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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 442 335
Rank change year-on-year +44 -107 -42
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 279 111 261
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.03% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 88 198
10th Percentile £356 £340 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £673 £699 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +5.28% -7.62% -8.84%
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% -82.56%
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% -87.36%

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 14,214 10,796 13,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.01% 33.36% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,243 7,282 9,344
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £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 544 263 528
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.59 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 10 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 10 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 +29 246 £453 -9.40% 81
London -6 130 £491 -1.80% 24
UK excluding London -35 119 £421 +5.28% 69
Work from Home -10 76 £525 -11.39% 50
South East -9 51 £405 +15.71% 22
North of England -54 40 £405 +8.00% 24
North West -23 27 £403 +1.96% 14
Yorkshire -40 13 £450 +20.00% 8
Scotland -10 8 £475 +18.75% 3
South West -26 7 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -59 5 £400 -5.88% 11
West Midlands -65 4 £400 -5.88% 9
East of England - 4 £211 - 4
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 30 (10.75%) IIS
2 18 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.87%) Confluence
4 6 (2.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.79%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) Camunda
6 3 (1.08%) Apache
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.72%) 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 52 (18.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.15%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.15%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.08%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.72%) 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 96 (34.41%) Azure
2 82 (29.39%) Power Platform
3 37 (13.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.04%) AWS
6 26 (9.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.30%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.58%) Serverless
9 9 (3.23%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.51%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.51%) GitHub
11 6 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.94%) Internet
2 5 (1.79%) SSL
3 4 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (68.10%) SQL Server
2 72 (25.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (24.73%) Power BI
4 54 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (14.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (11.83%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.38%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.66%) MySQL
10 13 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.23%) MS Access
11 9 (3.23%) OLAP
12 7 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 7 (2.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.51%) Tableau
13 6 (2.15%) Metadata
13 6 (2.15%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.15%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (8.60%) Git
2 13 (4.66%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 11 (3.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.51%) JIRA
5 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.15%) Mocha
5 6 (2.15%) MSTest
5 6 (2.15%) tSQLt
6 5 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 2 (0.72%) 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 74 (26.52%) Finance
2 68 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.41%) Banking
4 40 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.66%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.79%) Legal
7 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Advertising
9 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.08%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Billing
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) 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
1 112 (40.14%) Developer
2 41 (14.70%) SQL Developer
3 40 (14.34%) Data Engineer
4 35 (12.54%) C# Developer
4 35 (12.54%) Consultant
5 28 (10.04%) DBA
5 28 (10.04%) Implementation Consultant
6 26 (9.32%) Senior
7 25 (8.96%) SQL DBA
8 23 (8.24%) .NET Developer
9 22 (7.89%) Microsoft Engineer
10 19 (6.81%) Lead
11 13 (4.66%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.30%) Analyst
13 11 (3.94%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.23%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (3.23%) Database Developer
14 9 (3.23%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (30.82%) .NET
2 47 (16.85%) XML
3 42 (15.05%) .NET Framework
4 20 (7.17%) HTML
4 20 (7.17%) WinForms
5 19 (6.81%) ASP.NET
6 17 (6.09%) JSON
6 17 (6.09%) REST
7 16 (5.73%) CSS
8 14 (5.02%) PySpark
9 13 (4.66%) React
9 13 (4.66%) XSLT
10 12 (4.30%) WPF
11 11 (3.94%) RESTful
12 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.87%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (2.87%) SOAP
13 8 (2.87%) SPFx
14 7 (2.51%) WCF
14 7 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.53%) Replication
2 16 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.02%) Clustering
4 11 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.23%) NHS
6 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.15%) Wiki
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Equities
8 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 59 (21.15%) Windows
2 27 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.23%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) 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 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 93 (33.33%) ETL
2 63 (22.58%) DevOps
3 60 (21.51%) Performance Tuning
4 59 (21.15%) Agile
5 51 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.92%) CI/CD
6 50 (17.92%) Data Modelling
7 48 (17.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (15.05%) Analytics
8 42 (15.05%) Data Analysis
8 42 (15.05%) Migration
9 34 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (11.83%) AI
10 33 (11.83%) Workflow
11 31 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (9.32%) Unit Testing
13 24 (8.60%) Change Management
13 24 (8.60%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.24%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 274 (98.21%) SQL
2 91 (32.62%) C#
3 73 (26.16%) PL/SQL
4 52 (18.64%) Python
5 31 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.39%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.81%) VBA
8 18 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 14 (5.02%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.30%) VB
11 11 (3.94%) XPath
12 7 (2.51%) Java
12 7 (2.51%) VBScript
13 6 (2.15%) Bash
13 6 (2.15%) Bicep
14 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.72%) Scala
16 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.36%) Groovy
16 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (11.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.04%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.24%) Degree
4 8 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.51%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.41%) Data Quality
2 42 (15.05%) QA
3 6 (2.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.87%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.15%) Terraform
2 5 (1.79%) SCOM
3 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.08%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.72%) 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 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 68 (24.37%) Oracle
3 33 (11.83%) Citrix
4 18 (6.45%) Databricks
5 10 (3.58%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.79%) Intapp
6 5 (1.79%) OpenText
6 5 (1.79%) Sybase
6 5 (1.79%) VMware
7 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.43%) RedGate
7 4 (1.43%) Remedy
7 4 (1.43%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.08%) BMC
8 3 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (1.08%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata