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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 412 340
Rank change year-on-year +15 -72 -56
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 245 109 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 1.11% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 83 187
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £668 £685 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -86.37%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -90.09%

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 13,131 9,828 12,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.88% 34.16% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,589 6,685 9,180
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £650
90th Percentile £713 £756 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 227 522
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.88 £34.20 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.80 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +3 222 £450 -7.69% 81
London -30 116 £453 -9.45% 27
UK excluding London -28 106 £425 +3.03% 62
Work from Home -17 63 £525 -4.55% 41
South East -11 53 £411 -6.03% 22
North of England -60 29 £453 +20.67% 16
North West -22 20 £453 -4.74% 7
Yorkshire -56 9 £408 +8.67% 6
South West -22 7 £475 -9.09% 9
Scotland -1 4 £470 - 2
Midlands -60 4 £398 -6.47% 5
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
West Midlands -59 3 £398 -6.47% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Wales -13 2 £313 +53.00% 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 22 (8.98%) IIS
2 12 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.22%) Apache
4 3 (1.22%) Appian
4 3 (1.22%) Camunda
4 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Mule
6 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.22%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.22%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.22%) SystmOne
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.41%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 89 (36.33%) Azure
2 73 (29.80%) Power Platform
3 45 (18.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (15.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.39%) AWS
7 12 (4.90%) Power Automate
8 10 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.08%) Serverless
9 8 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.27%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.86%) GitHub
11 5 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.63%) Entra ID
13 3 (1.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.49%) Internet
2 2 (0.82%) HTTP
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) SMTP
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (64.08%) SQL Server
2 61 (24.90%) Power BI
3 58 (23.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 44 (17.96%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (12.65%) Oracle Database
7 29 (11.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.98%) Data Lake
9 21 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (4.08%) Spark SQL
11 9 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (3.27%) Delta Lake
12 8 (3.27%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.86%) Metadata
13 7 (2.86%) Power Query
14 6 (2.45%) DataStage
14 6 (2.45%) MySQL
14 6 (2.45%) Tableau
15 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (2.04%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 17 (6.94%) Git
2 12 (4.90%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.45%) JIRA
6 5 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.04%) Mocha
6 5 (2.04%) MSTest
6 5 (2.04%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.82%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.41%) ERwin
8 1 (0.41%) GitLab
8 1 (0.41%) Moq
8 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 66 (26.94%) Finance
2 54 (22.04%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.88%) Banking
4 32 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.49%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.04%) Legal
8 4 (1.63%) Advertising
9 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.22%) Law
9 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (36.33%) Developer
2 42 (17.14%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.29%) Consultant
4 33 (13.47%) C# Developer
5 29 (11.84%) Implementation Consultant
5 29 (11.84%) SQL Developer
6 24 (9.80%) Microsoft Engineer
7 21 (8.57%) Senior
8 19 (7.76%) DBA
9 17 (6.94%) SQL DBA
10 16 (6.53%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.31%) Payroll Consultant
12 10 (4.08%) Analyst
12 10 (4.08%) Architect
13 9 (3.67%) Database Developer
13 9 (3.67%) Lead
14 8 (3.27%) Applications Developer
14 8 (3.27%) C# Application Developer
14 8 (3.27%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.71%) .NET
2 40 (16.33%) .NET Framework
3 36 (14.69%) XML
4 17 (6.94%) PySpark
5 15 (6.12%) CSS
6 14 (5.71%) HTML
6 14 (5.71%) REST
7 13 (5.31%) JSON
7 13 (5.31%) WinForms
8 12 (4.90%) React
9 11 (4.49%) WPF
10 10 (4.08%) RESTful
11 8 (3.27%) SPFx
12 7 (2.86%) ASP.NET
13 6 (2.45%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.45%) YAML
14 5 (2.04%) Entity Framework
14 5 (2.04%) Kafka
14 5 (2.04%) SOAP
14 5 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.71%) Replication
1 14 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.08%) Clustering
4 7 (2.86%) NHS
5 6 (2.45%) Wiki
6 5 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.63%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.82%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.41%) Derivative
10 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.41%) Life Science
10 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.18%) Windows
2 23 (9.39%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) HPUX
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (35.10%) ETL
3 51 (20.82%) Data Modelling
4 50 (20.41%) DevOps
5 49 (20.00%) Analytics
6 47 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 47 (19.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 46 (18.78%) Agile
8 44 (17.96%) Performance Tuning
9 41 (16.73%) Data Analysis
9 41 (16.73%) Migration
10 35 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (11.02%) AI
13 26 (10.61%) Unit Testing
14 25 (10.20%) Change Management
14 25 (10.20%) Data Engineering
15 24 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (9.80%) Workflow
16 22 (8.98%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 240 (97.96%) SQL
2 67 (27.35%) C#
3 65 (26.53%) PL/SQL
4 58 (23.67%) Python
5 29 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.31%) VBA
9 12 (4.90%) VB
10 6 (2.45%) Bash
10 6 (2.45%) Bicep
11 5 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.04%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.63%) Java
13 3 (1.22%) XPath
14 2 (0.82%) VBScript
15 1 (0.41%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.41%) Groovy
15 1 (0.41%) R
15 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.53%) Degree
4 8 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 43 (17.55%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.67%) Terraform
2 3 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Grafana
4 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 97 (39.59%) Microsoft
2 60 (24.49%) Oracle
3 33 (13.47%) Citrix
4 29 (11.84%) Databricks
5 6 (2.45%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.45%) VMware
6 4 (1.63%) Remedy
6 4 (1.63%) Sybase
7 3 (1.22%) BMC
7 3 (1.22%) OpenText
7 3 (1.22%) SYSPRO
8 2 (0.82%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.82%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) Informatica
8 2 (0.82%) Intapp
8 2 (0.82%) NetCracker
8 2 (0.82%) RedGate
8 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.41%) Adobe
9 1 (0.41%) Foundry