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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 442 342
Rank change year-on-year +43 -100 -51
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 282 111 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.03% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 88 197
10th Percentile £360 £340 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £671 £699 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £433
% change year-on-year +5.28% -7.62% -8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% - -
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -25.67% - -

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 14,292 10,813 13,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 27.02% 33.32% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,289 7,288 9,322
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 265 525
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.68 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.22 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% +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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +29 248 £453 -9.40% 73
London +7 132 £491 -1.80% 23
UK excluding London -15 119 £421 +5.28% 61
Work from Home -10 77 £525 -11.39% 48
South East -12 51 £405 +15.71% 21
North of England -46 40 £405 +8.00% 17
North West -32 27 £403 +1.96% 10
Yorkshire -42 13 £450 +20.00% 6
Scotland -4 8 £475 +18.75% 3
South West -29 7 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -62 5 £400 -5.88% 10
West Midlands -64 4 £400 -5.88% 8
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -14 3 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 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 32 (11.35%) IIS
2 20 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.84%) Confluence
4 6 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.77%) Appian
5 5 (1.77%) Camunda
6 3 (1.06%) Apache
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.35%) Mule
8 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 53 (18.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.13%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.13%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.77%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.06%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.35%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 98 (34.75%) Azure
2 82 (29.08%) Power Platform
3 37 (13.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (9.93%) AWS
6 26 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.55%) Serverless
9 9 (3.19%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.48%) GitHub
11 6 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.42%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.90%) Internet
2 5 (1.77%) SSL
3 4 (1.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.35%) HTTP
4 1 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (68.44%) SQL Server
2 74 (26.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (24.47%) Power BI
4 54 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (14.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 34 (12.06%) Oracle Database
7 28 (9.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (7.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.32%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.61%) MySQL
10 13 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.90%) MS Access
12 9 (3.19%) OLAP
13 7 (2.48%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.48%) Tableau
14 6 (2.13%) Metadata
14 6 (2.13%) Spark SQL
14 6 (2.13%) Star Schema
15 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (9.22%) Git
2 16 (5.67%) Visual Studio
3 13 (4.61%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (3.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.48%) JIRA
6 6 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.13%) Mocha
6 6 (2.13%) MSTest
6 6 (2.13%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.71%) GitLab
7 2 (0.71%) Postman
8 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.35%) ERwin
8 1 (0.35%) Moq
8 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 75 (26.60%) Finance
2 68 (24.11%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.25%) Banking
4 40 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.77%) Legal
7 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.42%) Advertising
9 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Law
9 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (40.78%) Developer
2 41 (14.54%) SQL Developer
3 40 (14.18%) Data Engineer
4 36 (12.77%) C# Developer
5 35 (12.41%) Consultant
6 28 (9.93%) DBA
6 28 (9.93%) Implementation Consultant
7 26 (9.22%) Senior
8 25 (8.87%) SQL DBA
9 23 (8.16%) .NET Developer
10 22 (7.80%) Microsoft Engineer
11 21 (7.45%) Lead
12 13 (4.61%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.26%) Analyst
14 11 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.90%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.90%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.19%) C# .NET Developer
15 9 (3.19%) Database Developer
15 9 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (31.56%) .NET
2 49 (17.38%) XML
3 43 (15.25%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.80%) HTML
4 22 (7.80%) WinForms
5 21 (7.45%) ASP.NET
6 19 (6.74%) JSON
7 17 (6.03%) REST
8 16 (5.67%) CSS
9 14 (4.96%) PySpark
9 14 (4.96%) XSLT
10 13 (4.61%) React
11 12 (4.26%) WPF
12 11 (3.90%) RESTful
13 10 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
14 9 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.19%) WCF
15 8 (2.84%) SOAP
15 8 (2.84%) SPFx
16 7 (2.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.16%) Replication
2 16 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.96%) Clustering
4 11 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.19%) NHS
6 6 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.13%) Wiki
7 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.42%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.06%) Equities
8 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.71%) Derivative
9 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.35%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.35%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.99%) Windows
2 28 (9.93%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.19%) Linux
4 4 (1.42%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (32.98%) ETL
3 65 (23.05%) DevOps
4 60 (21.28%) Performance Tuning
5 59 (20.92%) Agile
6 51 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.73%) CI/CD
7 50 (17.73%) Data Modelling
8 49 (17.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 43 (15.25%) Data Analysis
10 42 (14.89%) Analytics
10 42 (14.89%) Migration
11 34 (12.06%) AI
11 34 (12.06%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (11.70%) Workflow
13 31 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (9.57%) Unit Testing
15 25 (8.87%) Change Management
16 24 (8.51%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.16%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 277 (98.23%) SQL
2 94 (33.33%) C#
3 76 (26.95%) PL/SQL
4 52 (18.44%) Python
5 31 (10.99%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.45%) VBA
8 18 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.67%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.26%) VB
10 12 (4.26%) XPath
11 8 (2.84%) VBScript
12 7 (2.48%) Java
13 6 (2.13%) Bash
13 6 (2.13%) Bicep
14 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.71%) Scala
16 1 (0.35%) DataWeave
16 1 (0.35%) Groovy
16 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.51%) Degree
4 9 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.77%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.25%) Data Quality
1 43 (15.25%) QA
2 6 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) IFRS
4 1 (0.35%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.84%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.13%) Terraform
2 5 (1.77%) SCOM
3 3 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.35%) Control-M
5 1 (0.35%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 114 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 71 (25.18%) Oracle
3 34 (12.06%) Citrix
4 18 (6.38%) Databricks
5 10 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.77%) Intapp
6 5 (1.77%) OpenText
6 5 (1.77%) Sybase
6 5 (1.77%) VMware
7 4 (1.42%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.42%) RedGate
7 4 (1.42%) Remedy
7 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.06%) BMC
8 3 (1.06%) Google
8 3 (1.06%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.35%) Telerik
10 1 (0.35%) Teradata