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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 417 347
Rank change year-on-year +3 -70 -52
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 243 106 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.84% 1.07% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 82 187
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £588
90th Percentile £668 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +5.28% -13.51% -2.63%
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 13,188 9,880 12,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.85% 34.15% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,621 6,689 9,138
10th Percentile £358 £356 £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 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £757 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +1.39% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 229 521
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £34.48 £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 £79.00 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -

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 5 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 5 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 +18 222 £453 -9.50% 84
London -14 115 £475 -5.00% 27
UK excluding London -34 106 £421 +5.28% 64
Work from Home -9 64 £523 -5.00% 42
South East -14 53 £411 -6.03% 21
North of England -61 30 £405 +8.00% 17
North West -22 21 £405 -14.74% 9
Yorkshire -48 9 £408 +8.67% 5
South West -24 7 £475 -9.09% 11
Scotland -5 4 £470 - 2
Midlands -55 4 £398 -3.64% 6
East of England - 4 £211 - 7
West Midlands -56 3 £398 -6.47% 4
Wales -19 2 £313 +53.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 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 21 (8.64%) IIS
2 12 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.23%) Apache
4 3 (1.23%) Appian
4 3 (1.23%) Camunda
4 3 (1.23%) 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 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.23%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (1.23%) 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 88 (36.21%) Azure
2 72 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 44 (18.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (14.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.05%) AWS
7 12 (4.94%) Power Automate
8 11 (4.53%) Serverless
9 10 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.29%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.88%) GitHub
12 6 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
14 3 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.53%) 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
1 158 (65.02%) SQL Server
2 60 (24.69%) Power BI
2 60 (24.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 44 (18.11%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (14.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 30 (12.35%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 21 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (8.64%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.12%) Spark SQL
9 8 (3.29%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.88%) Power Query
10 7 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.47%) DataStage
11 6 (2.47%) Metadata
11 6 (2.47%) MySQL
11 6 (2.47%) Tableau
12 5 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.06%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Git
2 11 (4.53%) Visual Studio
3 8 (3.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (2.47%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.47%) JIRA
5 6 (2.47%) Mocha
5 6 (2.47%) MSTest
5 6 (2.47%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.82%) Postman
7 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.41%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) GitLab
7 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.41%) Moq
7 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 65 (26.75%) Finance
2 54 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.99%) Banking
4 32 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.06%) Legal
8 4 (1.65%) Advertising
9 3 (1.23%) Law
9 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
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 88 (36.21%) Developer
2 41 (16.87%) Data Engineer
3 35 (14.40%) Consultant
4 31 (12.76%) C# Developer
4 31 (12.76%) SQL Developer
5 29 (11.93%) Implementation Consultant
6 24 (9.88%) Microsoft Engineer
7 20 (8.23%) Senior
8 19 (7.82%) DBA
9 17 (7.00%) SQL DBA
10 15 (6.17%) .NET Developer
11 13 (5.35%) Payroll Consultant
12 10 (4.12%) Analyst
12 10 (4.12%) Architect
13 9 (3.70%) Database Developer
13 9 (3.70%) Lead
14 8 (3.29%) C# Application Developer
14 8 (3.29%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.29%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.29%) Workflow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.93%) .NET
2 38 (15.64%) .NET Framework
3 36 (14.81%) XML
4 16 (6.58%) CSS
4 16 (6.58%) PySpark
5 15 (6.17%) HTML
6 14 (5.76%) REST
7 13 (5.35%) JSON
8 12 (4.94%) WinForms
9 11 (4.53%) React
9 11 (4.53%) RESTful
9 11 (4.53%) WPF
10 8 (3.29%) SPFx
11 7 (2.88%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.88%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.06%) Entity Framework
12 5 (2.06%) Kafka
12 5 (2.06%) SOAP
12 5 (2.06%) XSLT
12 5 (2.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.76%) Replication
1 14 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.12%) Clustering
4 7 (2.88%) NHS
5 6 (2.47%) Wiki
6 5 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.65%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.23%) Equities
8 3 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.41%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.41%) Derivative
10 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Life Science
10 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (18.52%) Windows
2 21 (8.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.88%) Linux
4 4 (1.65%) 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 87 (35.80%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (35.39%) ETL
3 51 (20.99%) Data Modelling
4 49 (20.16%) DevOps
5 48 (19.75%) Analytics
6 47 (19.34%) Agile
6 47 (19.34%) CI/CD
7 46 (18.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
9 41 (16.87%) Migration
10 40 (16.46%) Data Analysis
11 35 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.70%) AI
14 25 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.29%) Unit Testing
15 24 (9.88%) Change Management
15 24 (9.88%) Data Engineering
15 24 (9.88%) Workflow
16 21 (8.64%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 238 (97.94%) SQL
2 67 (27.57%) C#
3 63 (25.93%) PL/SQL
4 56 (23.05%) Python
5 29 (11.93%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.05%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (5.35%) VBA
9 12 (4.94%) VB
10 6 (2.47%) Bash
10 6 (2.47%) Bicep
11 5 (2.06%) Java
11 5 (2.06%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.23%) 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 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.17%) Degree
4 8 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.06%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.11%) Data Quality
2 42 (17.28%) QA
3 5 (2.06%) 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 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (2.88%) Terraform
2 3 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.23%) 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 96 (39.51%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.87%) Oracle
3 31 (12.76%) Citrix
4 28 (11.52%) Databricks
5 6 (2.47%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.47%) VMware
6 5 (2.06%) Sybase
7 4 (1.65%) Remedy
8 3 (1.23%) BMC
8 3 (1.23%) OpenText
8 3 (1.23%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.82%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.82%) Google
9 2 (0.82%) Informatica
9 2 (0.82%) Intapp
9 2 (0.82%) NetCracker
9 2 (0.82%) RedGate
9 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.41%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry