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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 342 297
Rank change year-on-year -129 -45 -36
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 123 213 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 1.83% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 142 222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £385
25th Percentile £402 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £539 £620 £600
90th Percentile £673 £675 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -3.53% -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 11,469 11,649 13,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.46% 32.37% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,571 7,464 9,944
10th Percentile £347 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 285 430
10th Percentile £30.08 £22.00 £31.48
25th Percentile £48.44 £40.58 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 £63.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +4.13% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £78.08
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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -100 107 £415 -20.95% 85
London -44 68 £415 -27.83% 20
UK excluding London -94 39 £410 -3.53% 124
Work from Home -43 35 £410 -11.11% 103
North of England -54 17 £396 +2.19% 20
North West -22 13 £402 -5.41% 15
Midlands -44 7 £550 +22.22% 8
East Midlands -14 6 £550 +54.49% 1
Wales -1 5 £600 +272.49% 10
Yorkshire -40 4 £375 +55.09% 4
Scotland +1 3 £700 +80.65% 42
South West -1 3 £520 +26.06% 15
South East -32 3 £375 -31.82% 24
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2
East of England -14 1 - - 5
West Midlands -34 1 - - 7

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 15 (12.20%) 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 52 (42.28%) Azure
2 26 (21.14%) Power Platform
3 23 (18.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.13%) AWS
6 10 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (8.13%) Serverless
7 9 (7.32%) Azure Functions
8 8 (6.50%) Power Automate
9 7 (5.69%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (5.69%) GitHub
9 7 (5.69%) SaaS
10 6 (4.88%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.88%) Boomi
10 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (4.07%) GCP
11 5 (4.07%) Nutanix
12 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
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 84 (68.29%) SQL Server
2 31 (25.20%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (17.07%) Power BI
4 19 (15.45%) Oracle Database
4 19 (15.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (10.57%) Data Lake
7 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
7 11 (8.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (8.13%) Metadata
9 9 (7.32%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.07%) Power Query
11 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (4.07%) Star Schema
12 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
12 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.44%) DataStage
13 3 (2.44%) WebFOCUS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Git
2 10 (8.13%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.44%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.63%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.81%) Appium
5 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
5 1 (0.81%) JMeter
5 1 (0.81%) Moq
5 1 (0.81%) NUnit
5 1 (0.81%) Poetry
5 1 (0.81%) Postman
5 1 (0.81%) Pylint
5 1 (0.81%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 37 (30.08%) Finance
2 31 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.20%) Banking
4 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.25%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Back Office
9 3 (2.44%) Front Office
10 2 (1.63%) Advertising
10 2 (1.63%) Law
11 1 (0.81%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.81%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Military
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (67.48%) Developer
2 25 (20.33%) C# Developer
3 17 (13.82%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.20%) .NET Developer
5 12 (9.76%) Integration Developer
5 12 (9.76%) SQL Developer
6 8 (6.50%) C# WCF Developer
6 8 (6.50%) C# WPF Developer
6 8 (6.50%) DBA
6 8 (6.50%) WCF Developer
6 8 (6.50%) WPF Developer
7 7 (5.69%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.69%) ETL Developer
7 7 (5.69%) Senior
8 6 (4.88%) Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.77%) .NET
2 26 (21.14%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.38%) WPF
3 14 (11.38%) XML
4 12 (9.76%) JSON
4 12 (9.76%) WinForms
5 11 (8.94%) WCF
6 10 (8.13%) PySpark
7 9 (7.32%) React
7 9 (7.32%) REST
7 9 (7.32%) SOAP
8 8 (6.50%) Kafka
8 8 (6.50%) Web Services
9 7 (5.69%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.88%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.88%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.07%) Middleware
11 5 (4.07%) RESTful
12 3 (2.44%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.25%) Data Fabric
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
3 3 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.63%) Clustering
4 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
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%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.95%) Windows
2 12 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.15%) CI/CD
2 40 (32.52%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (30.89%) ETL
4 37 (30.08%) Agile
4 37 (30.08%) DevOps
5 34 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (22.76%) Analytics
7 27 (21.95%) Data Analysis
8 26 (21.14%) Migration
9 25 (20.33%) Data Modelling
10 21 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (13.82%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (13.01%) Data Engineering
12 16 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (12.20%) Validation
14 13 (10.57%) OOP
15 12 (9.76%) Change Management
15 12 (9.76%) Data Migration
15 12 (9.76%) OO
15 12 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 114 (92.68%) SQL
2 53 (43.09%) C#
3 33 (26.83%) PL/SQL
4 29 (23.58%) Python
5 15 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.20%) VBA
6 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.32%) VB
7 7 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (5.69%) Java
8 6 (4.88%) Bicep
8 6 (4.88%) Groovy
9 5 (4.07%) X++
10 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.81%) Bash
11 1 (0.81%) Scala
11 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.63%) Degree
2 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) HP APS
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.81%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.33%) QA
2 17 (13.82%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.25%) MiFID
4 3 (2.44%) EMIR
4 3 (2.44%) GDPR
5 2 (1.63%) WCAG
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 8 (6.50%) 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 51 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 35 (28.46%) Oracle
3 19 (15.45%) Citrix
4 14 (11.38%) 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%) Okta
10 1 (0.81%) Sybase
10 1 (0.81%) Workday