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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 455 304
Rank change year-on-year +21 -151 -19
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 252 107 276
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.33% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 0.99% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 88 206
10th Percentile £358 £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 £605
90th Percentile £710 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
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 - - +44.44%

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 14,171 10,836 12,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 25.96% 32.93% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,194 7,161 8,316
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 293 346
10th Percentile £26.51 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £78.13
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -6 211 £453 +0.56% 173
London -21 122 £453 -0.71% 84
UK excluding London -43 99 £425 - 109
Work from Home -29 71 £514 +25.30% 73
North of England -32 44 £401 -2.91% 30
North West -24 31 £440 -2.22% 23
South East -41 21 £410 +9.30% 26
Scotland -12 14 £475 -32.14% 10
Yorkshire -34 13 £350 -6.67% 7
Midlands -53 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -44 8 £413 -2.94% 18
South West -33 6 £588 +12.98% 6
Wales -14 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -27 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 29 (11.51%) IIS
2 23 (9.13%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.97%) 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%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.71%) Azure
2 79 (31.35%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.73%) AWS
6 19 (7.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.97%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.78%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.98%) GCP
12 5 (1.98%) Serverless
13 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.59%) GitHub
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) Internet
1 12 (4.76%) SSL
2 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.79%) DHCP
3 2 (0.79%) DNS
3 2 (0.79%) Firewall
3 2 (0.79%) LAN
3 2 (0.79%) PABX
3 2 (0.79%) VLAN
3 2 (0.79%) VoIP
3 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (75.40%) SQL Server
2 70 (27.78%) Power BI
3 69 (27.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (13.49%) Oracle Database
6 28 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (7.14%) MySQL
9 12 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.97%) MS Access
10 10 (3.97%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (3.97%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.57%) OLAP
11 9 (3.57%) Tableau
12 7 (2.78%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.38%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.98%) Metadata
15 4 (1.59%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.59%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Git
2 11 (4.37%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (3.57%) JIRA
5 8 (3.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.78%) tSQLt
7 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.19%) Mocha
7 3 (1.19%) MSTest
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) GitLab
9 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.40%) Moq
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Toad
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (26.98%) Finance
2 67 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.48%) Banking
5 13 (5.16%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.78%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Law
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 102 (40.48%) Developer
2 35 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 33 (13.10%) DBA
3 33 (13.10%) SQL Developer
4 30 (11.90%) Senior
4 30 (11.90%) SQL DBA
5 28 (11.11%) Lead
6 27 (10.71%) C# Developer
7 20 (7.94%) .NET Developer
8 17 (6.75%) Applications Support
9 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.76%) SQL Server DBA
12 11 (4.37%) Analyst
12 11 (4.37%) Senior Data Engineer
13 9 (3.57%) Consultant
13 9 (3.57%) Software Developer
14 8 (3.17%) Lead .NET Developer
14 8 (3.17%) SQL Server Developer
15 7 (2.78%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (35.71%) .NET
2 35 (13.89%) .NET Framework
3 23 (9.13%) WinForms
4 21 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 17 (6.75%) HTML
5 17 (6.75%) XML
6 14 (5.56%) XSLT
7 13 (5.16%) WPF
8 12 (4.76%) PySpark
9 11 (4.37%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.37%) JSON
9 11 (4.37%) REST
10 9 (3.57%) CSS
10 9 (3.57%) React
10 9 (3.57%) WCF
10 9 (3.57%) Web Services
11 8 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.17%) SOAP
12 7 (2.78%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.13%) Replication
2 16 (6.35%) Clustering
3 14 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.78%) NHS
7 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.19%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.79%) Derivative
9 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Handset
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 76 (30.16%) Windows
2 39 (15.48%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.78%) Linux
4 6 (2.38%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.54%) ETL
2 80 (31.75%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (26.19%) DevOps
4 64 (25.40%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (19.84%) CI/CD
5 50 (19.84%) Data Modelling
5 50 (19.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (18.65%) Agile
7 43 (17.06%) Data Analysis
8 37 (14.68%) AI
9 31 (12.30%) Analytics
9 31 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (11.90%) Migration
11 25 (9.92%) Data Integration
11 25 (9.92%) Lakehouse
11 25 (9.92%) Workflow
12 24 (9.52%) Change Management
12 24 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 24 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 248 (98.41%) SQL
2 91 (36.11%) C#
3 67 (26.59%) PL/SQL
4 46 (18.25%) Python
5 30 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.51%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.73%) VBA
8 15 (5.95%) VB.NET
9 13 (5.16%) VB
10 12 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.76%) XPath
11 8 (3.17%) VBScript
12 6 (2.38%) Java
13 3 (1.19%) Bash
13 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) Bicep
14 1 (0.40%) R
14 1 (0.40%) Scala
14 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.51%) Degree
4 14 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CISA
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 28 (11.11%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.76%) SCOM
2 3 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 106 (42.06%) Microsoft
2 77 (30.56%) Oracle
3 28 (11.11%) Citrix
4 18 (7.14%) Databricks
5 16 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.38%) Intapp
6 6 (2.38%) RedGate
6 6 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.38%) Sybase
7 5 (1.98%) OpenText
8 4 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.19%) BMC
9 3 (1.19%) Google
9 3 (1.19%) Remedy
9 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.19%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.40%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.40%) Foundry
11 1 (0.40%) Palantir