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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 447 333
Rank change year-on-year +27 -114 -43
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 260 107 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.33% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.85% 0.99% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 89 203
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £554 £556 £604
90th Percentile £699 £655 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £435
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 £31.76 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.13 £34.46 -
90th Percentile £26.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
% change year-on-year -27.51% - -

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 14,032 10,758 12,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 32.85% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,117 7,162 8,420
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 299 357
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £36.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.53 £79.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +1 222 £453 +0.67% 142
UK excluding London -12 116 £425 - 77
London -28 115 £483 +2.93% 78
Work from Home -12 71 £506 +23.48% 49
North of England -31 49 £405 -10.00% 21
North West -29 35 £405 -10.00% 15
South East -28 34 £427 +13.96% 20
Yorkshire -25 14 £400 +6.67% 5
Scotland -12 12 £470 +17.50% 2
Midlands -54 9 £413 -2.94% 15
West Midlands -45 8 £413 -2.94% 12
South West -34 6 £425 -18.27% 8
Wales -14 3 £313 +38.27% 1
East of England -21 2 £425 - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 28 (10.77%) IIS
2 23 (8.85%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.31%) Confluence
4 5 (1.92%) Appian
4 5 (1.92%) Camunda
4 5 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) MTS
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.69%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.69%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.92%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.38%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (35.38%) Azure
2 80 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 36 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (8.08%) AWS
7 16 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 13 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.62%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.92%) Serverless
13 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.54%) GCP
13 4 (1.54%) GitHub
14 3 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (1.15%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.85%) Internet
1 10 (3.85%) SSL
2 5 (1.92%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.77%) DHCP
3 2 (0.77%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) LAN
3 2 (0.77%) PABX
3 2 (0.77%) VLAN
3 2 (0.77%) VoIP
3 2 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (70.38%) SQL Server
2 69 (26.54%) Power BI
3 68 (26.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 48 (18.46%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (12.31%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (8.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (6.54%) MySQL
9 13 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (4.23%) MS Access
11 10 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.46%) OLAP
12 9 (3.46%) Relational Database
13 8 (3.08%) Star Schema
13 8 (3.08%) Tableau
14 7 (2.69%) Data Lake
15 6 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.31%) Spark SQL
16 5 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.85%) Git
2 13 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 12 (4.62%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.69%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.69%) tSQLt
6 5 (1.92%) JIRA
7 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.15%) Mocha
7 3 (1.15%) MSTest
8 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.77%) GitLab
9 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.38%) Moq
9 1 (0.38%) Postman
9 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.38%) Toad
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (26.54%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.15%) Finance
3 44 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.23%) Banking
5 15 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.31%) Front Office
7 6 (2.31%) Legal
8 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Law
9 4 (1.54%) Advertising
9 4 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Billing
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Prime Brokerage
11 2 (0.77%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 103 (39.62%) Developer
2 33 (12.69%) SQL Developer
3 32 (12.31%) Data Engineer
4 29 (11.15%) DBA
5 27 (10.38%) C# Developer
5 27 (10.38%) Lead
5 27 (10.38%) SQL DBA
6 25 (9.62%) Consultant
7 24 (9.23%) Senior
8 23 (8.85%) .NET Developer
9 16 (6.15%) Implementation Consultant
9 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.62%) Analyst
12 11 (4.23%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Applications Support
13 10 (3.85%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.46%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (3.08%) C# .NET Developer
15 8 (3.08%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (33.08%) .NET
2 34 (13.08%) .NET Framework
3 33 (12.69%) XML
4 23 (8.85%) ASP.NET
5 21 (8.08%) WinForms
6 18 (6.92%) HTML
7 15 (5.77%) JSON
8 14 (5.38%) XSLT
9 13 (5.00%) REST
10 12 (4.62%) PySpark
10 12 (4.62%) React
11 11 (4.23%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (4.23%) CSS
11 11 (4.23%) WPF
12 9 (3.46%) SOAP
12 9 (3.46%) WCF
12 9 (3.46%) Web Services
13 8 (3.08%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.08%) SPFx
14 7 (2.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.46%) Replication
2 15 (5.77%) Clustering
3 14 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.69%) NHS
6 5 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.77%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.77%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.77%) Equities
8 2 (0.77%) Handset
8 2 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.77%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (24.62%) Windows
2 33 (12.69%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.08%) Linux
4 6 (2.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) HPUX
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.15%) ETL
2 80 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (26.54%) DevOps
4 62 (23.85%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (19.23%) Agile
5 50 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (18.85%) Data Modelling
7 48 (18.46%) CI/CD
8 43 (16.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (15.77%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.46%) AI
11 33 (12.69%) Analytics
12 32 (12.31%) Migration
13 29 (11.15%) Workflow
14 26 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.62%) Data Integration
15 25 (9.62%) Lakehouse
16 24 (9.23%) Change Management
17 22 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
18 21 (8.08%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 256 (98.46%) SQL
2 87 (33.46%) C#
3 65 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 48 (18.46%) Python
5 30 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.15%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.08%) VBA
8 16 (6.15%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.62%) XPath
10 11 (4.23%) VB
11 8 (3.08%) VBScript
12 6 (2.31%) Java
13 3 (1.15%) Bash
13 3 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) Tcl
14 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.77%) Degree
4 14 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CISA
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 26 (10.00%) QA
3 6 (2.31%) GDPR
4 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.23%) SCOM
2 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 108 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 68 (26.15%) Oracle
3 26 (10.00%) Citrix
4 18 (6.92%) Databricks
5 15 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.69%) Sybase
7 6 (2.31%) Intapp
7 6 (2.31%) RedGate
7 6 (2.31%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.92%) OpenText
9 4 (1.54%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.15%) BMC
10 3 (1.15%) Remedy
10 3 (1.15%) SYSPRO
11 2 (0.77%) Google
11 2 (0.77%) NetCracker
11 2 (0.77%) Teradata
12 1 (0.38%) Foundry
12 1 (0.38%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.38%) Telerik