T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 459 330
Rank change year-on-year -8 -129 -21
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 240 115 227
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.33% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.03% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 90 158
10th Percentile £350 £309 £363
25th Percentile £404 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +6.71% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +213.93%

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 citing coding skills.

6 months to
5 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills 14,662 11,215 11,737
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 26.75% 32.39% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,559 7,376 7,579
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 606 314 283
10th Percentile £21.08 £29.00 £24.62
25th Percentile £42.08 £42.81 £40.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.46%
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 November 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 5 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -46 197 £453 +0.67% 82
London -39 117 £475 +6.74% 37
UK excluding London -31 90 £438 +6.71% 57
Work from Home -32 76 £515 +14.44% 50
North of England -48 36 £400 +2.56% 9
North West -34 25 £403 -4.17% 3
South East -44 19 £475 +26.67% 22
Scotland -15 16 £475 -32.14% 2
Yorkshire -28 11 £400 +6.67% 5
West Midlands -34 9 £413 - 10
Midlands -42 9 £413 -25.00% 16
South West -38 5 £750 +44.23% 6
Wales -14 3 £313 -23.78%
East of England -22 1 £425 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

T-SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SQL99.2%238
2C#35.4%85
3PL/SQL22.1%53
4Python20.4%49
5PowerShell15.4%37
6JavaScript10.4%25
7VBA8.3%20
8VB.NET6.3%15
9Data Analysis Expressions5.4%13
10XPath5.0%12
11VB4.6%11
12Bash3.8%9
12Shell Script3.8%9
14VBScript3.3%8
15Java2.5%6
16TypeScript2.1%5
17Scala0.8%2
18JCL0.4%1
18R0.4%1
18Ruby0.4%1