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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 447 326
Rank change year-on-year +24 -121 -40
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 268 112 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.34% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.04% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 94 204
10th Percentile £366 £329 £363
25th Percentile £404 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -10.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £617 £603
90th Percentile £696 £684 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £435
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 13,990 10,743 12,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 32.84% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,106 7,166 8,475
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -4.72% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.93% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 297 383
10th Percentile £28.50 £28.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.23 £79.25 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.42% -4.23% +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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +9 230 £463 -2.63% 48
UK excluding London +6 124 £425 - 33
London -29 117 £492 -0.35% 18
Work from Home -21 75 £513 -6.82% 23
North of England -36 48 £403 -10.50% 14
South East -32 40 £427 +13.96% 8
North West -24 34 £403 -10.50% 12
Yorkshire -27 14 £400 +6.67% 2
Scotland -9 12 £470 +17.50% 1
Midlands -51 10 £400 -5.88% 5
West Midlands -53 9 £400 -5.88% 4
South West -39 7 £475 -8.65% 3
Wales -13 4 £313 +38.27%
East of England -23 2 £425 - 3
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 (11.19%) IIS
2 23 (8.58%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) Confluence
3 6 (2.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.87%) Appian
4 5 (1.87%) Camunda
5 2 (0.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) MTS
6 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 53 (19.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.61%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.61%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.87%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (33.96%) Azure
2 77 (28.73%) Power Platform
3 39 (14.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 22 (8.21%) AWS
7 15 (5.60%) Power Automate
8 13 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.10%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.61%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.87%) Serverless
14 4 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.49%) GCP
14 4 (1.49%) GitHub
15 3 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.73%) Internet
2 7 (2.61%) SSL
3 5 (1.87%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.75%) DHCP
4 2 (0.75%) DNS
4 2 (0.75%) Firewall
4 2 (0.75%) LAN
4 2 (0.75%) PABX
4 2 (0.75%) VLAN
4 2 (0.75%) VoIP
4 2 (0.75%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (68.28%) SQL Server
2 66 (24.63%) Power BI
3 65 (24.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 49 (18.28%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (12.69%) Oracle Database
6 29 (10.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (4.85%) MySQL
8 13 (4.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (4.10%) MS Access
10 10 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (3.36%) OLAP
11 9 (3.36%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.99%) Data Lake
12 8 (2.99%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.99%) Tableau
13 6 (2.24%) Metadata
13 6 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.24%) Spark SQL
14 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.58%) Git
2 12 (4.48%) Visual Studio
3 11 (4.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.99%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.61%) tSQLt
6 5 (1.87%) JIRA
7 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.12%) Mocha
7 3 (1.12%) MSTest
8 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.75%) GitLab
9 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.37%) Moq
9 1 (0.37%) Postman
9 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.37%) Toad
9 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 68 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.63%) Finance
3 43 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.18%) Banking
5 16 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.24%) Legal
8 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.87%) Front Office
8 5 (1.87%) Law
9 4 (1.49%) Advertising
9 4 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.75%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.75%) Retail
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (40.30%) Developer
2 34 (12.69%) Consultant
3 33 (12.31%) Data Engineer
3 33 (12.31%) SQL Developer
4 31 (11.57%) C# Developer
5 26 (9.70%) DBA
6 25 (9.33%) .NET Developer
6 25 (9.33%) Lead
7 24 (8.96%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (8.96%) Senior
8 23 (8.58%) SQL DBA
9 16 (5.97%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (4.85%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.48%) Analyst
12 11 (4.10%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.10%) SQL Server DBA
13 10 (3.73%) C# .NET Developer
13 10 (3.73%) Payroll Consultant
14 9 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (32.84%) .NET
2 41 (15.30%) XML
3 39 (14.55%) .NET Framework
4 24 (8.96%) ASP.NET
5 21 (7.84%) WinForms
6 18 (6.72%) HTML
7 15 (5.60%) JSON
8 14 (5.22%) REST
8 14 (5.22%) XSLT
9 12 (4.48%) PySpark
9 12 (4.48%) React
10 11 (4.10%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.10%) CSS
10 11 (4.10%) WPF
11 9 (3.36%) SOAP
11 9 (3.36%) WCF
11 9 (3.36%) Web Services
12 8 (2.99%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.99%) SPFx
13 7 (2.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.34%) Replication
2 15 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.48%) Clustering
4 9 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.99%) NHS
6 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.24%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.12%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.75%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.75%) Derivative
10 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.75%) Equities
10 2 (0.75%) Handset
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.75%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.39%) Windows
2 28 (10.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.36%) Linux
4 6 (2.24%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (31.34%) ETL
2 78 (29.10%) Business Intelligence
3 68 (25.37%) DevOps
4 57 (21.27%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (19.03%) Data Modelling
6 49 (18.28%) CI/CD
7 48 (17.91%) Agile
7 48 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (16.04%) Data Analysis
8 43 (16.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (13.43%) Migration
10 35 (13.06%) AI
10 35 (13.06%) Analytics
11 33 (12.31%) Workflow
12 26 (9.70%) Data Integration
13 25 (9.33%) Change Management
13 25 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.84%) Data Engineering
16 19 (7.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 264 (98.51%) SQL
2 89 (33.21%) C#
3 69 (25.75%) PL/SQL
4 49 (18.28%) Python
5 30 (11.19%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.33%) PowerShell
7 21 (7.84%) VBA
8 16 (5.97%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.48%) XPath
10 11 (4.10%) VB
11 8 (2.99%) VBScript
12 7 (2.61%) Java
13 3 (1.12%) Bash
13 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.75%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.96%) Degree
4 11 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.87%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CISA
8 1 (0.37%) CISSP
8 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 30 (11.19%) QA
3 6 (2.24%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.61%) SCOM
2 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (39.55%) Microsoft
2 69 (25.75%) Oracle
3 29 (10.82%) Citrix
4 18 (6.72%) Databricks
5 12 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.61%) Sybase
7 6 (2.24%) Intapp
8 5 (1.87%) OpenText
8 5 (1.87%) RedGate
8 5 (1.87%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.49%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.12%) BMC
10 3 (1.12%) Google
10 3 (1.12%) Remedy
10 3 (1.12%) SYSPRO
11 2 (0.75%) NetCracker
12 1 (0.37%) Foundry
12 1 (0.37%) MarketAxess
12 1 (0.37%) Palantir
12 1 (0.37%) Tradeweb