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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 358 307
Rank change year-on-year -95 -51 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 125 179 298
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.71% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 123 184
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £404 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £668 £625 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £9.19
25th Percentile - £45.63 £13.13
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%
75th Percentile - - £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £16.11
% change year-on-year - +303.48% -53.97%

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 11,427 10,453 12,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.80% 32.83% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,581 6,649 9,045
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £618 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 242 415
10th Percentile £36.40 £21.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £37.13 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
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 15 January 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 16 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 15 January 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 -103 108 £415 -17.00% 129
London -38 70 £415 -20.95% 58
Work from Home -23 42 £463 +0.54% 144
UK excluding London -104 38 £450 - 137
North of England -47 14 £450 +23.12% 22
North West -22 10 £450 +33.14% 18
Wales -1 5 £600 +272.67% 11
South West -16 5 £550 +15.79% 19
South East -42 5 £475 -9.52% 39
Yorkshire -49 4 £375 - 4
Midlands -49 4 £550 +22.22% 15
Scotland +3 3 £700 +80.65% 23
East Midlands -29 3 £550 +54.49% 9
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
West Midlands -42 1 - - 6
East of England - 1 - - 13

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 16 (12.80%) IIS
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.40%) Azure
2 34 (27.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (26.40%) Power Platform
4 32 (25.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (16.80%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.00%) AWS
7 9 (7.20%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (7.20%) Serverless
8 8 (6.40%) GitHub
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.60%) SaaS
10 6 (4.80%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.80%) Boomi
10 6 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.80%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.00%) GCP
12 4 (3.20%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) Internet
2 3 (2.40%) DHCP
2 3 (2.40%) DNS
2 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.80%) HTTP
3 1 (0.80%) LAN
3 1 (0.80%) VPN
3 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (64.80%) SQL Server
2 30 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (24.00%) Power BI
3 24 (19.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (17.60%) Oracle Database
5 19 (15.20%) Data Lake
6 16 (12.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
9 8 (6.40%) Metadata
9 8 (6.40%) Power Query
9 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.80%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.00%) DataStage
12 5 (4.00%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.00%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.40%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Git
1 13 (10.40%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.60%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) Appium
5 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.80%) GitLab
5 1 (0.80%) JIRA
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) NUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Poetry
5 1 (0.80%) Postman
5 1 (0.80%) Pylint
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 34 (27.20%) Finance
2 30 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.40%) Banking
4 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Law
8 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Back Office
9 1 (0.80%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.80%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.80%) Front Office
9 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (58.40%) Developer
2 30 (24.00%) C# Developer
3 25 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.20%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.00%) Architect
5 10 (8.00%) Integration Developer
6 8 (6.40%) Data Architect
6 8 (6.40%) SQL Developer
7 7 (5.60%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.60%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (5.60%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (5.60%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.60%) WPF Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.80%) Senior
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (36.00%) .NET
2 29 (23.20%) .NET Framework
3 17 (13.60%) PySpark
4 15 (12.00%) WPF
5 13 (10.40%) WinForms
6 10 (8.00%) WCF
6 10 (8.00%) XML
7 9 (7.20%) JSON
7 9 (7.20%) REST
7 9 (7.20%) SOAP
8 8 (6.40%) React
9 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.80%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.80%) Kafka
10 6 (4.80%) Web Services
11 5 (4.00%) Middleware
12 4 (3.20%) ADO
13 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET
13 3 (2.40%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.20%) NHS
2 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.40%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.60%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.60%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.80%) Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.80%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.80%) IoT
5 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.40%) Windows
2 17 (13.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (40.80%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (39.20%) CI/CD
3 41 (32.80%) DevOps
4 40 (32.00%) ETL
5 38 (30.40%) Agile
5 38 (30.40%) Analytics
6 33 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (25.60%) Data Modelling
8 23 (18.40%) Data Analysis
8 23 (18.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (17.60%) Migration
10 20 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (13.60%) Data Engineering
12 16 (12.80%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (12.00%) Data Governance
14 14 (11.20%) Change Management
15 13 (10.40%) Data Architecture
15 13 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (9.60%) Translating Business Requirements
16 12 (9.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 116 (92.80%) SQL
2 52 (41.60%) C#
3 41 (32.80%) PL/SQL
4 35 (28.00%) Python
5 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.60%) PowerShell
6 12 (9.60%) VBA
7 10 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.00%) VB
8 7 (5.60%) Java
9 6 (4.80%) Groovy
10 5 (4.00%) Bicep
11 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.40%) X++
12 1 (0.80%) Bash
12 1 (0.80%) Scala
12 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Degree
2 15 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.80%) HP APS
8 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.80%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.80%) QA
2 22 (17.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) MiFID
3 2 (1.60%) WCAG
4 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.80%) EMIR
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) HL7
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.60%) Docker
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.80%) Control-M
3 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (32.00%) Oracle
3 29 (23.20%) Databricks
4 23 (18.40%) Citrix
5 5 (4.00%) VMware
6 4 (3.20%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.20%) SAP
7 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.40%) Google
8 2 (1.60%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.60%) Informatica
8 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.80%) CQG
9 1 (0.80%) EMC
9 1 (0.80%) HP
9 1 (0.80%) iManage
9 1 (0.80%) Sage
9 1 (0.80%) Sybase
9 1 (0.80%) TOWER Software