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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 459 322
Rank change year-on-year +17 -137 -27
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 253 99 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.77% 0.91% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 83 186
10th Percentile £367 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £611
90th Percentile £725 £670 £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 requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,302 10,869 12,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.24% 32.77% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,290 7,140 8,017
10th Percentile £363 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 298 333
10th Percentile £21.65 £29.00 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.75 £40.00 £44.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.38 £76.00
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 9 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 9 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +6 209 £453 +0.67% 185
London -29 122 £453 +1.80% 87
UK excluding London -30 96 £438 +6.71% 99
Work from Home -21 76 £513 +19.19% 82
North of England -35 39 £428 +9.62% 26
North West -30 28 £475 +13.10% 12
South East -39 22 £475 +26.67% 31
Scotland -13 15 £475 -32.14% 6
Yorkshire -25 11 £400 +6.67% 12
Midlands -40 10 £413 -11.76% 17
West Midlands -36 9 £413 - 13
South West -29 5 £750 +44.23% 4
Wales -13 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -28 1 £425 - 14
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 27 (10.67%) IIS
2 21 (8.30%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.95%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Appian
4 5 (1.98%) Camunda
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (12.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.77%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.19%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.97%) Azure
2 76 (30.04%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (9.49%) AWS
6 14 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.56%) GitHub
8 9 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.16%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.16%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.77%) GCP
11 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.37%) Serverless
12 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.74%) SSL
2 10 (3.95%) Internet
3 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DNS
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 2 (0.79%) PABX
4 2 (0.79%) VLAN
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (75.89%) SQL Server
2 69 (27.27%) Power BI
3 68 (26.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (17.00%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 26 (10.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (9.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (7.51%) MySQL
9 13 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (5.14%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.95%) MS Access
10 10 (3.95%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.56%) Tableau
12 7 (2.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.98%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.98%) OLAP
13 5 (1.98%) Power Query
13 5 (1.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (11.46%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.16%) JIRA
4 8 (3.16%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.77%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.19%) GitLab
6 3 (1.19%) Mocha
6 3 (1.19%) MSTest
6 3 (1.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (26.88%) Finance
2 67 (26.48%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.23%) Banking
5 11 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.16%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Publishing
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (40.32%) Developer
2 35 (13.83%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.44%) SQL Developer
4 32 (12.65%) DBA
5 31 (12.25%) Senior
6 28 (11.07%) SQL DBA
7 27 (10.67%) Lead
8 26 (10.28%) C# Developer
9 21 (8.30%) Applications Support
10 20 (7.91%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (5.14%) Lead Developer
13 11 (4.35%) SQL Server DBA
14 10 (3.95%) Analyst
14 10 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (3.95%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Developer
15 9 (3.56%) Consultant
15 9 (3.56%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.77%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (36.36%) .NET
2 32 (12.65%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.70%) ASP.NET
4 21 (8.30%) WinForms
5 20 (7.91%) XML
6 18 (7.11%) HTML
7 14 (5.53%) JSON
7 14 (5.53%) XSLT
8 12 (4.74%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.74%) Web Services
9 11 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.35%) PySpark
9 11 (4.35%) React
9 11 (4.35%) REST
9 11 (4.35%) SOAP
9 11 (4.35%) WPF
10 10 (3.95%) CSS
11 9 (3.56%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.56%) WCF
12 8 (3.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.70%) Replication
2 16 (6.32%) Clustering
3 14 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.98%) NHS
7 4 (1.58%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 79 (31.23%) Windows
2 44 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.74%) Linux
4 7 (2.77%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.62%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (30.04%) ETL
3 68 (26.88%) DevOps
4 64 (25.30%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (20.95%) CI/CD
6 52 (20.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 51 (20.16%) Data Modelling
8 50 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (18.97%) Agile
10 41 (16.21%) Data Analysis
11 36 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (13.83%) AI
13 32 (12.65%) Migration
14 25 (9.88%) Lakehouse
14 25 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.09%) Change Management
15 23 (9.09%) Data Integration
15 23 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (9.09%) Workflow
16 22 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 250 (98.81%) SQL
2 93 (36.76%) C#
3 63 (24.90%) PL/SQL
4 49 (19.37%) Python
5 32 (12.65%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.70%) VBA
8 15 (5.93%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (5.14%) VB
11 12 (4.74%) XPath
12 8 (3.16%) VBScript
13 7 (2.77%) Bash
13 7 (2.77%) Java
13 7 (2.77%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.79%) Scala
16 1 (0.40%) R
16 1 (0.40%) Ruby
16 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.28%) Degree
4 14 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.74%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) CISA
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.62%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.28%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.37%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.74%) SCOM
2 3 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 107 (42.29%) Microsoft
2 76 (30.04%) Oracle
3 25 (9.88%) Citrix
4 19 (7.51%) Databricks
5 16 (6.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.37%) Intapp
6 6 (2.37%) RedGate
6 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.37%) Sybase
7 5 (1.98%) OpenText
8 4 (1.58%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.58%) Google
9 3 (1.19%) BMC
9 3 (1.19%) eFront
9 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.19%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) Informatica
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.79%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Northgate