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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 354 300
Rank change year-on-year -110 -54 -41
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 122 204 314
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.60% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.06% 1.85% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 140 197
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +6.77% +1.05%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +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 11,512 11,049 13,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.12% 32.55% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,607 7,086 9,417
10th Percentile £350 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 377 252 407
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.33 £35.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -107 104 £415 -20.95% 78
London -45 69 £415 -27.83% 28
Work from Home -28 39 £456 -2.67% 68
UK excluding London -87 37 £450 - 83
North of England -59 14 £450 +16.13% 15
North West -32 10 £450 +12.50% 7
Wales 0 5 £600 +272.49%
South East -38 5 £475 -9.52% 27
Scotland +3 4 £700 +80.65% 20
Yorkshire -38 4 £375 - 4
Midlands -56 4 £550 +22.22% 12
South West -4 3 £469 +10.29% 10
East Midlands -18 3 £550 +54.49% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
West Midlands -34 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 - - 4

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 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.64%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (45.90%) Azure
2 26 (21.31%) Azure Data Factory
2 26 (21.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 26 (21.31%) Power Platform
3 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.20%) AWS
5 9 (7.38%) Serverless
6 8 (6.56%) GitHub
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%) Boomi
8 6 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.10%) GCP
9 5 (4.10%) Nutanix
10 4 (3.28%) Azure Storage
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%) Network Security
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
3 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (68.85%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.41%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (18.85%) Power BI
4 21 (17.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (15.57%) Oracle Database
6 18 (14.75%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (9.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (8.20%) Relational Database
9 10 (8.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (6.56%) Metadata
11 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (4.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (4.10%) Power Query
12 5 (4.10%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.46%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.46%) DataStage
13 3 (2.46%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Git
2 10 (8.20%) 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%) 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%) Postman
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 38 (31.15%) Finance
2 29 (23.77%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.48%) Banking
5 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.28%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.64%) Back Office
8 2 (1.64%) Front Office
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
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 77 (63.11%) Developer
2 26 (21.31%) C# Developer
3 17 (13.93%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) .NET Developer
5 10 (8.20%) Integration Developer
5 10 (8.20%) SQL Developer
6 8 (6.56%) Architect
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%) ETL Developer
7 7 (5.74%) Senior
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
9 5 (4.10%) Analyst
9 5 (4.10%) Data Architect
9 5 (4.10%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.07%) .NET
2 26 (21.31%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.48%) WPF
3 14 (11.48%) XML
4 13 (10.66%) JSON
5 12 (9.84%) PySpark
5 12 (9.84%) WinForms
6 10 (8.20%) WCF
7 9 (7.38%) React
7 9 (7.38%) REST
7 9 (7.38%) SOAP
8 8 (6.56%) Web Services
9 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET Web API
9 7 (5.74%) Kafka
10 6 (4.92%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.10%) Middleware
11 5 (4.10%) RESTful
12 4 (3.28%) ADO
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%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.46%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.64%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.82%) Clustering
6 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
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%) Onboarding
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 29 (23.77%) Windows
2 14 (11.48%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.25%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.79%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (31.97%) DevOps
3 39 (31.97%) ETL
4 36 (29.51%) Agile
5 35 (28.69%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (24.59%) Analytics
7 28 (22.95%) Migration
8 27 (22.13%) Data Modelling
9 25 (20.49%) Data Analysis
10 20 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (14.75%) Data Engineering
12 17 (13.93%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (12.30%) Validation
15 14 (11.48%) Data Governance
16 13 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
17 12 (9.84%) OOP
17 12 (9.84%) Scrum
17 12 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 113 (92.62%) SQL
2 51 (41.80%) C#
3 34 (27.87%) PL/SQL
4 32 (26.23%) Python
5 15 (12.30%) VBA
6 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.20%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.38%) VB
9 7 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (5.74%) Java
10 6 (4.92%) Bicep
10 6 (4.92%) Groovy
11 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.46%) X++
12 1 (0.82%) Bash
12 1 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (16.39%) Degree
2 13 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) HP APS
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.03%) QA
2 18 (14.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) MiFID
4 2 (1.64%) EMIR
4 2 (1.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) WCAG
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.82%) HL7
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 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
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.20%) Terraform
2 4 (3.28%) Control-M
2 4 (3.28%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 52 (42.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (27.87%) Oracle
3 19 (15.57%) Citrix
3 19 (15.57%) Databricks
4 9 (7.38%) VMware
5 5 (4.10%) EMC
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%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.64%) CQG
8 2 (1.64%) Informatica
8 2 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.64%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.82%) iManage
9 1 (0.82%) Okta
9 1 (0.82%) Sage
9 1 (0.82%) Workday