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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 458 310
Rank change year-on-year +34 -148 -24
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 253 107 274
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 0.99% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 88 207
10th Percentile £367 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -13.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £609
90th Percentile £695 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
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 14,215 10,846 12,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.03% 32.85% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 7,180 8,365
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 298 342
10th Percentile £27.75 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.76 £36.96 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -

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 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 11 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 -5 214 £453 +0.67% 111
London -16 122 £453 -4.63% 51
UK excluding London -34 101 £425 - 71
Work from Home -37 71 £514 +25.30% 106
North of England -35 46 £405 -10.00% 11
North West -18 31 £440 -2.22% 9
South East -37 22 £410 +9.30% 19
Yorkshire -26 15 £350 -6.67% 2
Scotland -9 12 £475 -32.14% 4
Midlands -48 9 £413 -2.94% 18
West Midlands -43 8 £413 -2.94% 16
South West -45 6 £588 +12.98% 11
Wales -16 3 £313 -47.92% 1
East of England -31 2 £425 - 7
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 28 (11.07%) IIS
2 25 (9.88%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.56%) 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 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.77%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.97%) Azure
2 82 (32.41%) Power Platform
3 35 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.30%) AWS
7 14 (5.53%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.74%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.98%) Serverless
13 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.58%) GCP
13 4 (1.58%) GitHub
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.74%) SSL
2 11 (4.35%) Internet
3 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DNS
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 2 (0.79%) PABX
4 2 (0.79%) VLAN
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (74.31%) SQL Server
2 71 (28.06%) Power BI
2 71 (28.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 46 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (13.04%) Oracle Database
5 28 (11.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 25 (9.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (7.11%) MySQL
8 12 (4.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (4.35%) Star Schema
10 10 (3.95%) MS Access
10 10 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.56%) OLAP
11 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.56%) Tableau
12 8 (3.16%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.77%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.98%) Metadata
14 5 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (9.49%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.16%) JIRA
4 8 (3.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.77%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.77%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.19%) Mocha
6 3 (1.19%) MSTest
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (28.46%) Finance
2 71 (28.06%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (15.81%) Banking
5 14 (5.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.37%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.58%) Law
8 4 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 103 (40.71%) Developer
2 34 (13.44%) Data Engineer
3 32 (12.65%) SQL Developer
4 31 (12.25%) DBA
5 29 (11.46%) SQL DBA
6 28 (11.07%) C# Developer
6 28 (11.07%) Lead
6 28 (11.07%) Senior
7 22 (8.70%) .NET Developer
8 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Engineer
9 14 (5.53%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.14%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.35%) Analyst
11 11 (4.35%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.35%) SQL Server DBA
12 10 (3.95%) Consultant
12 10 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (3.16%) Lead .NET Developer
14 7 (2.77%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (35.18%) .NET
2 34 (13.44%) .NET Framework
3 23 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 22 (8.70%) WinForms
5 18 (7.11%) HTML
5 18 (7.11%) XML
6 14 (5.53%) JSON
6 14 (5.53%) XSLT
7 13 (5.14%) PySpark
8 12 (4.74%) REST
8 12 (4.74%) WPF
9 11 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.35%) React
10 10 (3.95%) CSS
11 9 (3.56%) WCF
11 9 (3.56%) Web Services
12 8 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.16%) SOAP
12 8 (3.16%) SPFx
13 6 (2.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.09%) Replication
2 16 (6.32%) Clustering
3 15 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.77%) NHS
7 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.79%) Derivative
10 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.79%) Equities
10 2 (0.79%) Handset
10 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.79%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 72 (28.46%) Windows
2 36 (14.23%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.77%) Linux
4 6 (2.37%) 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 83 (32.81%) ETL
2 82 (32.41%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (27.27%) DevOps
4 63 (24.90%) Performance Tuning
5 52 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.76%) Agile
6 50 (19.76%) Data Modelling
7 48 (18.97%) CI/CD
8 46 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (17.79%) Data Analysis
10 38 (15.02%) AI
11 33 (13.04%) Analytics
12 29 (11.46%) Migration
13 28 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (10.67%) Data Integration
15 26 (10.28%) Change Management
15 26 (10.28%) Lakehouse
15 26 (10.28%) Workflow
16 25 (9.88%) Root Cause Analysis
17 24 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 249 (98.42%) SQL
2 91 (35.97%) C#
3 69 (27.27%) PL/SQL
4 49 (19.37%) Python
5 32 (12.65%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.30%) VBA
8 15 (5.93%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.74%) VB
10 12 (4.74%) XPath
11 8 (3.16%) VBScript
12 6 (2.37%) 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 41 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.46%) Degree
4 15 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
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%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.00%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.67%) QA
3 7 (2.77%) 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 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.74%) 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
1 110 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (29.64%) Oracle
3 27 (10.67%) Citrix
4 19 (7.51%) Databricks
5 16 (6.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.37%) Intapp
6 6 (2.37%) RedGate
6 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.37%) Sybase
7 5 (1.98%) OpenText
8 4 (1.58%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.19%) BMC
9 3 (1.19%) Remedy
9 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.19%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) Google
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.40%) QAD
11 1 (0.40%) Telerik