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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 459 316
Rank change year-on-year +15 -143 -14
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 252 99 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 0.92% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 83 182
10th Percentile £365 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £725 £670 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +6.71% -3.53% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile £21.25 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.75 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +112.73%

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 14,310 10,758 12,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.22% 32.67% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,290 7,068 7,925
10th Percentile £363 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £733 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 299 321
10th Percentile £21.55 £29.00 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.63 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £77.75 £75.00
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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -9 208 £453 +0.67% 174
London -28 121 £464 +4.27% 82
UK excluding London -35 96 £438 +6.71% 92
Work from Home -16 76 £513 +19.19% 80
North of England -35 39 £428 +9.62% 23
North West -25 28 £475 +13.10% 11
South East -45 22 £475 +26.67% 30
Scotland -9 15 £475 -32.14% 5
Yorkshire -21 11 £400 +6.67% 11
Midlands -35 10 £413 -11.76% 17
West Midlands -36 9 £413 - 13
South West -30 5 £750 +44.23% 4
Wales -19 3 £313 -38.12% 1
East of England -23 1 £425 - 13
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 26 (10.32%) IIS
2 20 (7.94%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.97%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Appian
4 5 (1.98%) Camunda
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 30 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.19%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.11%) Azure
2 75 (29.76%) Power Platform
3 31 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (9.52%) AWS
6 14 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.57%) GitHub
9 8 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.78%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.78%) GCP
10 7 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.78%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.38%) Serverless
12 4 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) SSL
2 9 (3.57%) Internet
3 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DNS
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 2 (0.79%) PABX
4 2 (0.79%) VLAN
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (75.79%) SQL Server
2 69 (27.38%) Power BI
3 68 (26.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 43 (17.06%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (12.70%) Oracle Database
6 26 (10.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (7.54%) MySQL
9 13 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (5.16%) Relational Database
10 10 (3.97%) MS Access
10 10 (3.97%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.57%) Tableau
12 7 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.98%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.98%) OLAP
13 5 (1.98%) Power Query
13 5 (1.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (11.51%) Git
2 11 (4.37%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.37%) Visual Studio
3 9 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (3.17%) JIRA
4 8 (3.17%) tSQLt
5 7 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.19%) GitLab
6 3 (1.19%) Mocha
6 3 (1.19%) MSTest
6 3 (1.19%) Subversion
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Moq
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (27.38%) Finance
2 67 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.89%) Banking
5 11 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.57%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Publishing
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 102 (40.48%) Developer
2 35 (13.89%) Data Engineer
3 34 (13.49%) SQL Developer
4 32 (12.70%) DBA
4 32 (12.70%) Senior
5 28 (11.11%) SQL DBA
6 27 (10.71%) Lead
7 26 (10.32%) C# Developer
8 21 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 21 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Engineer
10 13 (5.16%) Lead Developer
11 11 (4.37%) SQL Server DBA
12 10 (3.97%) Analyst
12 10 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (3.97%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.97%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.97%) SQL Server Developer
13 8 (3.17%) C# .NET Developer
13 8 (3.17%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (36.51%) .NET
2 31 (12.30%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.73%) ASP.NET
4 20 (7.94%) WinForms
4 20 (7.94%) XML
5 17 (6.75%) HTML
6 14 (5.56%) JSON
6 14 (5.56%) XSLT
7 12 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.76%) Web Services
8 11 (4.37%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (4.37%) PySpark
8 11 (4.37%) REST
8 11 (4.37%) SOAP
9 10 (3.97%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.97%) React
9 10 (3.97%) WPF
10 9 (3.57%) CSS
10 9 (3.57%) WCF
11 8 (3.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.73%) Replication
2 16 (6.35%) Clustering
3 14 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.98%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.98%) NHS
7 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) Equities
9 2 (0.79%) Handset
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.95%) Windows
2 44 (17.46%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.76%) Linux
4 7 (2.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.75%) Business Intelligence
2 76 (30.16%) ETL
3 68 (26.98%) DevOps
4 64 (25.40%) Performance Tuning
5 53 (21.03%) CI/CD
6 51 (20.24%) Data Modelling
7 50 (19.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (19.05%) Agile
9 40 (15.87%) Data Analysis
10 35 (13.89%) AI
10 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (12.70%) Migration
12 25 (9.92%) Lakehouse
12 25 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (9.13%) Data Integration
13 23 (9.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (9.13%) Workflow
14 22 (8.73%) Change Management
14 22 (8.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 249 (98.81%) SQL
2 93 (36.90%) C#
3 61 (24.21%) PL/SQL
4 49 (19.44%) Python
5 32 (12.70%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.33%) VBA
8 15 (5.95%) VB.NET
9 14 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (4.76%) VB
10 12 (4.76%) XPath
11 8 (3.17%) VBScript
12 7 (2.78%) Bash
12 7 (2.78%) Java
12 7 (2.78%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.79%) Scala
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Ruby
15 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.32%) Degree
4 14 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) CISA
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.68%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.92%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.79%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.38%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.76%) SCOM
2 3 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Control-M
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Puppet
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 107 (42.46%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.37%) Oracle
3 24 (9.52%) Citrix
4 19 (7.54%) Databricks
5 16 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.38%) Intapp
6 6 (2.38%) RedGate
6 6 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.38%) Sybase
7 5 (1.98%) OpenText
8 4 (1.59%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.59%) Google
9 3 (1.19%) BMC
9 3 (1.19%) eFront
9 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.19%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) Informatica
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.79%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Northgate