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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 426 353
Rank change year-on-year +28 -73 -61
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 269 108 252
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 1.04% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 85 189
10th Percentile £352 £355 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £710 £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 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 13,838 10,381 13,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.75% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,976 7,005 9,251
10th Percentile £358 £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 £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £720 £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 548 251 540
10th Percentile £34.09 £26.32 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £34.62 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +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 1 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 1 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 +24 245 £453 -7.08% 62
London -9 128 £492 -1.60% 21
UK excluding London -17 115 £421 +5.28% 56
Work from Home -11 72 £529 -11.28% 41
South East -14 51 £405 +15.71% 20
North of England -49 40 £405 +8.00% 21
North West -20 27 £403 +1.96% 12
Yorkshire -43 13 £450 +20.00% 8
South West -24 8 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -62 5 £400 -5.88% 3
Scotland -6 4 £475 +18.75% 2
West Midlands -51 4 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 4 £211 - 3
Wales -14 2 £313 +53.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 24 (8.92%) IIS
2 15 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.97%) Confluence
4 6 (2.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.86%) Appian
5 5 (1.86%) Camunda
6 3 (1.12%) Apache
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 48 (17.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.86%) Elite 3E
1 5 (1.86%) OpenText MBPM
1 5 (1.86%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.12%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.57%) Azure
2 82 (30.48%) Power Platform
3 39 (14.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (10.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.04%) AWS
7 12 (4.46%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.72%) Serverless
9 9 (3.35%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.23%) GitHub
12 5 (1.86%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.72%) Internet
2 5 (1.86%) SSL
3 4 (1.49%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (66.91%) SQL Server
2 70 (26.02%) Power BI
3 69 (25.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 51 (18.96%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 31 (11.52%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (6.32%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.83%) MySQL
10 13 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.97%) OLAP
12 7 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (2.60%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.23%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.23%) Tableau
14 5 (1.86%) DataStage
14 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.86%) MS Access
14 5 (1.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.06%) Git
2 11 (4.09%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.97%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.60%) JIRA
6 6 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.23%) Mocha
6 6 (2.23%) MSTest
6 6 (2.23%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
8 1 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 73 (27.14%) Finance
2 66 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.61%) Banking
4 37 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.86%) Legal
7 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Advertising
9 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Law
9 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 107 (39.78%) Developer
2 40 (14.87%) Data Engineer
3 39 (14.50%) SQL Developer
4 34 (12.64%) Consultant
5 33 (12.27%) C# Developer
6 28 (10.41%) Implementation Consultant
7 27 (10.04%) DBA
8 24 (8.92%) Senior
8 24 (8.92%) SQL DBA
9 23 (8.55%) Microsoft Engineer
10 19 (7.06%) .NET Developer
11 16 (5.95%) Lead
12 13 (4.83%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.46%) Analyst
14 10 (3.72%) SQL Server DBA
15 9 (3.35%) Database Developer
16 8 (2.97%) Workflow Consultant
17 7 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 7 (2.60%) C# Application Developer
17 7 (2.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (29.74%) .NET
2 42 (15.61%) XML
3 41 (15.24%) .NET Framework
4 17 (6.32%) REST
5 16 (5.95%) CSS
5 16 (5.95%) HTML
6 15 (5.58%) PySpark
6 15 (5.58%) WinForms
7 14 (5.20%) ASP.NET
8 13 (4.83%) JSON
8 13 (4.83%) React
9 11 (4.09%) RESTful
9 11 (4.09%) WPF
10 9 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.35%) XSLT
11 8 (2.97%) SOAP
11 8 (2.97%) SPFx
12 7 (2.60%) Web Services
13 6 (2.23%) jQuery
14 5 (1.86%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.32%) Replication
2 15 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.20%) Clustering
4 11 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.97%) NHS
6 6 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.23%) Wiki
7 5 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.12%) Equities
9 3 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (19.33%) Windows
2 25 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.60%) Linux
4 4 (1.49%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.32%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (34.94%) ETL
3 60 (22.30%) DevOps
4 57 (21.19%) Agile
4 57 (21.19%) Performance Tuning
5 52 (19.33%) Data Modelling
6 50 (18.59%) CI/CD
7 49 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (17.10%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (16.73%) Analytics
10 41 (15.24%) Data Analysis
11 40 (14.87%) Migration
12 33 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.27%) Workflow
13 31 (11.52%) AI
14 28 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.04%) Unit Testing
16 26 (9.67%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.92%) Change Management
18 23 (8.55%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 264 (98.14%) SQL
2 84 (31.23%) C#
3 67 (24.91%) PL/SQL
4 52 (19.33%) Python
5 31 (11.52%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (5.20%) VBA
9 11 (4.09%) VB
10 10 (3.72%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.60%) XPath
12 6 (2.23%) Bash
12 6 (2.23%) Bicep
13 5 (1.86%) Java
14 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.12%) VBScript
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.55%) Degree
4 9 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.99%) Data Quality
2 41 (15.24%) QA
3 6 (2.23%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.23%) Terraform
2 5 (1.86%) SCOM
3 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 110 (40.89%) Microsoft
2 61 (22.68%) Oracle
3 32 (11.90%) Citrix
4 22 (8.18%) Databricks
5 10 (3.72%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.86%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.86%) Intapp
6 5 (1.86%) OpenText
6 5 (1.86%) Sybase
6 5 (1.86%) VMware
7 4 (1.49%) Remedy
8 3 (1.12%) BMC
8 3 (1.12%) RedGate
8 3 (1.12%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.12%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.74%) Google
9 2 (0.74%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.37%) Telerik
10 1 (0.37%) Teradata