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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 428 343
Rank change year-on-year +36 -85 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 257 105 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 1.04% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 82 192
10th Percentile £360 £323 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -13.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £662
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.28% -6.76% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -90.09%

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 13,529 10,089 13,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.84% 33.90% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,814 6,837 9,299
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £626 £650
90th Percentile £716 £758 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +2.75% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 237 546
10th Percentile £35.25 £25.55 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £84.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year +4.84% -1.98% +1.20%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +12 235 £453 -0.71% 51
London +8 126 £490 +1.82% 22
UK excluding London -27 107 £421 +5.28% 45
Work from Home -11 70 £538 -5.91% 42
South East -7 51 £405 -7.43% 12
North of England -54 31 £403 +7.40% 14
North West -22 22 £403 +1.32% 9
Yorkshire -58 9 £408 +8.67% 4
South West -18 8 £475 -8.65% 5
Scotland -9 5 £475 - 2
Midlands -58 5 £400 -5.88% 2
West Midlands -51 4 £400 -5.88% 1
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 22 (8.56%) IIS
2 13 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.56%) Appian
4 4 (1.56%) Camunda
4 4 (1.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Elite 3E
1 4 (1.56%) OpenText MBPM
1 4 (1.56%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.17%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.02%) Azure
2 79 (30.74%) Power Platform
3 43 (16.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (12.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (9.73%) AWS
5 25 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.67%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.89%) Serverless
8 9 (3.50%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
12 4 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.89%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (65.76%) SQL Server
2 67 (26.07%) Power BI
3 66 (25.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (17.90%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (15.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.06%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (8.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (7.78%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.89%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.11%) Delta Lake
12 8 (3.11%) MySQL
12 8 (3.11%) OLAP
13 7 (2.72%) Power Query
14 6 (2.33%) DataStage
14 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.33%) Tableau
15 5 (1.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (7.00%) Git
2 12 (4.67%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.33%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Mocha
5 6 (2.33%) MSTest
5 6 (2.33%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 72 (28.02%) Finance
2 59 (22.96%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.40%) Banking
4 33 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Advertising
9 3 (1.17%) Law
9 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 100 (38.91%) Developer
2 42 (16.34%) Data Engineer
3 38 (14.79%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.23%) Consultant
5 32 (12.45%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.89%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.34%) Microsoft Engineer
8 22 (8.56%) DBA
8 22 (8.56%) Senior
9 19 (7.39%) SQL DBA
10 18 (7.00%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.06%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.67%) Lead
13 10 (3.89%) Analyst
13 10 (3.89%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.50%) Architect
15 8 (3.11%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.11%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (3.11%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.72%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.24%) .NET
2 40 (15.56%) XML
3 39 (15.18%) .NET Framework
4 16 (6.23%) CSS
4 16 (6.23%) PySpark
4 16 (6.23%) REST
5 15 (5.84%) HTML
6 12 (4.67%) JSON
6 12 (4.67%) React
6 12 (4.67%) WinForms
7 11 (4.28%) RESTful
7 11 (4.28%) WPF
8 10 (3.89%) ASP.NET
9 8 (3.11%) SPFx
10 7 (2.72%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.72%) SOAP
10 7 (2.72%) XSLT
11 5 (1.95%) Entity Framework
11 5 (1.95%) Kafka
11 5 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.06%) Replication
3 10 (3.89%) Clustering
3 10 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.72%) NHS
5 6 (2.33%) Wiki
6 5 (1.95%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.56%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.17%) Equities
8 3 (1.17%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (17.90%) Windows
2 22 (8.56%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.72%) Linux
4 4 (1.56%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.19%) Business Intelligence
1 93 (36.19%) ETL
2 53 (20.62%) DevOps
2 53 (20.62%) Performance Tuning
3 52 (20.23%) Data Modelling
4 51 (19.84%) Agile
5 50 (19.46%) CI/CD
6 48 (18.68%) Analytics
7 47 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (15.56%) Data Analysis
10 39 (15.18%) Migration
11 34 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (11.28%) AI
13 27 (10.51%) Data Engineering
13 27 (10.51%) Workflow
14 26 (10.12%) Unit Testing
15 25 (9.73%) Change Management
15 25 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (8.95%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 252 (98.05%) SQL
2 73 (28.40%) C#
3 65 (25.29%) PL/SQL
4 56 (21.79%) Python
5 32 (12.45%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.06%) VBA
9 11 (4.28%) VB
10 7 (2.72%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.33%) Bash
11 6 (2.33%) Bicep
12 5 (1.95%) Java
12 5 (1.95%) XPath
13 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.39%) Groovy
15 1 (0.39%) R
15 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.00%) Degree
4 8 (3.11%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.12%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.34%) QA
3 5 (1.95%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Terraform
2 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.17%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 104 (40.47%) Microsoft
2 61 (23.74%) Oracle
3 32 (12.45%) Citrix
4 27 (10.51%) Databricks
5 6 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.95%) Sybase
6 5 (1.95%) VMware
7 4 (1.56%) Intapp
7 4 (1.56%) OpenText
7 4 (1.56%) Remedy
8 3 (1.17%) BMC
8 3 (1.17%) RedGate
8 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.17%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.78%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk