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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 410 346
Rank change year-on-year +5 -64 -63
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 244 107 254
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.84% 1.07% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 83 189
10th Percentile £358 £316 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £668 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £385 £463
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.76% -2.63%
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% -86.37%
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% -90.09%

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 13,289 9,978 13,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.84% 34.14% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,684 6,755 9,244
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £715 £760 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.68% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 232 526
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.34 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -8.84% -0.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.93 £85.00 £76.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +7 223 £453 -4.74% 80
London -21 116 £475 -5.00% 28
UK excluding London -24 106 £421 +9.38% 62
Work from Home -26 64 £523 -5.00% 42
South East -5 53 £411 -6.03% 23
North of England -59 30 £405 +8.00% 15
North West -32 21 £405 +26.56% 11
Yorkshire -52 9 £408 +8.67% 1
South West -21 7 £475 -8.65% 9
Scotland -6 4 £470 - 4
Midlands -53 4 £398 -3.64% 4
East of England - 4 £211 - 6
West Midlands -58 3 £398 -6.47% 2
Wales -17 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

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 21 (8.61%) IIS
2 12 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.64%) Confluence
3 4 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.23%) Apache
4 3 (1.23%) Appian
4 3 (1.23%) Camunda
4 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.23%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.23%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (36.07%) Azure
2 72 (29.51%) Power Platform
3 44 (18.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (14.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.02%) AWS
7 12 (4.92%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.51%) Serverless
9 10 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.28%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.87%) GitHub
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.64%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.51%) Internet
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) SMTP
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (65.16%) SQL Server
2 61 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 60 (24.59%) Power BI
4 44 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (14.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (12.30%) Oracle Database
7 29 (11.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (8.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (8.61%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (4.10%) Spark SQL
10 8 (3.28%) Delta Lake
11 7 (2.87%) Power Query
11 7 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.46%) DataStage
12 6 (2.46%) Metadata
12 6 (2.46%) MySQL
12 6 (2.46%) Tableau
13 5 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.05%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (6.56%) Git
2 11 (4.51%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.46%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.46%) JIRA
5 6 (2.46%) Mocha
5 6 (2.46%) MSTest
5 6 (2.46%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.82%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.41%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.41%) Moq
7 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 66 (27.05%) Finance
2 55 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.93%) Banking
4 32 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.51%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.05%) Legal
8 4 (1.64%) Advertising
9 3 (1.23%) Law
9 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (36.48%) Developer
2 41 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.34%) Consultant
4 32 (13.11%) SQL Developer
5 31 (12.70%) C# Developer
6 29 (11.89%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.84%) Microsoft Engineer
8 20 (8.20%) Senior
9 19 (7.79%) DBA
10 17 (6.97%) SQL DBA
11 15 (6.15%) .NET Developer
12 13 (5.33%) Payroll Consultant
13 10 (4.10%) Analyst
13 10 (4.10%) Architect
14 9 (3.69%) Database Developer
14 9 (3.69%) Lead
15 8 (3.28%) Applications Developer
15 8 (3.28%) C# Application Developer
15 8 (3.28%) Data Architect
15 8 (3.28%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.82%) .NET
2 38 (15.57%) .NET Framework
3 37 (15.16%) XML
4 16 (6.56%) CSS
4 16 (6.56%) PySpark
5 15 (6.15%) HTML
6 14 (5.74%) REST
7 13 (5.33%) JSON
8 12 (4.92%) WinForms
9 11 (4.51%) React
9 11 (4.51%) RESTful
9 11 (4.51%) WPF
10 8 (3.28%) SPFx
11 7 (2.87%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.87%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.05%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.05%) Kafka
12 5 (2.05%) SOAP
12 5 (2.05%) XSLT
12 5 (2.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.74%) Replication
1 14 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.10%) Clustering
4 7 (2.87%) NHS
5 6 (2.46%) Wiki
6 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.64%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.23%) Equities
8 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.44%) Windows
2 21 (8.61%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.87%) Linux
4 4 (1.64%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) HPUX
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.66%) Business Intelligence
1 87 (35.66%) ETL
2 51 (20.90%) Data Modelling
3 50 (20.49%) DevOps
4 48 (19.67%) Analytics
5 47 (19.26%) Agile
5 47 (19.26%) CI/CD
6 46 (18.85%) Disaster Recovery
7 45 (18.44%) Performance Tuning
8 42 (17.21%) Migration
9 40 (16.39%) Data Analysis
10 36 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (10.66%) AI
13 25 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.25%) Unit Testing
14 24 (9.84%) Change Management
14 24 (9.84%) Data Engineering
14 24 (9.84%) Workflow
15 21 (8.61%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 239 (97.95%) SQL
2 67 (27.46%) C#
3 63 (25.82%) PL/SQL
4 56 (22.95%) Python
5 30 (12.30%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.02%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.33%) VBA
9 12 (4.92%) VB
10 6 (2.46%) Bash
10 6 (2.46%) Bicep
11 5 (2.05%) Java
11 5 (2.05%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.64%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.23%) XPath
14 2 (0.82%) VBScript
15 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.41%) Groovy
15 1 (0.41%) R
15 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.15%) Degree
4 8 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 42 (17.21%) QA
3 5 (2.05%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.87%) Terraform
2 3 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (39.75%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.77%) Oracle
3 31 (12.70%) Citrix
4 28 (11.48%) Databricks
5 6 (2.46%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.46%) VMware
6 5 (2.05%) Sybase
7 4 (1.64%) Remedy
8 3 (1.23%) BMC
8 3 (1.23%) OpenText
8 3 (1.23%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.82%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.82%) Google
9 2 (0.82%) Informatica
9 2 (0.82%) Intapp
9 2 (0.82%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.82%) RedGate
9 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry