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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 414 348
Rank change year-on-year +14 -66 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 239 107 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.37% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 1.09% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 79 181
10th Percentile £350 £305 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £655 £695 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +10.39% -23.00% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -90.09%

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 13,141 9,774 12,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.91% 34.12% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 6,655 9,153
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.47% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 215 505
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £32.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.33 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.37 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.57% +1.40% -

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -9 216 £450 -5.26% 63
London -17 113 £453 -9.50% 18
UK excluding London -21 103 £425 +10.39% 52
Work from Home -26 61 £525 - 33
South East -8 51 £405 -7.43% 22
North of England -57 28 £500 +33.33% 13
North West -25 19 £506 +23.48% 5
Yorkshire -55 9 £408 +8.67% 6
South West -18 7 £475 -9.52% 5
Scotland -3 4 £470 - 2
Midlands -66 4 £398 -6.47% 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
West Midlands -62 3 £398 -6.47% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Wales -17 2 £313 +71.23% 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 23 (9.62%) IIS
2 12 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.26%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) Appian
4 3 (1.26%) Camunda
4 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) Mule
6 1 (0.42%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 46 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.42%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.26%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.26%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.42%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.42%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (37.24%) Azure
2 72 (30.13%) Power Platform
3 48 (20.08%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (16.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.95%) AWS
7 13 (5.44%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.77%) Serverless
10 8 (3.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.35%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.93%) GitHub
12 6 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 4 (1.67%) Entra ID
15 3 (1.26%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) Internet
2 2 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.42%) LAN
3 1 (0.42%) SMTP
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (63.60%) SQL Server
2 60 (25.10%) Power BI
3 55 (23.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 44 (18.41%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (12.97%) Oracle Database
5 31 (12.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 27 (11.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 22 (9.21%) Data Lake
8 19 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.18%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.77%) Spark SQL
11 8 (3.35%) Delta Lake
11 8 (3.35%) Metadata
12 7 (2.93%) Power Query
13 6 (2.51%) DataStage
13 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (2.51%) MySQL
13 6 (2.51%) Tableau
14 5 (2.09%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (7.53%) Git
2 12 (5.02%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.51%) JIRA
6 5 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.09%) Mocha
6 5 (2.09%) MSTest
6 5 (2.09%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.84%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.84%) Postman
8 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.42%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.42%) ERwin
8 1 (0.42%) GitLab
8 1 (0.42%) Moq
8 1 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.42%) webpack
General
1 63 (26.36%) Finance
2 55 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.23%) Banking
4 33 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.09%) Legal
9 4 (1.67%) Advertising
9 4 (1.67%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Billing
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (35.98%) Developer
2 43 (17.99%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.64%) Consultant
4 33 (13.81%) C# Developer
5 29 (12.13%) Implementation Consultant
6 27 (11.30%) SQL Developer
7 22 (9.21%) Microsoft Engineer
8 20 (8.37%) Senior
9 17 (7.11%) DBA
10 15 (6.28%) SQL DBA
11 14 (5.86%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.44%) Payroll Consultant
13 10 (4.18%) Analyst
13 10 (4.18%) Architect
14 9 (3.77%) Applications Developer
14 9 (3.77%) C# Application Developer
14 9 (3.77%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (3.35%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (3.35%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.52%) .NET
2 40 (16.74%) .NET Framework
3 36 (15.06%) XML
4 18 (7.53%) PySpark
5 15 (6.28%) CSS
6 14 (5.86%) HTML
6 14 (5.86%) WinForms
7 13 (5.44%) JSON
7 13 (5.44%) REST
8 12 (5.02%) React
8 12 (5.02%) WPF
9 10 (4.18%) RESTful
10 8 (3.35%) SPFx
11 6 (2.51%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.51%) YAML
12 5 (2.09%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.09%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.09%) Kafka
12 5 (2.09%) SOAP
12 5 (2.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.86%) Replication
3 10 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.35%) Clustering
5 7 (2.93%) NHS
6 6 (2.51%) Wiki
7 5 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.26%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.84%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.84%) Equities
9 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.42%) Derivative
10 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.42%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.67%) Windows
2 22 (9.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.93%) Linux
4 4 (1.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) HPUX
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (37.66%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (35.98%) ETL
3 53 (22.18%) Data Modelling
4 52 (21.76%) Analytics
5 47 (19.67%) DevOps
6 45 (18.83%) Agile
6 45 (18.83%) CI/CD
6 45 (18.83%) Disaster Recovery
7 42 (17.57%) Data Analysis
7 42 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
8 38 (15.90%) Migration
9 37 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.23%) Data Pipeline
11 27 (11.30%) AI
11 27 (11.30%) Data Engineering
12 25 (10.46%) Change Management
12 25 (10.46%) Unit Testing
13 24 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.04%) Workflow
14 22 (9.21%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 234 (97.91%) SQL
2 64 (26.78%) C#
2 64 (26.78%) PL/SQL
3 57 (23.85%) Python
4 27 (11.30%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.86%) VBA
7 13 (5.44%) VB
8 6 (2.51%) Bash
8 6 (2.51%) Bicep
9 5 (2.09%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) Java
10 4 (1.67%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.26%) XPath
12 1 (0.42%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) R
12 1 (0.42%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (10.04%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.09%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.67%) Data Quality
2 43 (17.99%) QA
3 3 (1.26%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS
5 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.26%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.77%) Terraform
2 3 (1.26%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.42%) Control-M
4 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.42%) Grafana
4 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 94 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 59 (24.69%) Oracle
3 33 (13.81%) Citrix
4 31 (12.97%) Databricks
5 6 (2.51%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.51%) VMware
6 4 (1.67%) Remedy
6 4 (1.67%) Sybase
7 3 (1.26%) BMC
7 3 (1.26%) OpenText
7 3 (1.26%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.84%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.84%) Google
8 2 (0.84%) Informatica
8 2 (0.84%) Intapp
8 2 (0.84%) NetCracker
8 2 (0.84%) RedGate
8 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.42%) Adobe
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry