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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 328 308
Rank change year-on-year -132 -20 -50
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 116 225 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.94% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 157 228
10th Percentile £313 £363 -
25th Percentile £377 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £478
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.95% +0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £673 £680 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -3.53% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,362 11,616 14,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.29% 32.05% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,482 7,476 10,388
10th Percentile £345 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 277 446
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £31.75
25th Percentile £44.75 £37.55 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £60.11
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +3.15% +0.18%
75th Percentile £67.92 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £75.00 £78.00
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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -123 103 £450 -14.29% 131
London -49 67 £428 -27.54% 58
Work from Home -31 39 £450 -2.70% 77
UK excluding London -80 37 £410 -3.53% 84
North of England -56 14 £390 -2.50% 22
North West -23 10 £420 -1.18% 8
Wales +1 7 £410 +154.66% 4
Midlands -33 7 £550 +22.22% 20
East Midlands -9 6 £550 +54.49% 10
South West +5 4 £520 +26.06% 12
Yorkshire -37 4 £375 +21.60% 10
Scotland +2 3 £700 +66.67% 4
South East -18 3 £375 -31.82% 16
East of England -19 1 - - 7
West Midlands -35 1 - - 9

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 13 (11.21%) IIS
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.86%) Appian
3 1 (0.86%) Camunda
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.59%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.59%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.59%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.97%) Azure
2 30 (25.86%) Power Platform
3 21 (18.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 19 (16.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.34%) Serverless
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Functions
6 11 (9.48%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (6.90%) AWS
7 8 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (6.03%) GitHub
8 7 (6.03%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.03%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.03%) SaaS
9 6 (5.17%) AtomSphere
9 6 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (5.17%) Boomi
10 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.31%) GCP
10 5 (4.31%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.34%) Internet
2 2 (1.72%) DHCP
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (72.41%) SQL Server
2 28 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (22.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 24 (20.69%) Power BI
5 21 (18.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (13.79%) Data Lake
7 15 (12.93%) Oracle Database
8 12 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (7.76%) Metadata
9 9 (7.76%) Relational Database
10 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.31%) WebFOCUS
12 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (3.45%) Power Query
12 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
12 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (2.59%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Git
2 6 (5.17%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.59%) ERwin
4 3 (2.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.72%) Postman
5 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.86%) Appium
6 1 (0.86%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.86%) GitLab
6 1 (0.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.86%) JMeter
6 1 (0.86%) Moq
6 1 (0.86%) Poetry
6 1 (0.86%) Pylint
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.86%) tSQLt
6 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (27.59%) Finance
2 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.34%) Banking
5 7 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.59%) Back Office
8 3 (2.59%) Front Office
9 2 (1.72%) Advertising
9 2 (1.72%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.86%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.86%) Law
10 1 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (67.24%) Developer
2 18 (15.52%) C# Developer
2 18 (15.52%) SQL Developer
3 12 (10.34%) .NET Developer
3 12 (10.34%) Integration Developer
4 11 (9.48%) C# WPF Developer
4 11 (9.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) WPF Developer
5 10 (8.62%) C# WCF Developer
5 10 (8.62%) DBA
5 10 (8.62%) WCF Developer
6 7 (6.03%) Analyst
7 6 (5.17%) Architect
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Architect
7 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.31%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (4.31%) ETL Developer
8 5 (4.31%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (32.76%) .NET
2 20 (17.24%) .NET Framework
3 16 (13.79%) XML
4 15 (12.93%) WPF
5 13 (11.21%) JSON
6 12 (10.34%) WCF
7 11 (9.48%) REST
8 10 (8.62%) Web Services
8 10 (8.62%) WinForms
9 9 (7.76%) SOAP
10 8 (6.90%) Kafka
11 7 (6.03%) React
12 6 (5.17%) .NET Core
12 6 (5.17%) PySpark
12 6 (5.17%) RESTful
13 5 (4.31%) ASP.NET
13 5 (4.31%) ASP.NET Web API
14 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.45%) Middleware
15 3 (2.59%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.17%) NHS
2 4 (3.45%) Clustering
2 4 (3.45%) Data Fabric
2 4 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.59%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.59%) Replication
3 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.86%) IoT
5 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.24%) Windows
2 4 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.03%) DevOps
1 36 (31.03%) ETL
2 34 (29.31%) CI/CD
3 33 (28.45%) Agile
3 33 (28.45%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (25.86%) Migration
4 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.55%) Analytics
5 25 (21.55%) Data Analysis
6 22 (18.97%) Data Modelling
7 19 (16.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.93%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (12.07%) Data Migration
9 14 (12.07%) Validation
10 13 (11.21%) Data Integration
10 13 (11.21%) Data Management
11 12 (10.34%) Data Engineering
12 11 (9.48%) Data Governance
12 11 (9.48%) Scrum
12 11 (9.48%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 108 (93.10%) SQL
2 44 (37.93%) C#
3 24 (20.69%) PL/SQL
4 21 (18.10%) Python
5 18 (15.52%) VBA
6 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.48%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.62%) VB
9 6 (5.17%) Bicep
9 6 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (5.17%) Groovy
9 6 (5.17%) Java
10 5 (4.31%) X++
11 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.86%) Bash
12 1 (0.86%) Korn
12 1 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (13.79%) Degree
2 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.59%) MCSE
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.86%) MCSA
9 1 (0.86%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.79%) QA
2 13 (11.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.45%) GDPR
3 4 (3.45%) MiFID
4 3 (2.59%) EMIR
4 3 (2.59%) HL7
5 2 (1.72%) WCAG
6 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.86%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Terraform
2 4 (3.45%) Control-M
2 4 (3.45%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 45 (38.79%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.41%) Oracle
3 12 (10.34%) Citrix
4 7 (6.03%) Databricks
4 7 (6.03%) VMware
5 5 (4.31%) EMC
6 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) CQG
7 3 (2.59%) Google
7 3 (2.59%) SAP
7 3 (2.59%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.72%) OpenText
8 2 (1.72%) RedGate
9 1 (0.86%) iManage
9 1 (0.86%) Northgate
9 1 (0.86%) Okta
9 1 (0.86%) Sybase
9 1 (0.86%) Workday