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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 359 310
Rank change year-on-year -107 -49 -44
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 124 179 299
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.56% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.08% 1.71% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 123 185
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £404 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £670 £625 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
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 11,445 10,489 12,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.78% 32.92% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,608 6,665 9,128
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £618 £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 396 241 422
10th Percentile £37.01 £21.25 £35.05
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.88 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% -3.46% -

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 16 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 16 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 -101 107 £415 -17.00% 151
London -28 69 £415 -20.95% 56
Work from Home -40 41 £469 +1.90% 168
UK excluding London -92 38 £450 - 163
North of England -53 14 £450 +23.12% 26
North West -16 10 £450 +33.14% 20
South East -46 6 £475 -9.52% 46
Wales +2 5 £600 +272.67% 13
South West -11 5 £550 +15.79% 23
Yorkshire -54 4 £375 - 5
Scotland +2 3 £700 +80.65% 24
East Midlands -28 3 £550 +54.49% 10
Midlands -58 3 £550 +22.22% 16
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 20

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 16 (12.90%) IIS
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.81%) Azure
2 34 (27.42%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (26.61%) Power Platform
4 32 (25.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.06%) AWS
7 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (7.26%) Serverless
8 8 (6.45%) GitHub
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.65%) SaaS
10 6 (4.84%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.84%) Boomi
10 6 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.84%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.03%) GCP
12 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
12 4 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) Internet
2 3 (2.42%) DHCP
2 3 (2.42%) DNS
2 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (63.71%) SQL Server
2 30 (24.19%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (24.19%) Power BI
3 24 (19.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 22 (17.74%) Oracle Database
5 19 (15.32%) Data Lake
6 16 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (8.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (7.26%) Relational Database
9 8 (6.45%) Power Query
9 8 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (5.65%) Metadata
10 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.84%) Star Schema
12 5 (4.03%) DataStage
12 5 (4.03%) Delta Lake
12 5 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (4.03%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Git
1 13 (10.48%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.61%) JIRA
3 2 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.61%) SpecFlow
3 2 (1.61%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.81%) Appium
4 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Moq
4 1 (0.81%) Poetry
4 1 (0.81%) Postman
4 1 (0.81%) Pylint
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
4 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 34 (27.42%) Finance
2 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.52%) Banking
4 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.03%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Law
8 2 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Back Office
9 1 (0.81%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.81%) Front Office
9 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (58.06%) Developer
2 30 (24.19%) C# Developer
3 25 (20.16%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.29%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.06%) Architect
6 9 (7.26%) Integration Developer
7 8 (6.45%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.45%) SQL Developer
8 7 (5.65%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.65%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (5.65%) C# WPF Developer
8 7 (5.65%) WCF Developer
8 7 (5.65%) WPF Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Azure Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.84%) Senior
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.03%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.48%) .NET
2 29 (23.39%) .NET Framework
3 17 (13.71%) PySpark
4 15 (12.10%) WPF
5 13 (10.48%) WinForms
6 10 (8.06%) WCF
7 9 (7.26%) JSON
7 9 (7.26%) SOAP
7 9 (7.26%) XML
8 8 (6.45%) React
8 8 (6.45%) REST
9 7 (5.65%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.84%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.84%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.84%) Kafka
11 5 (4.03%) Middleware
11 5 (4.03%) Web Services
12 4 (3.23%) ADO
13 3 (2.42%) ASP.NET
13 3 (2.42%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.42%) Data Fabric
3 3 (2.42%) NHS
4 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.81%) Clustering
5 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.61%) Windows
2 17 (13.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.13%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (39.52%) CI/CD
3 41 (33.06%) DevOps
4 40 (32.26%) ETL
5 38 (30.65%) Agile
5 38 (30.65%) Analytics
6 33 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (25.81%) Data Modelling
8 23 (18.55%) Data Analysis
8 23 (18.55%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (17.74%) Migration
10 20 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (13.71%) Data Engineering
12 16 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (12.10%) Data Governance
14 14 (11.29%) Change Management
15 13 (10.48%) Data Architecture
15 13 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
16 12 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
16 12 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 115 (92.74%) SQL
2 51 (41.13%) C#
3 41 (33.06%) PL/SQL
4 35 (28.23%) Python
5 13 (10.48%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.68%) VBA
7 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (8.06%) VB
9 7 (5.65%) Java
10 6 (4.84%) Groovy
11 5 (4.03%) Bicep
12 3 (2.42%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.42%) X++
13 1 (0.81%) Bash
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (16.94%) Degree
2 15 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.81%) HP APS
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.77%) QA
2 22 (17.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) MiFID
3 2 (1.61%) WCAG
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) EMIR
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (7.26%) Terraform
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Control-M
3 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.81%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (43.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (32.26%) Oracle
3 29 (23.39%) Databricks
4 23 (18.55%) Citrix
5 5 (4.03%) VMware
6 4 (3.23%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.23%) SAP
7 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.42%) Google
8 2 (1.61%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.61%) Informatica
8 2 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.81%) CQG
9 1 (0.81%) EMC
9 1 (0.81%) HP
9 1 (0.81%) Sage
9 1 (0.81%) Sybase
9 1 (0.81%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.81%) Workday