T-SQL Contract Job Trends

Transact-SQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing T-SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 456 334
Rank change year-on-year 0 -122 -35
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 253 111 245
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.33% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.02% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 88 175
10th Percentile £350 £300 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £624
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £410 £429
% change year-on-year +6.71% -4.43% -9.68%
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 citing coding skills.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills 14,621 10,918 11,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 26.50% 32.58% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,516 7,162 7,751
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 304 312
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £25.33
25th Percentile £44.50 £41.77 £40.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.09% +1.20%
75th Percentile £70.88 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £78.03 £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 23 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 23 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 208 £453 +0.67% 149
London -31 123 £475 +5.56% 58
UK excluding London -37 93 £438 +6.71% 86
Work from Home -31 81 £500 +11.11% 78
North of England -44 37 £403 +3.21% 26
North West -35 26 £405 -3.57% 12
South East -40 21 £475 +26.67% 22
Scotland -15 15 £475 -32.14% 2
Yorkshire -29 11 £400 +6.67% 12
Midlands -37 10 £413 -11.76% 23
West Midlands -36 9 £413 - 18
South West -35 5 £750 +44.23% 6
Wales -13 3 £313 -23.78%
East of England -28 1 £425 - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

T-SQL Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SQL98.8%250
2C#36.0%91
3PL/SQL22.5%57
4Python19.8%50
5PowerShell13.8%35
6JavaScript11.5%29
7VBA8.3%21
8VB.NET5.9%15
9Data Analysis Expressions5.1%13
10VB4.7%12
10XPath4.7%12
12Bash3.6%9
12Shell Script3.6%9
14VBScript3.2%8
15Java2.8%7
16TypeScript2.0%5
17Scala0.8%2
18R0.4%1
18Ruby0.4%1
18Tcl0.4%1