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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 435 326
Rank change year-on-year +33 -109 -43
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 280 119 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.36% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 1.10% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 95 197
10th Percentile £352 £329 £363
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £683 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - -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 14,117 10,862 12,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.48% 33.00% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,165 7,304 8,594
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.52% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £497
% change year-on-year +4.21% -4.50% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 260 409
10th Percentile £30.05 £27.99 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £35.75 £46.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -12.12% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.45 £83.11 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 6 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 6 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 +39 245 £453 -7.08% 80
UK excluding London -14 129 £425 - 55
London -13 122 £490 -2.00% 33
Work from Home -12 82 £515 -6.36% 54
South East -10 48 £404 +15.36% 17
North of England -33 48 £403 -10.50% 17
North West -27 34 £403 -10.50% 9
Yorkshire -35 14 £400 - 5
Scotland +1 10 £465 +16.25% 2
Midlands -51 10 £400 -5.88% 12
West Midlands -50 9 £400 -5.88% 11
South West -39 8 £425 -18.27% 4
Wales -10 3 £313 +53.00% 1
East of England -19 1 - - 2
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 31 (11.07%) IIS
2 22 (7.86%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.79%) Appian
5 5 (1.79%) Camunda
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Apache
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 56 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (2.50%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.50%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
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 (34.64%) Azure
2 82 (29.29%) Power Platform
3 41 (14.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (9.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (9.29%) AWS
7 14 (5.00%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.93%) PowerApps
10 9 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.50%) Serverless
12 6 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.43%) GCP
14 4 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) Internet
2 7 (2.50%) SSL
3 5 (1.79%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.71%) DHCP
4 2 (0.71%) DNS
4 2 (0.71%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) LAN
4 2 (0.71%) PABX
4 2 (0.71%) VLAN
4 2 (0.71%) VoIP
4 2 (0.71%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (69.64%) SQL Server
2 74 (26.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 69 (24.64%) Power BI
4 53 (18.93%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (12.86%) Oracle Database
5 36 (12.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 23 (8.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (7.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 15 (5.36%) MySQL
9 12 (4.29%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (3.93%) MS Access
11 9 (3.21%) OLAP
12 8 (2.86%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.50%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.50%) Tableau
14 6 (2.14%) Metadata
14 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.14%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (8.21%) Git
2 12 (4.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 12 (4.29%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.50%) tSQLt
5 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.79%) JIRA
5 5 (1.79%) Mocha
5 5 (1.79%) MSTest
6 2 (0.71%) 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 72 (25.71%) Finance
2 71 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.93%) Banking
5 17 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.43%) Advertising
8 4 (1.43%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 106 (37.86%) Developer
2 39 (13.93%) Data Engineer
3 38 (13.57%) Consultant
4 35 (12.50%) SQL Developer
5 33 (11.79%) C# Developer
6 31 (11.07%) DBA
7 28 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
7 28 (10.00%) SQL DBA
8 27 (9.64%) Senior
9 24 (8.57%) .NET Developer
10 23 (8.21%) Lead
11 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.64%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.29%) Analyst
13 12 (4.29%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.93%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.93%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
16 8 (2.86%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.43%) .NET
2 47 (16.79%) XML
3 39 (13.93%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.86%) ASP.NET
4 22 (7.86%) WinForms
5 20 (7.14%) HTML
6 16 (5.71%) JSON
7 14 (5.00%) REST
7 14 (5.00%) XSLT
8 13 (4.64%) CSS
9 12 (4.29%) PySpark
9 12 (4.29%) React
9 12 (4.29%) WPF
10 11 (3.93%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (3.21%) RESTful
11 9 (3.21%) WCF
12 8 (2.86%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.86%) SPFx
13 7 (2.50%) SOAP
13 7 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.21%) Replication
2 16 (5.71%) Clustering
2 16 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.50%) NHS
5 6 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.43%) Wiki
7 3 (1.07%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.71%) Derivative
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Equities
8 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.71%) Handset
8 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.50%) Windows
2 30 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.43%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.86%) ETL
2 88 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (25.00%) DevOps
4 63 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (18.93%) Data Modelling
6 52 (18.57%) Agile
7 51 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 45 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (15.36%) Data Analysis
11 41 (14.64%) Migration
12 37 (13.21%) Analytics
13 35 (12.50%) Workflow
14 33 (11.79%) AI
15 29 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
16 26 (9.29%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.57%) Change Management
17 24 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (8.57%) Data Integration
18 22 (7.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 276 (98.57%) SQL
2 90 (32.14%) C#
3 70 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 46 (16.43%) Python
5 30 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.36%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.50%) VBA
8 17 (6.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.71%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.29%) VB
10 12 (4.29%) XPath
11 8 (2.86%) VBScript
12 5 (1.79%) Bash
12 5 (1.79%) Java
13 4 (1.43%) Bicep
14 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) C++
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.79%) 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 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 36 (12.86%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.50%) SCOM
2 5 (1.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) 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 (40.71%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.64%) Oracle
3 31 (11.07%) Citrix
4 20 (7.14%) Databricks
5 12 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.14%) Intapp
7 5 (1.79%) OpenText
7 5 (1.79%) RedGate
7 5 (1.79%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.43%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.43%) Remedy
8 4 (1.43%) Sybase
9 3 (1.07%) BMC
9 3 (1.07%) Google
9 3 (1.07%) SYSPRO
10 2 (0.71%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.71%) VMware
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.36%) Telerik
11 1 (0.36%) Teradata