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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 434 327
Rank change year-on-year +35 -107 -41
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 278 118 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.36% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.08% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 94 199
10th Percentile £350 £326 £363
25th Percentile £404 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% -8.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £554 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £684 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -1.83% - -10.53%
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 14,096 10,888 12,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.43% 32.84% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,150 7,308 8,531
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.91% -3.64%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 267 407
10th Percentile £29.98 £28.11 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £36.00 £45.61
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +7.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £84.70 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.65%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +15 243 £453 -8.25% 145
UK excluding London +2 129 £417 -1.83% 77
London -39 120 £475 -5.00% 80
Work from Home +2 81 £514 -6.59% 72
South East -24 48 £404 +15.36% 19
North of England -25 48 £403 -10.50% 25
North West -18 34 £403 -10.50% 15
Yorkshire -29 14 £400 - 7
Midlands -46 11 £398 -6.47% 13
Scotland -5 10 £465 +16.25% 3
West Midlands -44 10 £398 -6.47% 11
South West -37 7 £475 -8.65% 6
Wales -15 3 £313 +53.00%
East of England -17 1 - - 10
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 31 (11.15%) IIS
2 22 (7.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.52%) Confluence
4 6 (2.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.80%) Appian
5 5 (1.80%) Camunda
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (20.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.52%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.52%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.80%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 97 (34.89%) Azure
2 82 (29.50%) Power Platform
3 42 (15.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (9.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (9.35%) AWS
7 14 (5.04%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.96%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.52%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.52%) Serverless
12 6 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.44%) GCP
15 3 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) Internet
2 7 (2.52%) SSL
3 5 (1.80%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.72%) DHCP
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) LAN
4 2 (0.72%) PABX
4 2 (0.72%) VLAN
4 2 (0.72%) VoIP
4 2 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (69.06%) SQL Server
2 73 (26.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (24.82%) Power BI
4 54 (19.42%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (12.95%) Oracle Database
6 34 (12.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (8.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (7.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (5.76%) MySQL
10 13 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (4.32%) Data Lake
12 11 (3.96%) MS Access
13 9 (3.24%) OLAP
14 8 (2.88%) Relational Database
15 7 (2.52%) Star Schema
15 7 (2.52%) Tableau
16 6 (2.16%) Metadata
16 6 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (2.16%) Spark SQL
17 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.27%) Git
2 12 (4.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.32%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.24%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.52%) tSQLt
5 5 (1.80%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.80%) JIRA
5 5 (1.80%) Mocha
5 5 (1.80%) MSTest
6 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Moq
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Toad
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 71 (25.54%) Finance
1 71 (25.54%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (14.03%) Banking
4 17 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.16%) Legal
7 4 (1.44%) Advertising
7 4 (1.44%) Law
8 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.72%) Billing
9 2 (0.72%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Local Government
9 2 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (37.77%) Developer
2 39 (14.03%) Data Engineer
3 38 (13.67%) Consultant
4 34 (12.23%) SQL Developer
5 33 (11.87%) C# Developer
6 30 (10.79%) DBA
7 28 (10.07%) Implementation Consultant
8 27 (9.71%) Senior
8 27 (9.71%) SQL DBA
9 24 (8.63%) .NET Developer
10 23 (8.27%) Lead
11 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.68%) Analyst
12 13 (4.68%) Payroll Consultant
13 11 (3.96%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.96%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.96%) SQL Server DBA
14 10 (3.60%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.88%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.65%) .NET
2 47 (16.91%) XML
3 39 (14.03%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.91%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.91%) WinForms
5 20 (7.19%) HTML
6 16 (5.76%) JSON
7 14 (5.04%) REST
7 14 (5.04%) XSLT
8 13 (4.68%) CSS
8 13 (4.68%) PySpark
9 12 (4.32%) React
9 12 (4.32%) WPF
10 11 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (3.24%) RESTful
11 9 (3.24%) WCF
12 8 (2.88%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.88%) SPFx
13 7 (2.52%) SOAP
13 7 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.55%) Replication
2 16 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.40%) Clustering
4 9 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.52%) NHS
6 6 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.44%) Wiki
8 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.72%) Derivative
8 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.72%) Equities
8 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.72%) Handset
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.30%) Windows
2 29 (10.43%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.88%) Linux
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.73%) ETL
2 86 (30.94%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (24.82%) DevOps
4 62 (22.30%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (19.06%) Data Modelling
6 52 (18.71%) Agile
7 51 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (17.27%) CI/CD
9 45 (16.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.47%) Data Analysis
11 40 (14.39%) Migration
12 37 (13.31%) Analytics
13 35 (12.59%) Workflow
14 33 (11.87%) AI
15 29 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (9.35%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.63%) Change Management
17 24 (8.63%) Data Integration
18 23 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 22 (7.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 274 (98.56%) SQL
2 90 (32.37%) C#
3 71 (25.54%) PL/SQL
4 47 (16.91%) Python
5 29 (10.43%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.43%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.55%) VBA
7 17 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (5.76%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.32%) VB
9 12 (4.32%) XPath
10 8 (2.88%) VBScript
11 5 (1.80%) Bash
11 5 (1.80%) Java
12 4 (1.44%) Bicep
13 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.36%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.79%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.63%) Degree
4 11 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.88%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISA
7 1 (0.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.11%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.95%) QA
3 6 (2.16%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.52%) SCOM
2 5 (1.80%) Terraform
3 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (41.01%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.18%) Oracle
3 31 (11.15%) Citrix
4 20 (7.19%) Databricks
5 12 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.16%) Intapp
7 5 (1.80%) OpenText
7 5 (1.80%) RedGate
7 5 (1.80%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.44%) Remedy
8 4 (1.44%) Sybase
9 3 (1.08%) BMC
9 3 (1.08%) Google
9 3 (1.08%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.36%) Foundry
11 1 (0.36%) Informatica
11 1 (0.36%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir