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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 381 340
Rank change year-on-year -71 -41 -60
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 141 154 275
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.48% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 99 172
10th Percentile £358 £319 £363
25th Percentile £404 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £588 £569 £585
90th Percentile £660 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £27.82 £9.19
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £13.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £18.41
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +165.68% -47.41%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £23.29
90th Percentile - - £25.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £16.11
% change year-on-year -44.79% +203.57% -53.97%

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 12,058 10,396 13,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.18% 33.64% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,013 6,637 9,362
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -1.44% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 233 508
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.40 £35.52
25th Percentile £52.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -3.85%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -97 124 £415 -12.63% 80
London -5 82 £415 -17.00% 13
Work from Home -27 47 £550 +19.57% 47
UK excluding London -102 43 £463 +2.78% 79
North of England -70 12 £402 +12.92% 19
South East -49 10 £525 -8.70% 26
North West -30 8 £426 +26.04% 12
South West -18 6 £550 +4.76% 5
Wales 0 5 £600 +272.67% 3
Yorkshire -68 4 £375 - 6
Scotland +5 3 £700 +105.58%
East Midlands -28 3 £550 +54.49% 8
Midlands -68 3 £550 +29.41% 20
East of England - 3 £211 - 8
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 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 19 (13.48%) IIS
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.71%) Mule
3 1 (0.71%) OpenEdge
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (11.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.42%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (47.52%) Azure
2 38 (26.95%) Power Platform
3 37 (26.24%) Azure Data Factory
3 37 (26.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 27 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.80%) GitHub
6 10 (7.09%) AWS
6 10 (7.09%) Serverless
7 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (5.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (4.96%) SaaS
10 6 (4.26%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.26%) Azure Functions
10 6 (4.26%) Boomi
11 5 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.84%) GCP
13 3 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) Internet
2 3 (2.13%) DHCP
2 3 (2.13%) DNS
2 3 (2.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) HTTP
3 1 (0.71%) LAN
3 1 (0.71%) VPN
3 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (67.38%) SQL Server
2 39 (27.66%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (26.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (23.40%) Power BI
5 24 (17.02%) Oracle Database
6 22 (15.60%) Data Lake
7 19 (13.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (12.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 16 (11.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (7.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (5.67%) Power Query
12 7 (4.96%) Metadata
12 7 (4.96%) Relational Database
13 6 (4.26%) Star Schema
14 5 (3.55%) DataStage
14 5 (3.55%) Delta Lake
14 5 (3.55%) Spark SQL
15 3 (2.13%) Data Vault
15 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
15 3 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (12.06%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) Visual Studio
3 6 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.13%) JIRA
5 2 (1.42%) Postman
5 2 (1.42%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.71%) Appium
6 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.71%) GitLab
6 1 (0.71%) Mocha
6 1 (0.71%) MSTest
6 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.71%) Poetry
6 1 (0.71%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.71%) tSQLt
General
1 40 (28.37%) Finance
2 33 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.31%) Banking
4 20 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Law
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (55.32%) Developer
2 34 (24.11%) Data Engineer
3 32 (22.70%) C# Developer
4 15 (10.64%) SQL Developer
5 10 (7.09%) .NET Developer
5 10 (7.09%) Architect
6 9 (6.38%) Integration Developer
7 8 (5.67%) Azure Developer
7 8 (5.67%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.67%) Senior
8 7 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Database Developer
8 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (4.26%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (4.26%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.26%) T-SQL Developer
9 6 (4.26%) WCF Developer
9 6 (4.26%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.21%) .NET
2 32 (22.70%) .NET Framework
3 18 (12.77%) PySpark
4 17 (12.06%) WPF
5 15 (10.64%) WinForms
6 13 (9.22%) JSON
7 11 (7.80%) XML
8 10 (7.09%) REST
8 10 (7.09%) SOAP
9 9 (6.38%) WCF
10 8 (5.67%) React
11 7 (4.96%) YAML
12 6 (4.26%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
13 5 (3.55%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (3.55%) Middleware
14 4 (2.84%) ADO
14 4 (2.84%) CSS
15 3 (2.13%) HTML
15 3 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) Replication
2 6 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.55%) Wiki
4 4 (2.84%) NHS
5 3 (2.13%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.42%) Clustering
6 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.42%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.71%) Equities
7 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (26.95%) Windows
2 19 (13.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.42%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) VMS
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (47.52%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (34.75%) CI/CD
2 49 (34.75%) ETL
3 43 (30.50%) DevOps
4 41 (29.08%) Agile
5 39 (27.66%) Analytics
6 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (24.11%) Data Modelling
8 28 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (18.44%) Data Analysis
9 26 (18.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (17.02%) Migration
11 23 (16.31%) Data Engineering
12 19 (13.48%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (12.06%) Data Governance
13 17 (12.06%) Unit Testing
14 16 (11.35%) Dimensional Modelling
15 15 (10.64%) Change Management
15 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (10.64%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 131 (92.91%) SQL
2 55 (39.01%) C#
3 48 (34.04%) PL/SQL
4 40 (28.37%) Python
5 15 (10.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 14 (9.93%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.22%) VBA
8 12 (8.51%) VB
9 9 (6.38%) Java
10 7 (4.96%) Bicep
10 7 (4.96%) Groovy
11 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.13%) X++
13 2 (1.42%) Bash
14 1 (0.71%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.71%) Scala
14 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (14.18%) Degree
2 17 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.38%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) HP APS
7 1 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (26.95%) QA
2 22 (15.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) MiFID
4 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.42%) Grafana
2 2 (1.42%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.71%) Control-M
3 1 (0.71%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (45.39%) Microsoft
2 44 (31.21%) Oracle
3 28 (19.86%) Databricks
4 27 (19.15%) Citrix
5 8 (5.67%) VMware
6 4 (2.84%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.13%) Google
7 3 (2.13%) SAP
8 2 (1.42%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.42%) Informatica
8 2 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.42%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.42%) Sybase
9 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.71%) Okta
9 1 (0.71%) Sage
9 1 (0.71%) Splunk
9 1 (0.71%) Workday