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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 454 326
Rank change year-on-year +4 -128 -28
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 251 99 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 0.91% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 83 182
10th Percentile £365 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -15.29% +11.84%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £725 £670 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +6.71% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
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 - - +112.73%

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 14,305 10,822 12,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.22% 32.68% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 7,118 7,976
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £649
90th Percentile £725 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 298 332
10th Percentile £21.53 £29.00 £26.01
25th Percentile £44.50 £41.25 £45.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.88 £75.00
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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -3 207 £453 +0.67% 173
London -24 120 £464 +4.27% 81
UK excluding London -30 96 £438 +6.71% 92
Work from Home -17 76 £513 +19.19% 85
North of England -45 39 £428 +9.62% 22
North West -29 28 £475 +13.10% 10
South East -44 22 £475 +26.67% 31
Scotland -12 15 £475 -32.14% 5
Yorkshire -19 11 £400 +6.67% 11
Midlands -42 10 £413 -11.76% 15
West Midlands -41 9 £413 - 12
South West -27 5 £750 +44.23% 4
Wales -15 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -26 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 26 (10.36%) IIS
2 20 (7.97%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.98%) Confluence
4 5 (1.99%) Appian
4 5 (1.99%) Camunda
4 5 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.79%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.99%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.20%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.25%) Azure
2 75 (29.88%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (10.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (9.56%) AWS
6 14 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.59%) GitHub
9 8 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.79%) GCP
10 7 (2.79%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.79%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.39%) Serverless
12 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) SSL
2 9 (3.59%) Internet
3 5 (1.99%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.80%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 2 (0.80%) LAN
4 2 (0.80%) PABX
4 2 (0.80%) VLAN
4 2 (0.80%) VoIP
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (75.70%) SQL Server
2 69 (27.49%) Power BI
3 68 (27.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (17.13%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (12.75%) Oracle Database
6 26 (10.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (9.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (7.57%) MySQL
9 13 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (5.18%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.98%) MS Access
10 10 (3.98%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.59%) Tableau
12 7 (2.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.99%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.99%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.99%) OLAP
13 5 (1.99%) Power Query
13 5 (1.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (11.55%) Git
2 11 (4.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.38%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.19%) JIRA
4 8 (3.19%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) Mocha
6 3 (1.20%) MSTest
6 3 (1.20%) Subversion
7 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (27.09%) Finance
2 67 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.94%) Banking
5 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.19%) Front Office
7 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Publishing
10 2 (0.80%) Billing
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.80%) Local Government
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 101 (40.24%) Developer
2 35 (13.94%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.55%) SQL Developer
4 32 (12.75%) DBA
5 31 (12.35%) Senior
6 28 (11.16%) SQL DBA
7 27 (10.76%) Lead
8 25 (9.96%) C# Developer
9 21 (8.37%) Applications Support
10 20 (7.97%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.98%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (5.18%) Lead Developer
13 11 (4.38%) SQL Server DBA
14 10 (3.98%) Analyst
14 10 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (3.98%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.98%) SQL Server Developer
15 9 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.19%) Consultant
17 7 (2.79%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (36.25%) .NET
2 31 (12.35%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.76%) ASP.NET
4 20 (7.97%) WinForms
4 20 (7.97%) XML
5 17 (6.77%) HTML
6 14 (5.58%) JSON
6 14 (5.58%) XSLT
7 12 (4.78%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.78%) Web Services
8 11 (4.38%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (4.38%) PySpark
8 11 (4.38%) REST
8 11 (4.38%) SOAP
9 10 (3.98%) React
9 10 (3.98%) WPF
10 9 (3.59%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.59%) CSS
10 9 (3.59%) WCF
11 8 (3.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.76%) Replication
2 16 (6.37%) Clustering
3 14 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.78%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.99%) NHS
7 4 (1.59%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.20%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.20%) Derivative
8 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.80%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.80%) Equities
9 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (31.08%) Windows
2 44 (17.53%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.78%) Linux
4 7 (2.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.87%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (30.28%) ETL
3 68 (27.09%) DevOps
4 64 (25.50%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (21.12%) CI/CD
6 51 (20.32%) Data Modelling
7 50 (19.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 50 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (18.73%) Agile
9 40 (15.94%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.94%) AI
10 35 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.75%) Migration
12 25 (9.96%) Lakehouse
12 25 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (9.16%) Data Integration
13 23 (9.16%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (9.16%) Workflow
14 22 (8.76%) Change Management
14 22 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 248 (98.80%) SQL
2 92 (36.65%) C#
3 61 (24.30%) PL/SQL
4 49 (19.52%) Python
5 32 (12.75%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.76%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.37%) VBA
8 15 (5.98%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.78%) VB
10 12 (4.78%) XPath
11 8 (3.19%) VBScript
12 7 (2.79%) Bash
12 7 (2.79%) Java
12 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.80%) Scala
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Ruby
15 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.36%) Degree
4 14 (5.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.78%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) CISA
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.96%) QA
3 6 (2.39%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.78%) SCOM
2 3 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 107 (42.63%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.48%) Oracle
3 24 (9.56%) Citrix
4 19 (7.57%) Databricks
5 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.39%) Intapp
6 6 (2.39%) RedGate
6 6 (2.39%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.39%) Sybase
7 5 (1.99%) OpenText
8 4 (1.59%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.59%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) BMC
9 3 (1.20%) eFront
9 3 (1.20%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.20%) Teradata
10 2 (0.80%) Informatica
10 2 (0.80%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.80%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Northgate