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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 433 346
Rank change year-on-year +38 -87 -52
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 280 119 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.37% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.10% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 95 199
10th Percentile £358 £314 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £672 £710 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.28% -6.76% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £22.13 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £27.50 £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

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 14,207 10,782 12,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.85% 33.12% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,236 7,259 9,143
10th Percentile £360 £347 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 260 493
10th Percentile £34.01 £28.16 £30.75
25th Percentile £52.49 £36.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -8.60% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.30 £75.00
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 18 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 18 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 +11 247 £453 -9.40% 54
London -4 130 £492 -1.60% 18
UK excluding London -26 122 £421 +5.28% 44
Work from Home -16 79 £523 -5.00% 30
South East -7 50 £405 +15.71% 16
North of England -53 40 £405 +8.00% 11
North West -33 27 £403 +1.96% 8
Yorkshire -34 13 £450 +20.00% 3
Scotland -7 9 £470 +17.50% 1
Midlands -56 8 £425 - 6
South West -33 7 £425 -18.27% 4
West Midlands -56 7 £425 - 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -13 3 £313 +53.00% 1
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 32 (11.43%) IIS
2 20 (7.14%) 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%) Apache
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
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 53 (18.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.14%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.07%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.00%) Azure
2 80 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 39 (13.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.00%) AWS
6 27 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.29%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.57%) Serverless
9 9 (3.21%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.50%) GitHub
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Internet
2 5 (1.79%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (69.29%) SQL Server
2 76 (27.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (23.93%) Power BI
4 54 (19.29%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (12.50%) Oracle Database
7 27 (9.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.36%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.64%) MySQL
10 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.93%) MS Access
12 9 (3.21%) OLAP
13 7 (2.50%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.50%) Tableau
14 6 (2.14%) Metadata
14 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (8.57%) Git
2 15 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 13 (4.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (3.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.14%) JIRA
6 6 (2.14%) Mocha
6 6 (2.14%) MSTest
6 6 (2.14%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.71%) GitLab
7 2 (0.71%) Postman
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%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 75 (26.79%) Finance
2 69 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.64%) Banking
4 40 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Legal
7 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Advertising
9 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (40.36%) Developer
2 42 (15.00%) SQL Developer
3 40 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 35 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 35 (12.50%) Consultant
5 29 (10.36%) DBA
6 28 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (9.64%) Senior
8 26 (9.29%) SQL DBA
9 24 (8.57%) .NET Developer
10 20 (7.14%) 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 9 (3.21%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.43%) .NET
2 49 (17.50%) XML
3 42 (15.00%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.86%) HTML
4 22 (7.86%) WinForms
5 21 (7.50%) ASP.NET
6 19 (6.79%) JSON
7 16 (5.71%) CSS
7 16 (5.71%) REST
8 14 (5.00%) XSLT
9 13 (4.64%) React
10 12 (4.29%) PySpark
10 12 (4.29%) WPF
11 11 (3.93%) RESTful
12 10 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.21%) WCF
14 8 (2.86%) SOAP
14 8 (2.86%) SPFx
15 7 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.21%) Replication
2 16 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.00%) Clustering
4 10 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.21%) NHS
6 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Wiki
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.07%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.79%) Windows
2 27 (9.64%) 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%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (32.86%) ETL
3 68 (24.29%) DevOps
4 61 (21.79%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (20.00%) Agile
6 51 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (17.50%) Data Modelling
7 49 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 47 (16.79%) CI/CD
9 42 (15.00%) Data Analysis
9 42 (15.00%) Migration
10 39 (13.93%) Analytics
11 33 (11.79%) Workflow
12 32 (11.43%) AI
12 32 (11.43%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (8.93%) Data Engineering
14 25 (8.93%) Unit Testing
15 24 (8.57%) Change Management
16 23 (8.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 275 (98.21%) SQL
2 93 (33.21%) C#
3 74 (26.43%) PL/SQL
4 50 (17.86%) Python
5 31 (11.07%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.50%) VBA
8 17 (6.07%) 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 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.71%) Scala
16 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.36%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (11.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.21%) Degree
4 9 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.64%) Data Quality
1 41 (14.64%) QA
2 6 (2.14%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.36%) IFRS
4 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.14%) Terraform
2 5 (1.79%) SCOM
3 3 (1.07%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 113 (40.36%) Microsoft
2 71 (25.36%) Oracle
3 33 (11.79%) Citrix
4 17 (6.07%) Databricks
5 10 (3.57%) 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
6 5 (1.79%) VMware
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
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata