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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 353 304
Rank change year-on-year -108 -49 -38
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 123 217 353
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.85% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 147 228
10th Percentile £355 £350 £387
25th Percentile £401 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +9.95% +0.53%
75th Percentile £553 £624 £600
90th Percentile £665 £675 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +1.18% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,446 11,723 14,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.75% 32.16% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,551 7,479 10,108
10th Percentile £345 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -1.90% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 297 433
10th Percentile £31.25 £22.00 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £64.63 £63.00 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +4.76% -0.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 -106 110 £415 -24.55% 72
London -26 71 £415 -29.66% 21
Work from Home -33 38 £450 -5.26% 45
UK excluding London -76 38 £430 +1.18% 70
North of England -51 16 £396 +2.19% 16
North West -24 12 £402 -5.41% 11
Midlands -40 7 £550 +22.22% 6
East Midlands -11 6 £550 +54.49% 2
Wales +2 5 £600 +272.67% 3
South West +10 4 £520 +26.06% 11
Yorkshire -33 4 £375 +55.09% 5
Scotland -1 3 £700 +66.67% 8
South East -24 3 £375 -31.82% 17
East of England -18 1 - - 8
West Midlands -32 1 - - 4
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 14 (11.38%) IIS
2 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.81%) Appian
3 1 (0.81%) Camunda
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.44%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 51 (41.46%) Azure
2 26 (21.14%) Power Platform
3 21 (17.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (16.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.94%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (8.94%) Serverless
6 10 (8.13%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.32%) AWS
8 7 (5.69%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (5.69%) GitHub
8 7 (5.69%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.69%) PowerApps
8 7 (5.69%) SaaS
9 6 (4.88%) AtomSphere
9 6 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (4.88%) Boomi
10 5 (4.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.07%) GCP
10 5 (4.07%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) Internet
2 3 (2.44%) DHCP
2 3 (2.44%) DNS
2 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (71.54%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.20%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (17.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (16.26%) Power BI
5 18 (14.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (14.63%) Oracle Database
6 13 (10.57%) Data Lake
7 11 (8.94%) Metadata
7 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
7 11 (8.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (4.07%) NoSQL
10 5 (4.07%) Power Query
10 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.07%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.07%) WebFOCUS
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Git
1 9 (7.32%) Visual Studio
2 3 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (1.63%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.81%) Appium
4 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.81%) ERwin
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) JMeter
4 1 (0.81%) Moq
4 1 (0.81%) Poetry
4 1 (0.81%) Postman
4 1 (0.81%) Pylint
4 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 38 (30.89%) Finance
2 31 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Banking
4 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.25%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Back Office
8 3 (2.44%) Front Office
9 2 (1.63%) Advertising
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.81%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (67.48%) Developer
2 24 (19.51%) C# Developer
3 15 (12.20%) .NET Developer
3 15 (12.20%) Data Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) SQL Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Integration Developer
6 10 (8.13%) DBA
7 9 (7.32%) C# WPF Developer
7 9 (7.32%) WPF Developer
8 8 (6.50%) C# WCF Developer
8 8 (6.50%) WCF Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Analyst
9 7 (5.69%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (5.69%) ETL Developer
10 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 5 (4.07%) Senior
12 4 (3.25%) Azure Developer
12 4 (3.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.77%) .NET
2 25 (20.33%) .NET Framework
3 15 (12.20%) WPF
4 14 (11.38%) XML
5 13 (10.57%) JSON
6 11 (8.94%) WCF
6 11 (8.94%) WinForms
7 10 (8.13%) REST
8 9 (7.32%) SOAP
9 8 (6.50%) Kafka
9 8 (6.50%) PySpark
9 8 (6.50%) React
9 8 (6.50%) Web Services
10 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (4.88%) .NET Core
11 6 (4.88%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET
12 5 (4.07%) Middleware
12 5 (4.07%) RESTful
13 3 (2.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.25%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.25%) NHS
2 4 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.44%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.63%) Clustering
4 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.63%) Replication
5 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Windows
2 10 (8.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.52%) CI/CD
2 38 (30.89%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (30.08%) Agile
3 37 (30.08%) DevOps
3 37 (30.08%) ETL
4 33 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (22.76%) Data Analysis
6 27 (21.95%) Analytics
6 27 (21.95%) Migration
7 24 (19.51%) Data Modelling
8 21 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (12.20%) Validation
10 14 (11.38%) Data Engineering
10 14 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (10.57%) OOP
12 12 (9.76%) Data Governance
12 12 (9.76%) Data Integration
12 12 (9.76%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.76%) OO
Programming Languages
1 114 (92.68%) SQL
2 53 (43.09%) C#
3 32 (26.02%) PL/SQL
4 25 (20.33%) Python
5 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 16 (13.01%) VBA
6 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.32%) VB
8 7 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (5.69%) Java
9 6 (4.88%) Bicep
9 6 (4.88%) Groovy
10 5 (4.07%) X++
11 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.81%) Bash
12 1 (0.81%) Scala
12 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) Degree
2 15 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.63%) MCSE
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 23 (18.70%) QA
2 14 (11.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.25%) GDPR
3 4 (3.25%) MiFID
4 3 (2.44%) EMIR
5 2 (1.63%) WCAG
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) HL7
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.63%) Docker
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Control-M
2 4 (3.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.81%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 50 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 33 (26.83%) Oracle
3 17 (13.82%) Citrix
4 12 (9.76%) Databricks
5 8 (6.50%) VMware
6 5 (4.07%) EMC
7 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.25%) SAP
8 3 (2.44%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.44%) CQG
8 3 (2.44%) Google
8 3 (2.44%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.63%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.63%) OpenText
9 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.81%) HP
10 1 (0.81%) iManage
10 1 (0.81%) Northgate
10 1 (0.81%) Sage
10 1 (0.81%) Sybase