) IIS
2 22 (7.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.54%) Confluence
4 6 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.81%) Appian
5 5 (1.81%) Camunda
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) MTS
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 57 (20.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.54%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.81%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.42%) Azure
2 80 (28.99%) Power Platform
3 40 (14.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.42%) AWS
5 26 (9.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (5.07%) Power Automate
7 12 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (3.99%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.54%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.54%) Serverless
11 6 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.81%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.45%) GCP
14 3 (1.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.99%) Internet
2 7 (2.54%) SSL
3 5 (1.81%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.72%) DHCP
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) LAN
4 2 (0.72%) PABX
4 2 (0.72%) VLAN
4 2 (0.72%) VoIP
4 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (68.48%) SQL Server
2 70 (25.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (24.28%) Power BI
4 53 (19.20%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 32 (11.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (7.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (6.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (5.80%) MySQL
10 13 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.99%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.99%) MS Access
12 9 (3.26%) OLAP
13 8 (2.90%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.54%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.54%) Tableau
15 6 (2.17%) Metadata
15 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.17%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (7.97%) Git
2 12 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.54%) tSQLt
5 6 (2.17%) JIRA
6 5 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.81%) Mocha
6 5 (1.81%) MSTest
7 2 (0.72%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Moq
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Toad
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 71 (25.72%) Finance
2 70 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.49%) Banking
5 16 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Advertising
9 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Law
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Local Government
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (38.04%) Developer
2 38 (13.77%) Consultant
2 38 (13.77%) Data Engineer
3 34 (12.32%) SQL Developer
4 33 (11.96%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.14%) DBA
5 28 (10.14%) Implementation Consultant
6 27 (9.78%) Senior
7 25 (9.06%) SQL DBA
8 24 (8.70%) .NET Developer
9 23 (8.33%) Lead
10 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) Analyst
11 13 (4.71%) Payroll Consultant
12 11 (3.99%) Lead Developer
12 11 (3.99%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.99%) SQL Server DBA
13 10 (3.62%) C# .NET Developer
13 10 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (2.90%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.88%) .NET
2 46 (16.67%) XML
3 39 (14.13%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.97%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.97%) WinForms
5 20 (7.25%) HTML
6 15 (5.43%) JSON
7 14 (5.07%) REST
7 14 (5.07%) XSLT
8 13 (4.71%) CSS
8 13 (4.71%) PySpark
9 12 (4.35%) React
9 12 (4.35%) WPF
10 11 (3.99%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (3.26%) RESTful
11 9 (3.26%) WCF
12 8 (2.90%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.90%) SPFx
13 7 (2.54%) SOAP
13 7 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.25%) Replication
2 16 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.07%) Clustering
4 9 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.54%) NHS
6 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.45%) Wiki
8 3 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.72%) Equities
9 2 (0.72%) Handset
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.72%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.46%) Windows
2 29 (10.51%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.26%) Linux
4 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.61%) ETL
2 84 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (25.00%) DevOps
4 60 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (19.20%) Data Modelling
6 51 (18.48%) Agile
7 49 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (17.39%) CI/CD
9 46 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.58%) Data Analysis
11 40 (14.49%) Migration
12 37 (13.41%) Analytics
13 34 (12.32%) Workflow
14 33 (11.96%) AI
15 28 (10.14%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (9.06%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.70%) Change Management
17 24 (8.70%) Data Integration
18 23 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 22 (7.97%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 272 (98.55%) SQL
2 89 (32.25%) C#
3 71 (25.72%) PL/SQL
4 46 (16.67%) Python
5 29 (10.51%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.14%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.97%) VBA
8 17 (6.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.80%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.35%) VB
10 12 (4.35%) XPath
11 8 (2.90%) VBScript
12 5 (1.81%) Bash
12 5 (1.81%) Java
13 3 (1.09%) Bicep
14 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.36%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.70%) Degree
4 11 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISA
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 36 (13.04%) QA
3 5 (1.81%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.54%) SCOM
2 5 (1.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (40.58%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.36%) Oracle
3 31 (11.23%) Citrix
4 20 (7.25%) Databricks
5 12 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.17%) Intapp
7 5 (1.81%) OpenText
7 5 (1.81%) RedGate
7 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.81%) Sybase
8 4 (1.45%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.45%) Remedy
9 3 (1.09%) BMC
9 3 (1.09%) Google
9 3 (1.09%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.36%) Foundry
11 1 (0.36%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir
11 1 (0.36%) Tradeweb