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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 427 327
Rank change year-on-year +32 -100 -50
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 280 117 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.08% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 94 197
10th Percentile £352 £326 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -5.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £684 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 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 £25.81 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £27.50 - -
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 14,113 10,796 12,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.64% 32.90% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,177 7,277 8,754
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 254 421
10th Percentile £33.70 £27.96 £27.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.85 £82.07 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +7.08%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +19 246 £453 -9.40% 65
UK excluding London +3 127 £425 +6.25% 51
London -17 126 £475 -5.00% 18
Work from Home -8 81 £519 -5.64% 33
South East -20 49 £405 +15.71% 12
North of England -36 44 £403 +1.96% 18
North West -29 30 £403 +1.96% 10
Yorkshire -35 14 £400 - 5
Scotland -8 10 £465 +16.25% 1
Midlands -58 10 £400 -5.88% 8
West Midlands -59 9 £400 -5.88% 8
South West -30 8 £425 -18.27% 8
Wales -15 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England - 2 - - 3
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 (11.07%) IIS
2 22 (7.86%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.79%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) Camunda
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.50%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
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
Cloud Services
1 97 (34.64%) Azure
2 82 (29.29%) Power Platform
3 41 (14.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (10.00%) AWS
7 14 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 10 (3.57%) Serverless
11 8 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Internet
2 6 (2.14%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) LAN
4 2 (0.71%) PABX
4 2 (0.71%) VLAN
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (69.29%) SQL Server
2 75 (26.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (24.64%) Power BI
4 55 (19.64%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (13.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 36 (12.86%) Oracle Database
7 25 (8.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.00%) Data Lake
9 14 (5.00%) MySQL
10 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.93%) MS Access
12 9 (3.21%) OLAP
13 8 (2.86%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.50%) Star Schema
14 7 (2.50%) Tableau
15 6 (2.14%) Metadata
15 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (8.57%) Git
2 12 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.29%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.50%) tSQLt
5 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.14%) Mocha
5 6 (2.14%) MSTest
6 5 (1.79%) JIRA
7 2 (0.71%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) ERwin
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%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 74 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 72 (25.71%) Finance
3 44 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.64%) Banking
5 17 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.79%) Legal
9 4 (1.43%) Advertising
10 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.07%) Law
10 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Billing
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (37.86%) Developer
2 39 (13.93%) Data Engineer
3 37 (13.21%) Consultant
3 37 (13.21%) SQL Developer
4 33 (11.79%) C# Developer
5 30 (10.71%) DBA
6 28 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (9.64%) Senior
7 27 (9.64%) SQL DBA
8 24 (8.57%) .NET Developer
9 22 (7.86%) Lead
10 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.64%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.29%) Analyst
12 12 (4.29%) SQL Server DBA
13 11 (3.93%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.93%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.86%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.43%) .NET
2 49 (17.50%) XML
3 39 (13.93%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.86%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.86%) HTML
4 22 (7.86%) WinForms
5 18 (6.43%) JSON
6 16 (5.71%) REST
7 15 (5.36%) CSS
8 14 (5.00%) XSLT
9 12 (4.29%) PySpark
9 12 (4.29%) React
9 12 (4.29%) WPF
10 11 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (3.57%) RESTful
12 9 (3.21%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.21%) WCF
13 8 (2.86%) SOAP
13 8 (2.86%) SPFx
14 7 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.86%) Replication
2 17 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.36%) Clustering
4 10 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.50%) NHS
6 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Wiki
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.07%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.71%) Handset
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.50%) Windows
2 29 (10.36%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.21%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.21%) ETL
2 89 (31.79%) Business Intelligence
3 68 (24.29%) DevOps
4 62 (22.14%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (20.00%) Agile
6 54 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (18.93%) Data Modelling
8 48 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 46 (16.43%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.36%) Data Analysis
11 39 (13.93%) Migration
12 37 (13.21%) Analytics
13 34 (12.14%) Workflow
14 32 (11.43%) AI
15 31 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (9.29%) Data Engineering
18 23 (8.21%) Change Management
18 23 (8.21%) Data Integration
18 23 (8.21%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 275 (98.21%) SQL
2 93 (33.21%) C#
3 73 (26.07%) PL/SQL
4 49 (17.50%) Python
5 32 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.50%) VBA
8 19 (6.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.71%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.29%) VB
10 12 (4.29%) XPath
11 8 (2.86%) VBScript
12 7 (2.50%) Java
13 6 (2.14%) Bash
13 6 (2.14%) Bicep
14 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.21%) Degree
4 10 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 39 (13.93%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) SCOM
2 5 (1.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (41.79%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.00%) Oracle
3 31 (11.07%) Citrix
4 19 (6.79%) Databricks
5 11 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) Intapp
6 5 (1.79%) OpenText
6 5 (1.79%) RedGate
6 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.79%) Sybase
7 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.43%) Remedy
8 3 (1.07%) BMC
8 3 (1.07%) Google
8 3 (1.07%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.71%) VMware
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata