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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 364 313
Rank change year-on-year -102 -51 -45
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 122 173 293
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.64% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 117 181
10th Percentile £363 £342 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £630 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +1.39% -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 11,592 10,536 12,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.67% 33.23% 30.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,707 6,692 9,171
10th Percentile £350 £355 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 248 466
10th Percentile £37.31 £21.25 £35.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.56 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £75.30 £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 22 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 22 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 -103 105 £415 -18.02% 216
London -39 67 £415 -20.95% 60
Work from Home -31 40 £475 +3.26% 157
UK excluding London -104 39 £456 +1.39% 233
North of England -65 14 £450 +26.40% 42
North West -27 10 £450 +33.14% 25
South East -55 7 £525 -4.55% 64
Wales -3 5 £600 +272.67% 16
South West -9 5 £550 +15.79% 32
Yorkshire -53 4 £375 - 14
Scotland +3 3 £700 +105.58% 26
East Midlands -24 3 £550 +54.49% 20
Midlands -62 3 £550 +22.22% 30
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 28

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 17 (13.93%) IIS
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.46%) Azure
2 34 (27.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (27.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 32 (26.23%) Power Platform
5 23 (18.85%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.38%) AWS
6 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (7.38%) Serverless
7 8 (6.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.74%) GitHub
8 7 (5.74%) SaaS
9 6 (4.92%) AtomSphere
9 6 (4.92%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.92%) Boomi
9 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.92%) Power Automate
10 5 (4.10%) GCP
11 4 (3.28%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Internet
2 3 (2.46%) DHCP
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.82%) LAN
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (63.93%) SQL Server
2 30 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (23.77%) Power BI
4 23 (18.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (18.03%) Oracle Database
6 19 (15.57%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (9.02%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (6.56%) Power Query
10 7 (5.74%) Metadata
10 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (4.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.92%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.10%) DataStage
12 5 (4.10%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.10%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.46%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Visual Studio
2 13 (10.66%) Git
3 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.64%) Postman
4 2 (1.64%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.82%) Appium
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.82%) NUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.82%) Poetry
5 1 (0.82%) Pylint
5 1 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (26.23%) Finance
2 28 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Banking
4 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (57.38%) Developer
2 31 (25.41%) C# Developer
3 28 (22.95%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.66%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.20%) Architect
6 9 (7.38%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.74%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.92%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (4.92%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (4.92%) WCF Developer
9 6 (4.92%) WPF Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.10%) Azure Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (35.25%) .NET
2 30 (24.59%) .NET Framework
3 18 (14.75%) PySpark
4 15 (12.30%) WPF
5 13 (10.66%) WinForms
6 9 (7.38%) JSON
6 9 (7.38%) SOAP
6 9 (7.38%) WCF
7 8 (6.56%) React
7 8 (6.56%) REST
8 7 (5.74%) XML
9 6 (4.92%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.92%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (4.10%) Kafka
10 5 (4.10%) Middleware
11 4 (3.28%) ADO
12 3 (2.46%) CSS
12 3 (2.46%) Pandas
12 3 (2.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.46%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (0.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (27.87%) Windows
2 18 (14.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (42.62%) CI/CD
2 51 (41.80%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (35.25%) DevOps
4 40 (32.79%) ETL
5 39 (31.97%) Analytics
6 36 (29.51%) Agile
7 33 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (26.23%) Data Modelling
9 25 (20.49%) Disaster Recovery
10 23 (18.85%) Data Analysis
10 23 (18.85%) Migration
11 21 (17.21%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (13.93%) Data Engineering
12 17 (13.93%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (12.30%) Change Management
14 14 (11.48%) Data Governance
14 14 (11.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (11.48%) Unit Testing
15 13 (10.66%) Data Architecture
16 12 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 113 (92.62%) SQL
2 50 (40.98%) C#
3 42 (34.43%) PL/SQL
4 35 (28.69%) Python
5 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
6 11 (9.02%) VBA
7 10 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.20%) VB
8 7 (5.74%) Java
9 6 (4.92%) Groovy
10 5 (4.10%) Bicep
11 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.46%) X++
13 2 (1.64%) Scala
14 1 (0.82%) Bash
14 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Degree
2 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) Azure Certification
3 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.82%) HP APS
7 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) QA
2 21 (17.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) MiFID
4 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Terraform
2 2 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (0.82%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (43.44%) Microsoft
2 41 (33.61%) Oracle
3 29 (23.77%) Databricks
4 24 (19.67%) Citrix
5 4 (3.28%) Alteryx
5 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.28%) SAP
5 4 (3.28%) VMware
6 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.46%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.64%) Informatica
7 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.82%) HP
8 1 (0.82%) Okta
8 1 (0.82%) Sage
8 1 (0.82%) Sybase
8 1 (0.82%) Workday