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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 426 350
Rank change year-on-year +35 -76 -56
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 258 103 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.34% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.01% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 79 189
10th Percentile £366 £343 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +14.25%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £588
90th Percentile £678 £678 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £393 £433
% change year-on-year +7.29% -9.35% -7.13%
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% -82.56%
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% -87.36%

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 13,705 10,225 13,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.93% 33.95% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,915 6,922 9,291
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 240 548
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.70 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.11 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £60.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.00% -6.54% +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 25 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 25 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 +17 237 £463 +1.37% 61
London -5 128 £496 +3.06% 21
UK excluding London -41 106 £421 +7.29% 49
Work from Home -12 70 £550 -7.17% 39
South East -13 51 £405 +15.71% 16
North of England -57 31 £403 +7.40% 22
North West -25 22 £403 +1.96% 13
Yorkshire -51 9 £408 +8.67% 8
South West -38 8 £475 -8.65% 4
Midlands -64 5 £400 -5.88% 3
Scotland -10 4 £475 - 2
West Midlands -57 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -12 2 £313 +53.00%
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 23 (8.91%) IIS
2 13 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.94%) Appian
4 5 (1.94%) Camunda
5 4 (1.55%) Confluence
6 3 (1.16%) Apache
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.39%) Mule
8 1 (0.39%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 45 (17.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.94%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.94%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.94%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.16%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.39%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 88 (34.11%) Azure
2 78 (30.23%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 32 (12.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 25 (9.69%) AWS
6 23 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (4.65%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.88%) Serverless
9 9 (3.49%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
11 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (1.16%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) HTTP
2 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (65.12%) SQL Server
2 66 (25.58%) Power BI
3 63 (24.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 49 (18.99%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (15.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (12.40%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (8.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (6.98%) Data Lake
10 13 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.10%) MySQL
11 8 (3.10%) OLAP
11 8 (3.10%) Spark SQL
12 7 (2.71%) Power Query
13 6 (2.33%) DataStage
13 6 (2.33%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.33%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.33%) Tableau
14 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (6.59%) Git
2 11 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.33%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.33%) JIRA
5 6 (2.33%) Mocha
5 6 (2.33%) MSTest
5 6 (2.33%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.39%) ERwin
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) Moq
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 72 (27.91%) Finance
2 62 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.50%) Banking
4 34 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.94%) Legal
7 5 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.55%) Advertising
9 3 (1.16%) Law
9 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 103 (39.92%) Developer
2 43 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 38 (14.73%) SQL Developer
4 34 (13.18%) Consultant
5 33 (12.79%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.85%) Implementation Consultant
7 24 (9.30%) Microsoft Engineer
7 24 (9.30%) Senior
8 22 (8.53%) DBA
9 19 (7.36%) SQL DBA
10 18 (6.98%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.04%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.65%) Lead
13 10 (3.88%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.49%) Analyst
15 8 (3.10%) Database Developer
15 8 (3.10%) Integration Engineer
15 8 (3.10%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.71%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (27.91%) .NET
2 41 (15.89%) .NET Framework
2 41 (15.89%) XML
3 17 (6.59%) PySpark
3 17 (6.59%) REST
4 16 (6.20%) CSS
5 15 (5.81%) HTML
6 13 (5.04%) WinForms
7 12 (4.65%) JSON
7 12 (4.65%) React
8 11 (4.26%) RESTful
8 11 (4.26%) WPF
9 10 (3.88%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.10%) SOAP
10 8 (3.10%) SPFx
10 8 (3.10%) XSLT
11 6 (2.33%) Web Services
12 5 (1.94%) Entity Framework
12 5 (1.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.04%) Replication
3 10 (3.88%) Clustering
3 10 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.10%) NHS
5 6 (2.33%) Wiki
6 5 (1.94%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.55%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.16%) Equities
8 3 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.78%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.39%) Derivative
10 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (18.22%) Windows
2 22 (8.53%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.71%) Linux
4 4 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (0.78%) HPUX
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.82%) ETL
2 91 (35.27%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (20.54%) Agile
3 53 (20.54%) Data Modelling
3 53 (20.54%) DevOps
4 52 (20.16%) Performance Tuning
5 49 (18.99%) CI/CD
6 48 (18.60%) Analytics
7 47 (18.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (15.89%) Data Analysis
10 39 (15.12%) Migration
11 35 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (11.63%) AI
13 29 (11.24%) Workflow
14 27 (10.47%) Unit Testing
15 26 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (10.08%) Data Engineering
16 25 (9.69%) Change Management
17 23 (8.91%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 253 (98.06%) SQL
2 75 (29.07%) C#
3 65 (25.19%) PL/SQL
4 55 (21.32%) Python
5 29 (11.24%) PowerShell
6 25 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.04%) VBA
9 11 (4.26%) VB
10 8 (3.10%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.33%) Bash
11 6 (2.33%) Bicep
11 6 (2.33%) XPath
12 5 (1.94%) Java
13 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.78%) VBScript
15 1 (0.39%) C
15 1 (0.39%) C++
15 1 (0.39%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (9.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.59%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.94%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 42 (16.28%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS
5 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Terraform
2 3 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.16%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 102 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 61 (23.64%) Oracle
3 33 (12.79%) Citrix
4 26 (10.08%) Databricks
5 6 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.94%) Intapp
6 5 (1.94%) OpenText
6 5 (1.94%) Sybase
6 5 (1.94%) VMware
7 4 (1.55%) Remedy
8 3 (1.16%) BMC
8 3 (1.16%) RedGate
8 3 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.16%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.78%) Google
9 2 (0.78%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.39%) Telerik
10 1 (0.39%) Teradata