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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 339 316
Rank change year-on-year -125 -23 -57
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 122 191 307
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.82% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 130 189
10th Percentile £350 £330 £375
25th Percentile £404 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £600
90th Percentile £668 £639 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.14
25th Percentile - £45.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%
75th Percentile - - £24.61
90th Percentile - - £26.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £18.41
% change year-on-year - +253.12% -47.41%

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 11,367 10,514 12,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.87% 32.65% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,543 6,699 9,234
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 241 410
10th Percentile £34.50 £21.25 £34.73
25th Percentile £51.21 £38.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -1.31%
75th Percentile £69.45 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.40 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -

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 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 16 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 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 -117 106 £415 -19.02% 341
London -30 69 £415 -20.95% 221
Work from Home -37 41 £456 -0.82% 392
UK excluding London -101 38 £450 +2.86% 337
North of England -55 14 £450 +23.12% 39
North West -25 10 £450 +33.14% 15
Wales -1 5 £600 +272.49% 10
South West -4 5 £550 +15.79% 36
South East -48 5 £475 -9.52% 159
Yorkshire -48 4 £375 - 5
Midlands -49 4 £550 +22.22% 22
Scotland 0 3 £700 +80.65% 69
East Midlands -26 3 £550 +54.49% 17
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
West Midlands -48 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - - 31

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 15 (12.30%) IIS
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (12.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.82%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) Azure Data Factory
2 32 (26.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 32 (26.23%) Power Platform
3 21 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.20%) AWS
5 9 (7.38%) Serverless
6 8 (6.56%) GitHub
6 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (5.74%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (5.74%) SaaS
8 6 (4.92%) AtomSphere
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (4.92%) Boomi
8 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.10%) GCP
10 4 (3.28%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.02%) 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 81 (66.39%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.41%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (23.77%) Power BI
4 25 (20.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (17.21%) Oracle Database
6 20 (16.39%) Data Lake
7 17 (13.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (8.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (7.38%) Power Query
9 9 (7.38%) Relational Database
9 9 (7.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (6.56%) Metadata
11 6 (4.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (4.10%) DataStage
12 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.10%) Star Schema
13 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
13 4 (3.28%) Spark SQL
14 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (2.46%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Git
2 11 (9.02%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.64%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.82%) Appium
6 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.82%) GitLab
6 1 (0.82%) JIRA
6 1 (0.82%) JMeter
6 1 (0.82%) Moq
6 1 (0.82%) NUnit
6 1 (0.82%) Pylint
6 1 (0.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.82%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 35 (28.69%) Finance
2 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Banking
4 15 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.20%) 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%) Back Office
9 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.82%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (58.20%) Developer
2 27 (22.13%) C# Developer
3 23 (18.85%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.48%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.20%) Integration Developer
6 9 (7.38%) Architect
6 9 (7.38%) SQL Developer
7 7 (5.74%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.74%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (5.74%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (5.74%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.74%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.74%) WPF Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior
9 5 (4.10%) Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) DBA
10 4 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (34.43%) .NET
2 26 (21.31%) .NET Framework
3 16 (13.11%) PySpark
4 14 (11.48%) WPF
5 12 (9.84%) WinForms
6 11 (9.02%) XML
7 10 (8.20%) JSON
7 10 (8.20%) WCF
8 9 (7.38%) REST
8 9 (7.38%) SOAP
9 8 (6.56%) React
10 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.92%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.92%) Kafka
11 6 (4.92%) Web Services
12 5 (4.10%) Middleware
13 4 (3.28%) ADO
14 3 (2.46%) ASP.NET
14 3 (2.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.28%) NHS
4 3 (2.46%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.82%) Clustering
6 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) IoT
6 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (24.59%) Windows
2 15 (12.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (38.52%) Business Intelligence
1 47 (38.52%) CI/CD
2 41 (33.61%) DevOps
2 41 (33.61%) ETL
3 36 (29.51%) Agile
3 36 (29.51%) Analytics
4 34 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.23%) Data Modelling
6 24 (19.67%) Data Analysis
6 24 (19.67%) Migration
7 20 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (15.57%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (14.75%) Data Engineering
10 16 (13.11%) Data Governance
10 16 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (10.66%) Validation
12 12 (9.84%) Change Management
12 12 (9.84%) Data Architecture
12 12 (9.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (92.62%) SQL
2 49 (40.16%) C#
3 37 (30.33%) PL/SQL
4 34 (27.87%) Python
5 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.84%) VBA
7 11 (9.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (9.02%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.38%) VB
9 7 (5.74%) Java
10 6 (4.92%) Groovy
11 5 (4.10%) Bicep
12 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.46%) X++
13 1 (0.82%) Bash
13 1 (0.82%) Scala
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Degree
2 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.82%) HP APS
8 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.85%) QA
2 22 (18.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.64%) MiFID
3 2 (1.64%) WCAG
4 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.82%) EMIR
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) HL7
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.38%) Terraform
2 2 (1.64%) Control-M
2 2 (1.64%) Grafana
2 2 (1.64%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.82%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 54 (44.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (30.33%) Oracle
3 27 (22.13%) Databricks
4 20 (16.39%) Citrix
5 6 (4.92%) VMware
6 4 (3.28%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.28%) SAP
7 3 (2.46%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.46%) Google
8 2 (1.64%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.64%) EMC
8 2 (1.64%) Informatica
8 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.82%) CQG
9 1 (0.82%) HP
9 1 (0.82%) iManage
9 1 (0.82%) Sage
9 1 (0.82%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.82%) Workday