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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 407 328
Rank change year-on-year +9 -79 -33
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 241 111 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.11% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 85 187
10th Percentile £328 £316 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £668 £683 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +5.28% -20.00% +5.26%
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 13,163 9,956 12,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 34.17% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,618 6,768 9,170
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £762 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 227 522
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.75 £34.20 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.53 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 1 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 1 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 +13 219 £448 -5.79% 83
London -18 114 £453 -9.50% 27
UK excluding London -18 105 £421 +5.28% 60
Work from Home -21 62 £525 - 45
South East -13 51 £405 -7.43% 19
North of England -56 30 £453 +20.67% 17
North West -30 21 £453 -4.74% 8
Yorkshire -56 9 £408 +8.67% 7
South West -22 7 £475 -9.09% 8
Scotland -2 4 £470 - 1
Midlands -58 4 £398 -6.47% 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 8
West Midlands -57 3 £398 -6.47% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Wales -13 2 £313 +71.23% 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 22 (9.13%) IIS
2 12 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.66%) Confluence
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.24%) Apache
4 3 (1.24%) Appian
4 3 (1.24%) Camunda
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.24%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.24%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.24%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (36.93%) Azure
2 73 (30.29%) Power Platform
3 46 (19.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (15.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (12.03%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (8.30%) AWS
7 13 (5.39%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.15%) Serverless
9 8 (3.32%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.32%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.90%) GitHub
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.66%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.56%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) SMTP
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (63.90%) SQL Server
2 61 (25.31%) Power BI
3 58 (24.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 45 (18.67%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (14.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.86%) Oracle Database
7 29 (12.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (9.13%) Data Lake
9 21 (8.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (4.15%) Spark SQL
11 9 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (3.32%) Delta Lake
13 7 (2.90%) Metadata
13 7 (2.90%) Power Query
14 6 (2.49%) DataStage
14 6 (2.49%) MySQL
14 6 (2.49%) Tableau
15 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (2.07%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 17 (7.05%) Git
2 12 (4.98%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.32%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.49%) JIRA
6 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.07%) Mocha
6 5 (2.07%) MSTest
6 5 (2.07%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.83%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.41%) ERwin
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) Moq
8 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 65 (26.97%) Finance
2 54 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.11%) Banking
4 32 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.56%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.07%) Legal
8 4 (1.66%) Advertising
8 4 (1.66%) Law
9 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (36.10%) Developer
2 42 (17.43%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.52%) Consultant
4 33 (13.69%) C# Developer
5 29 (12.03%) Implementation Consultant
6 28 (11.62%) SQL Developer
7 22 (9.13%) Microsoft Engineer
8 20 (8.30%) Senior
9 19 (7.88%) DBA
10 17 (7.05%) SQL DBA
11 14 (5.81%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.39%) Payroll Consultant
13 10 (4.15%) Analyst
13 10 (4.15%) Architect
14 9 (3.73%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.32%) Applications Developer
15 8 (3.32%) C# Application Developer
15 8 (3.32%) Data Architect
15 8 (3.32%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (3.32%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.31%) .NET
2 40 (16.60%) .NET Framework
3 36 (14.94%) XML
4 17 (7.05%) PySpark
5 15 (6.22%) CSS
6 14 (5.81%) HTML
7 13 (5.39%) JSON
7 13 (5.39%) REST
7 13 (5.39%) WinForms
8 12 (4.98%) React
9 11 (4.56%) WPF
10 10 (4.15%) RESTful
11 8 (3.32%) SPFx
12 6 (2.49%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.49%) YAML
13 5 (2.07%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.07%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.07%) Kafka
13 5 (2.07%) SOAP
13 5 (2.07%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.81%) Replication
1 14 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (4.15%) Clustering
2 10 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.90%) NHS
4 6 (2.49%) Wiki
5 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.24%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.24%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.83%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.83%) Equities
7 2 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.41%) Derivative
8 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.41%) Life Science
8 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.50%) Windows
2 23 (9.54%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.90%) Linux
4 4 (1.66%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) HPUX
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.76%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (35.27%) ETL
3 51 (21.16%) Data Modelling
4 50 (20.75%) Analytics
5 49 (20.33%) DevOps
6 47 (19.50%) CI/CD
6 47 (19.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 45 (18.67%) Agile
8 44 (18.26%) Performance Tuning
9 41 (17.01%) Data Analysis
9 41 (17.01%) Migration
10 36 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.69%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (11.20%) AI
13 26 (10.79%) Unit Testing
14 25 (10.37%) Change Management
14 25 (10.37%) Data Engineering
15 24 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.96%) Workflow
16 22 (9.13%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 236 (97.93%) SQL
2 64 (26.56%) C#
2 64 (26.56%) PL/SQL
3 57 (23.65%) Python
4 29 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (8.30%) JavaScript
6 13 (5.39%) VBA
7 12 (4.98%) VB
8 6 (2.49%) Bash
8 6 (2.49%) Bicep
9 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.66%) Java
10 4 (1.66%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.24%) XPath
12 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) R
12 1 (0.41%) Scala
12 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.64%) Degree
4 8 (3.32%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.07%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.09%) Data Quality
2 43 (17.84%) QA
3 5 (2.07%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.73%) Terraform
2 3 (1.24%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.24%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 95 (39.42%) Microsoft
2 59 (24.48%) Oracle
3 33 (13.69%) Citrix
4 29 (12.03%) Databricks
5 6 (2.49%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.49%) VMware
6 4 (1.66%) Remedy
6 4 (1.66%) Sybase
7 3 (1.24%) BMC
7 3 (1.24%) OpenText
7 3 (1.24%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.83%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.83%) Google
8 2 (0.83%) Informatica
8 2 (0.83%) Intapp
8 2 (0.83%) NetCracker
8 2 (0.83%) RedGate
8 2 (0.83%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Foundry