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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 438 343
Rank change year-on-year +39 -95 -56
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 278 112 262
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.34% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.03% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 89 199
10th Percentile £356 £343 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £673 £695 £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 14,174 10,875 13,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.90% 33.28% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,205 7,329 9,262
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 540 267 519
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.76 £31.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.13 £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 £80.28 £79.22 £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 13 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 13 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 +18 245 £453 -9.40% 93
London -7 130 £492 -1.60% 27
UK excluding London -9 119 £421 +5.28% 77
Work from Home -15 76 £525 -11.39% 61
South East -24 51 £405 +15.71% 20
North of England -49 40 £405 +8.00% 29
North West -33 27 £403 +1.96% 19
Yorkshire -44 13 £450 +20.00% 8
Scotland -11 8 £475 +18.75% 3
South West -27 7 £425 -18.27% 6
Midlands -53 5 £400 -5.88% 14
West Midlands -64 4 £400 -5.88% 12
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 31 (11.15%) IIS
2 20 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.88%) Confluence
4 6 (2.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.80%) Appian
5 5 (1.80%) Camunda
6 3 (1.08%) Apache
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 52 (18.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.16%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.16%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.80%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.08%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 96 (34.53%) Azure
2 80 (28.78%) Power Platform
3 36 (12.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.07%) AWS
6 25 (8.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.32%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.60%) Serverless
9 9 (3.24%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.52%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.52%) GitHub
11 6 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.60%) Internet
2 5 (1.80%) SSL
3 4 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (69.06%) SQL Server
2 73 (26.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (24.10%) Power BI
4 52 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (14.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (11.87%) Oracle Database
7 27 (9.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (5.40%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.68%) MySQL
10 13 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.96%) MS Access
12 9 (3.24%) OLAP
13 7 (2.52%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.52%) Tableau
14 6 (2.16%) Metadata
14 6 (2.16%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (8.99%) Git
2 16 (5.76%) Visual Studio
3 13 (4.68%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (3.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.52%) JIRA
6 6 (2.16%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.16%) Mocha
6 6 (2.16%) MSTest
6 6 (2.16%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 2 (0.72%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.36%) Moq
8 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 75 (26.98%) Finance
2 67 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.75%) Banking
4 40 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.80%) Legal
7 5 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.44%) Advertising
9 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.08%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Billing
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (40.65%) Developer
2 41 (14.75%) SQL Developer
3 38 (13.67%) Data Engineer
4 35 (12.59%) C# Developer
4 35 (12.59%) Consultant
5 28 (10.07%) DBA
5 28 (10.07%) Implementation Consultant
6 26 (9.35%) Senior
7 25 (8.99%) SQL DBA
8 23 (8.27%) .NET Developer
9 21 (7.55%) Lead
10 20 (7.19%) Microsoft Engineer
11 13 (4.68%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.32%) Analyst
13 11 (3.96%) Lead Developer
13 11 (3.96%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.96%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.24%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (3.24%) Database Developer
14 9 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (31.65%) .NET
2 49 (17.63%) XML
3 42 (15.11%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.91%) HTML
5 21 (7.55%) ASP.NET
5 21 (7.55%) WinForms
6 19 (6.83%) JSON
7 17 (6.12%) REST
8 16 (5.76%) CSS
9 14 (5.04%) XSLT
10 13 (4.68%) PySpark
10 13 (4.68%) React
11 11 (3.96%) RESTful
11 11 (3.96%) WPF
12 10 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (3.24%) AngularJS
13 9 (3.24%) WCF
14 8 (2.88%) SOAP
14 8 (2.88%) SPFx
15 7 (2.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.27%) Replication
2 16 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.04%) Clustering
4 10 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.24%) NHS
6 6 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.16%) Wiki
7 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.44%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Equities
8 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.36%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.94%) Windows
2 28 (10.07%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.24%) Linux
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) 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 91 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
2 90 (32.37%) ETL
3 65 (23.38%) DevOps
4 60 (21.58%) Performance Tuning
5 57 (20.50%) Agile
6 51 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (17.27%) CI/CD
7 48 (17.27%) Data Modelling
7 48 (17.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (15.11%) Data Analysis
9 41 (14.75%) Migration
10 39 (14.03%) Analytics
11 34 (12.23%) AI
12 33 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (11.87%) Workflow
13 31 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (9.35%) Unit Testing
15 25 (8.99%) Change Management
16 24 (8.63%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.27%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 273 (98.20%) SQL
2 93 (33.45%) C#
3 74 (26.62%) PL/SQL
4 51 (18.35%) Python
5 31 (11.15%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.43%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.19%) VBA
8 17 (6.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.76%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.32%) XPath
11 11 (3.96%) VB
12 8 (2.88%) VBScript
13 7 (2.52%) Java
14 6 (2.16%) Bash
14 6 (2.16%) Bicep
15 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.72%) Scala
17 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
17 1 (0.36%) Groovy
17 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.63%) Degree
4 9 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.80%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.11%) QA
2 41 (14.75%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.16%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.16%) Terraform
2 5 (1.80%) SCOM
3 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.08%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Control-M
5 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 111 (39.93%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.18%) Oracle
3 33 (11.87%) Citrix
4 17 (6.12%) Databricks
5 10 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.80%) Intapp
6 5 (1.80%) OpenText
6 5 (1.80%) Sybase
6 5 (1.80%) VMware
7 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.44%) RedGate
7 4 (1.44%) Remedy
7 4 (1.44%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.08%) BMC
8 3 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (1.08%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata