T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 482 458 335
Rank change year-on-year -24 -123 -32
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 234 114 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.33% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 1.02% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 90 157
10th Percentile £350 £309 £363
25th Percentile £404 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +6.71% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +213.93%

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 citing coding skills.

6 months to
10 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills 14,802 11,176 11,638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 26.74% 32.26% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,630 7,357 7,496
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £477 £494
% change year-on-year +4.93% -3.54% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 318 277
10th Percentile £21.08 £29.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £42.16 £44.01 £38.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% +2.73%
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.47 £77.50 £75.00
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 10 November 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 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -48 194 £453 +0.67% 189
London -44 117 £464 +4.27% 64
UK excluding London -45 85 £438 +6.71% 120
Work from Home -36 74 £500 +11.11% 103
North of England -45 36 £400 +2.56% 33
North West -38 25 £403 -4.17% 14
South East -54 16 £513 +36.67% 40
Scotland -10 14 £450 -35.71% 6
Yorkshire -18 11 £400 +6.67% 15
West Midlands -30 9 £413 - 20
Midlands -33 9 £413 -25.00% 26
South West -26 5 £750 +44.23% 8
Wales -13 3 £313 -23.78%
East of England -26 1 £425 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

T-SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SQL99.1%232
2C#36.8%86
3PL/SQL22.6%53
4Python20.1%47
5PowerShell15.0%35
6JavaScript10.7%25
7VBA9.0%21
8VB.NET6.4%15
9Data Analysis Expressions5.1%12
9VB5.1%12
9XPath5.1%12
12Bash3.8%9
12Shell Script3.8%9
14VBScript3.4%8
15Java2.6%6
16TypeScript2.1%5
17Scala0.9%2
18JCL0.4%1
18R0.4%1
18Ruby0.4%1