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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 352 314
Rank change year-on-year -116 -38 -46
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 118 172 296
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 1.65% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 116 182
10th Percentile £363 £341 £364
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +4.71% +0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £660 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
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 11,321 10,443 13,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.62% 33.17% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,520 6,621 9,228
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.17%
75th Percentile £615 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -2.23% -1.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 246 446
10th Percentile £36.03 £21.25 £35.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.19 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -3.97%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 19 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 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 19 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 -114 101 £415 -17.00% 225
London -41 64 £415 -20.95% 58
Work from Home -28 40 £475 +3.26% 172
UK excluding London -84 38 £450 - 243
North of England -50 14 £450 +26.40% 43
North West -24 10 £450 +33.14% 25
South East -41 6 £475 -13.64% 67
Wales -3 5 £600 +272.67% 17
South West -5 5 £550 +15.79% 35
Yorkshire -46 4 £375 - 15
Scotland +10 3 £700 +105.58% 27
East Midlands -26 3 £550 +54.49% 21
Midlands -53 3 £550 +22.22% 28
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 32

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 15 (12.71%) IIS
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.54%) Azure
2 33 (27.97%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (27.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 32 (27.12%) Power Platform
4 21 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.47%) AWS
6 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (6.78%) Serverless
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.93%) GitHub
8 7 (5.93%) SaaS
9 6 (5.08%) AtomSphere
9 6 (5.08%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.08%) Boomi
9 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.08%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.24%) GCP
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.32%) Internet
2 3 (2.54%) DHCP
2 3 (2.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (63.56%) SQL Server
2 29 (24.58%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (24.58%) Power BI
3 23 (19.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (17.80%) Oracle Database
5 18 (15.25%) Data Lake
6 15 (12.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (9.32%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (6.78%) Power Query
8 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.93%) Metadata
9 7 (5.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (5.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (5.08%) Star Schema
11 5 (4.24%) DataStage
11 5 (4.24%) Delta Lake
11 5 (4.24%) Spark SQL
12 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.54%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 12 (10.17%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) JIRA
4 2 (1.69%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) JMeter
5 1 (0.85%) NUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.85%) Pylint
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 32 (27.12%) Finance
2 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.25%) Banking
4 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.24%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.69%) Law
8 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (56.78%) Developer
2 29 (24.58%) C# Developer
3 26 (22.03%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.47%) Architect
6 9 (7.63%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.78%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.93%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.93%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (5.08%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.08%) WCF Developer
9 6 (5.08%) WPF Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.24%) DBA
10 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.90%) .NET
2 27 (22.88%) .NET Framework
3 18 (15.25%) PySpark
4 14 (11.86%) WPF
5 12 (10.17%) WinForms
6 9 (7.63%) SOAP
6 9 (7.63%) WCF
7 8 (6.78%) JSON
7 8 (6.78%) REST
8 7 (5.93%) React
8 7 (5.93%) XML
9 6 (5.08%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (4.24%) Kafka
10 5 (4.24%) Middleware
11 4 (3.39%) ADO
12 3 (2.54%) ARM Templates
12 3 (2.54%) Pandas
12 3 (2.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.54%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.85%) Clustering
5 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.12%) Windows
2 17 (14.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 49 (41.53%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (34.75%) DevOps
4 39 (33.05%) ETL
5 37 (31.36%) Analytics
6 36 (30.51%) Agile
7 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (27.12%) Data Modelling
9 22 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (18.64%) Migration
10 21 (17.80%) Data Analysis
11 20 (16.95%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (14.41%) Data Engineering
13 16 (13.56%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (11.86%) Change Management
14 14 (11.86%) Data Governance
15 13 (11.02%) Data Architecture
15 13 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (10.17%) Translating Business Requirements
16 12 (10.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 109 (92.37%) SQL
2 47 (39.83%) C#
3 40 (33.90%) PL/SQL
4 35 (29.66%) Python
5 12 (10.17%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.32%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.47%) VBA
8 9 (7.63%) VB
9 7 (5.93%) Java
10 6 (5.08%) Groovy
11 5 (4.24%) Bicep
12 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.54%) X++
13 1 (0.85%) Bash
13 1 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (16.95%) Degree
2 16 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) HP APS
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.03%) QA
2 21 (17.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 52 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 39 (33.05%) Oracle
3 29 (24.58%) Databricks
4 22 (18.64%) Citrix
5 4 (3.39%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.39%) SAP
5 4 (3.39%) VMware
6 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.54%) Google
7 2 (1.69%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.69%) Informatica
7 2 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.85%) HP
8 1 (0.85%) Okta
8 1 (0.85%) Sage
8 1 (0.85%) Sybase
8 1 (0.85%) Workday