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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 410 341
Rank change year-on-year -13 -69 -52
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 210 124 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.42% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.24% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 89 176
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +1.88%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £578
90th Percentile £638 £725 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -21.43% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £31.50 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £31.54 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.78%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £18.76
90th Percentile - £34.43 £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £32.96 £14.28
% change year-on-year -18.08% +130.85% -59.21%

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 12,828 10,002 12,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.88% 34.07% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,540 6,762 9,133
10th Percentile £355 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £488
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.15% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 241 476
10th Percentile £42.28 £22.50 £30.94
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -29 197 £415 -17.00% 91
London -31 108 £415 -20.95% 31
UK excluding London -41 86 £425 +3.03% 70
Work from Home -16 51 £550 +2.33% 61
South East -24 39 £417 -20.53% 18
North of England -55 28 £475 +26.67% 23
North West -21 20 £475 +33.43% 18
Yorkshire -50 8 £408 +8.67% 5
South West -24 7 £475 -9.52% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Scotland +2 2 £465 - 6
West Midlands -62 2 £398 -6.47% 2
Midlands -81 2 £398 -6.47% 13
Wales -10 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 23 (10.95%) IIS
2 6 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) Mule
6 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (20.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.43%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.48%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.57%) Azure
2 51 (24.29%) Power Platform
3 46 (21.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.14%) AWS
7 11 (5.24%) Power Automate
8 7 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (3.33%) GitHub
8 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.33%) Serverless
9 6 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.86%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.90%) Azure Storage
10 4 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.43%) AtomSphere
11 3 (1.43%) Boomi
11 3 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.71%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) DHCP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
2 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) LAN
3 1 (0.48%) SMTP
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (65.71%) SQL Server
2 47 (22.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 46 (21.90%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (20.00%) Power BI
5 28 (13.33%) Oracle Database
6 25 (11.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (11.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 23 (10.95%) Data Lake
9 17 (8.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (4.29%) Metadata
12 8 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.81%) Power Query
12 8 (3.81%) Spark SQL
12 8 (3.81%) Star Schema
13 7 (3.33%) Delta Lake
14 6 (2.86%) MySQL
15 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (2.38%) OLAP
16 4 (1.90%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 18 (8.57%) Git
2 15 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.86%) JIRA
5 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.43%) Mocha
5 3 (1.43%) MSTest
5 3 (1.43%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.95%) GitLab
6 2 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.48%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.48%) Selenium
7 1 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 61 (29.05%) Finance
2 53 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.33%) Banking
5 14 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.38%) Legal
8 4 (1.90%) Advertising
8 4 (1.90%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.95%) Local Government
9 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (42.38%) Developer
2 39 (18.57%) C# Developer
3 34 (16.19%) Data Engineer
4 33 (15.71%) Consultant
5 29 (13.81%) Implementation Consultant
6 20 (9.52%) SQL Developer
7 15 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 15 (7.14%) DBA
7 15 (7.14%) Senior
8 13 (6.19%) Payroll Consultant
9 12 (5.71%) SQL DBA
10 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Architect
11 10 (4.76%) Database Developer
12 9 (4.29%) Analyst
13 8 (3.81%) Applications Developer
13 8 (3.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 8 (3.81%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (3.81%) Data Architect
13 8 (3.81%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (28.10%) .NET
2 42 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 35 (16.67%) XML
4 19 (9.05%) PySpark
5 15 (7.14%) WinForms
6 14 (6.67%) JSON
6 14 (6.67%) WPF
7 13 (6.19%) React
7 13 (6.19%) REST
8 11 (5.24%) CSS
9 9 (4.29%) HTML
10 8 (3.81%) SOAP
11 7 (3.33%) RESTful
11 7 (3.33%) YAML
12 6 (2.86%) AngularJS
12 6 (2.86%) SPFx
13 4 (1.90%) ASP.NET
13 4 (1.90%) Entity Framework
13 4 (1.90%) WCF
14 3 (1.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.71%) Replication
1 12 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (2.86%) Clustering
2 6 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (2.86%) NHS
2 6 (2.86%) Wiki
3 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.43%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.48%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.48%) Equities
6 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.95%) Windows
2 23 (10.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.90%) Linux
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 64 (30.48%) ETL
3 50 (23.81%) Agile
3 50 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 49 (23.33%) Analytics
5 47 (22.38%) DevOps
6 43 (20.48%) Data Modelling
7 42 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (19.52%) Data Analysis
9 38 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (16.19%) Migration
10 34 (16.19%) Performance Tuning
11 32 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (12.38%) Change Management
12 26 (12.38%) Unit Testing
13 25 (11.90%) Data Engineering
14 24 (11.43%) Dimensional Modelling
15 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (10.48%) AI
17 18 (8.57%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 201 (95.71%) SQL
2 67 (31.90%) C#
3 62 (29.52%) PL/SQL
4 50 (23.81%) Python
5 24 (11.43%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (9.05%) JavaScript
8 13 (6.19%) VBA
9 12 (5.71%) VB
10 8 (3.81%) Bicep
11 7 (3.33%) Bash
11 7 (3.33%) Java
12 5 (2.38%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.90%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) C
14 1 (0.48%) C++
14 1 (0.48%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.48%) Scala
14 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (10.95%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.10%) Degree
3 16 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.38%) QA
2 39 (18.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS
4 1 (0.48%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (3.81%) Terraform
2 3 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.48%) Control-M
4 1 (0.48%) Grafana
4 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 83 (39.52%) Microsoft
2 56 (26.67%) Oracle
3 34 (16.19%) Citrix
4 30 (14.29%) Databricks
5 8 (3.81%) VMware
6 4 (1.90%) Sybase
7 3 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.43%) Remedy
7 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.95%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.95%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.95%) BMC
8 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe
9 1 (0.48%) Google
9 1 (0.48%) Sage
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.48%) SAP
9 1 (0.48%) Telerik
9 1 (0.48%) Teradata