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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 434 332
Rank change year-on-year +32 -102 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 281 117 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.01% 1.08% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 93 198
10th Percentile £352 £322 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £685 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 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 £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
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 14,012 10,835 12,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.52% 32.93% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,103 7,300 8,622
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +3.68% -4.52% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 257 409
10th Percentile £30.25 £27.98 £27.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.25 £46.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £81.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +22 246 £453 -9.40% 70
UK excluding London -2 130 £425 - 52
London -10 123 £490 -2.00% 25
Work from Home -2 84 £518 -5.82% 47
South East -17 50 £411 +17.46% 12
North of England -23 47 £401 -11.00% 17
North West -28 33 £401 -11.00% 9
Yorkshire -30 14 £400 - 5
Scotland -8 10 £465 +16.25% 3
Midlands -50 10 £400 -5.88% 12
West Midlands -51 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -37 8 £425 -18.27% 4
Wales -13 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England -17 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 30 (10.68%) IIS
2 22 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.49%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.78%) Appian
5 5 (1.78%) 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 55 (19.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.49%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.49%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.78%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
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
5 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 99 (35.23%) Azure
2 83 (29.54%) Power Platform
3 42 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (9.61%) AWS
7 14 (4.98%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.91%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (3.20%) Serverless
11 7 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.49%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.78%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.42%) GCP
14 4 (1.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) Internet
2 7 (2.49%) SSL
3 4 (1.42%) 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
1 195 (69.40%) SQL Server
2 76 (27.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 70 (24.91%) Power BI
4 55 (19.57%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (13.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (12.46%) Oracle Database
7 25 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (8.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 15 (5.34%) MySQL
10 14 (4.98%) Data Lake
11 12 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.91%) MS Access
13 9 (3.20%) OLAP
14 8 (2.85%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.49%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.49%) Tableau
16 6 (2.14%) Metadata
16 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (8.90%) Git
2 12 (4.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.27%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.49%) tSQLt
5 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.78%) JIRA
5 5 (1.78%) Mocha
5 5 (1.78%) MSTest
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Moq
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Toad
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 73 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 72 (25.62%) Finance
3 44 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.88%) Banking
5 17 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.42%) Advertising
8 4 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (37.72%) Developer
2 40 (14.23%) Data Engineer
3 38 (13.52%) Consultant
4 36 (12.81%) SQL Developer
5 32 (11.39%) C# Developer
6 31 (11.03%) DBA
7 28 (9.96%) Implementation Consultant
7 28 (9.96%) SQL DBA
8 27 (9.61%) Senior
9 24 (8.54%) .NET Developer
10 23 (8.19%) Lead
11 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.63%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.27%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.91%) Analyst
14 11 (3.91%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.56%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.85%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (30.60%) .NET
2 49 (17.44%) XML
3 38 (13.52%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.83%) ASP.NET
5 21 (7.47%) HTML
5 21 (7.47%) WinForms
6 18 (6.41%) JSON
7 15 (5.34%) REST
8 14 (4.98%) CSS
8 14 (4.98%) XSLT
9 12 (4.27%) PySpark
9 12 (4.27%) React
10 11 (3.91%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (3.91%) WPF
11 9 (3.20%) RESTful
11 9 (3.20%) WCF
12 8 (2.85%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.85%) SOAP
12 8 (2.85%) SPFx
13 7 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.19%) Replication
2 16 (5.69%) Clustering
2 16 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.49%) NHS
5 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.14%) Wiki
6 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.71%) Derivative
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Equities
8 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.71%) Handset
8 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.06%) Windows
2 30 (10.68%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.85%) Linux
4 4 (1.42%) 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 94 (33.45%) ETL
2 90 (32.03%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (24.91%) DevOps
4 63 (22.42%) Performance Tuning
5 55 (19.57%) Agile
6 54 (19.22%) Data Modelling
7 53 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (17.44%) CI/CD
9 45 (16.01%) Disaster Recovery
10 42 (14.95%) Data Analysis
11 41 (14.59%) Migration
12 38 (13.52%) Analytics
13 35 (12.46%) Workflow
14 33 (11.74%) AI
15 31 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
16 28 (9.96%) Data Engineering
17 27 (9.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (8.54%) Data Integration
19 23 (8.19%) Change Management
19 23 (8.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 277 (98.58%) SQL
2 91 (32.38%) C#
3 71 (25.27%) PL/SQL
4 48 (17.08%) Python
5 32 (11.39%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.32%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.12%) VBA
8 19 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.69%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.27%) XPath
11 11 (3.91%) VB
12 8 (2.85%) VBScript
13 6 (2.14%) Bicep
13 6 (2.14%) Java
14 5 (1.78%) Bash
15 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.36%) C++
16 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.36%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (12.81%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.54%) Degree
4 11 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.78%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISA
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.30%) Data Quality
2 37 (13.17%) 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 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.49%) SCOM
2 5 (1.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (41.64%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.56%) Oracle
3 30 (10.68%) Citrix
4 20 (7.12%) Databricks
5 12 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.14%) Intapp
7 5 (1.78%) OpenText
7 5 (1.78%) RedGate
7 5 (1.78%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.42%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.42%) Remedy
8 4 (1.42%) Sybase
9 3 (1.07%) BMC
9 3 (1.07%) Google
9 3 (1.07%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.71%) VMware
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.36%) Telerik
11 1 (0.36%) Teradata