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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 447 316
Rank change year-on-year +21 -131 -22
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 261 107 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.33% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.00% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 89 203
10th Percentile £364 £315 £363
25th Percentile £404 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £565 £556 £604
90th Percentile £698 £655 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £435
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -8.37%
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 14,057 10,715 12,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 32.76% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,142 7,134 8,465
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 296 368
10th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £29.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.64 £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 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.80 £79.38 £75.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% +4.00%

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 28 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 28 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 +12 223 £458 +0.33% 141
UK excluding London -17 117 £425 - 78
London -41 115 £492 +3.58% 73
Work from Home -17 74 £513 +12.64% 53
North of England -30 47 £403 -10.50% 25
South East -23 36 £427 +13.96% 21
North West -21 33 £403 -10.50% 17
Yorkshire -33 14 £400 +6.67% 7
Scotland -3 12 £470 +17.50% 1
Midlands -47 10 £400 -5.88% 15
West Midlands -49 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -26 6 £425 -18.27% 6
Wales -18 3 £313 +38.27% 1
East of England -18 2 £425 - 9
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 (10.73%) IIS
2 23 (8.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.92%) Appian
4 5 (1.92%) Camunda
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) MTS
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 48 (18.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.68%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.68%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.92%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 90 (34.48%) Azure
2 77 (29.50%) Power Platform
3 38 (14.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.05%) AWS
7 15 (5.75%) Power Automate
8 13 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.21%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.92%) Serverless
14 4 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.53%) GCP
14 4 (1.53%) GitHub
15 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.83%) Internet
2 7 (2.68%) SSL
3 5 (1.92%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.77%) DHCP
4 2 (0.77%) DNS
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
4 2 (0.77%) LAN
4 2 (0.77%) PABX
4 2 (0.77%) VLAN
4 2 (0.77%) VoIP
4 2 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (69.35%) SQL Server
2 66 (25.29%) Power BI
3 65 (24.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (18.39%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (13.03%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (4.98%) MySQL
8 13 (4.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (4.21%) MS Access
10 9 (3.45%) OLAP
10 9 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 8 (3.07%) Star Schema
11 8 (3.07%) Tableau
12 7 (2.68%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.30%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.81%) Git
2 12 (4.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.60%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.07%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.68%) tSQLt
5 5 (1.92%) JIRA
6 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.15%) Mocha
6 3 (1.15%) MSTest
7 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.77%) GitLab
8 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.38%) Moq
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) Toad
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (25.67%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.29%) Finance
3 43 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.56%) Banking
5 15 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.30%) Legal
8 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Front Office
8 5 (1.92%) Law
9 4 (1.53%) Advertising
9 4 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Billing
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.77%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 106 (40.61%) Developer
2 33 (12.64%) SQL Developer
3 32 (12.26%) Data Engineer
4 30 (11.49%) C# Developer
5 29 (11.11%) Consultant
6 27 (10.34%) DBA
7 25 (9.58%) Lead
8 24 (9.20%) .NET Developer
8 24 (9.20%) Senior
8 24 (9.20%) SQL DBA
9 19 (7.28%) Implementation Consultant
10 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.98%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Analyst
13 11 (4.21%) Software Developer
13 11 (4.21%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.45%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (3.07%) Lead .NET Developer
15 8 (3.07%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (32.95%) .NET
2 37 (14.18%) .NET Framework
3 36 (13.79%) XML
4 23 (8.81%) ASP.NET
5 21 (8.05%) WinForms
6 18 (6.90%) HTML
7 15 (5.75%) JSON
8 14 (5.36%) XSLT
9 13 (4.98%) REST
10 12 (4.60%) PySpark
10 12 (4.60%) React
11 11 (4.21%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (4.21%) CSS
11 11 (4.21%) WPF
12 9 (3.45%) SOAP
12 9 (3.45%) WCF
12 9 (3.45%) Web Services
13 8 (3.07%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.07%) SPFx
14 7 (2.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Replication
2 15 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.60%) Clustering
4 9 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.07%) NHS
6 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.77%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.77%) Derivative
9 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.77%) Equities
9 2 (0.77%) Handset
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.77%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 59 (22.61%) Windows
2 29 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.07%) Linux
4 6 (2.30%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.42%) ETL
2 78 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
3 65 (24.90%) DevOps
4 57 (21.84%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (19.16%) Data Modelling
6 48 (18.39%) Agile
6 48 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (18.01%) CI/CD
8 43 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 42 (16.09%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.41%) AI
10 35 (13.41%) Migration
11 34 (13.03%) Analytics
12 31 (11.88%) Workflow
13 25 (9.58%) Data Integration
14 24 (9.20%) Change Management
14 24 (9.20%) Data Pipeline
15 23 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (8.05%) Data Engineering
17 19 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (98.47%) SQL
2 87 (33.33%) C#
3 66 (25.29%) PL/SQL
4 48 (18.39%) Python
5 29 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.96%) PowerShell
7 21 (8.05%) VBA
8 16 (6.13%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.60%) XPath
10 11 (4.21%) VB
11 8 (3.07%) VBScript
12 6 (2.30%) Java
13 3 (1.15%) Bash
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) Tcl
14 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.20%) Degree
4 11 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CISA
8 1 (0.38%) CISSP
8 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.11%) QA
3 6 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.68%) SCOM
2 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (39.85%) Microsoft
2 67 (25.67%) Oracle
3 29 (11.11%) Citrix
4 18 (6.90%) Databricks
5 12 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.68%) Sybase
7 6 (2.30%) Intapp
8 5 (1.92%) OpenText
8 5 (1.92%) RedGate
8 5 (1.92%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.53%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.15%) BMC
10 3 (1.15%) Remedy
10 3 (1.15%) SYSPRO
11 2 (0.77%) Google
11 2 (0.77%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.77%) Teradata
12 1 (0.38%) Foundry
12 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.38%) Telerik