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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 433 326
Rank change year-on-year +33 -107 -42
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 277 120 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.37% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.11% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 96 200
10th Percentile £352 £314 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -5.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £706 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +5.28% -5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £22.13 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.38 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £27.50 £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

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 14,088 10,788 12,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.72% 33.10% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,132 7,246 8,989
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.89% -1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 525 260 462
10th Percentile £34.01 £28.16 £30.69
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% +3.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +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 21 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 21 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 +37 244 £453 -9.40% 66
London -11 127 £491 -3.73% 21
UK excluding London -21 122 £421 +5.28% 51
Work from Home -15 80 £525 -4.55% 42
South East -22 49 £404 +15.36% 16
North of England -46 40 £405 +8.00% 12
North West -28 27 £403 +1.96% 7
Yorkshire -45 13 £450 +20.00% 5
Scotland -12 9 £470 +17.50% 2
South West -31 8 £425 -18.27% 6
Midlands -49 8 £425 - 9
West Midlands -50 7 £425 - 8
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -15 3 £313 +53.00% 1
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 31 (11.19%) IIS
2 20 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.53%) Confluence
4 6 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.81%) Appian
5 5 (1.81%) Camunda
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Apache
7 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.36%) Mule
8 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 53 (19.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.17%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.81%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.08%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.30%) Azure
2 80 (28.88%) Power Platform
3 38 (13.72%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.11%) AWS
6 26 (9.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.33%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.25%) PowerApps
9 9 (3.25%) Serverless
10 7 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (2.53%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.53%) GitHub
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.97%) Internet
2 5 (1.81%) SSL
3 4 (1.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) HTTP
4 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (69.31%) SQL Server
2 76 (27.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (24.19%) Power BI
4 53 (19.13%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (14.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 35 (12.64%) Oracle Database
7 27 (9.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (7.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (5.05%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.69%) MySQL
10 13 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.97%) MS Access
12 9 (3.25%) OLAP
13 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.53%) Tableau
14 6 (2.17%) Metadata
14 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.17%) Spark SQL
15 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (8.66%) Git
2 13 (4.69%) Team Foundation Server
2 13 (4.69%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.17%) JIRA
5 6 (2.17%) Mocha
5 6 (2.17%) MSTest
5 6 (2.17%) tSQLt
6 2 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.36%) ERwin
7 1 (0.36%) Moq
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 74 (26.71%) Finance
2 70 (25.27%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (14.44%) Banking
4 16 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.81%) Legal
6 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.44%) Advertising
8 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Law
8 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.72%) Billing
9 2 (0.72%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Games
10 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (40.07%) Developer
2 42 (15.16%) SQL Developer
3 38 (13.72%) Data Engineer
4 36 (13.00%) Consultant
5 34 (12.27%) C# Developer
6 29 (10.47%) DBA
7 28 (10.11%) Implementation Consultant
8 27 (9.75%) Senior
9 26 (9.39%) SQL DBA
10 24 (8.66%) .NET Developer
11 20 (7.22%) Lead
11 20 (7.22%) Microsoft Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) Payroll Consultant
13 12 (4.33%) Analyst
13 12 (4.33%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.97%) Lead Developer
14 11 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 10 (3.61%) C# .NET Developer
15 10 (3.61%) Senior Data Engineer
16 9 (3.25%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (31.05%) .NET
2 49 (17.69%) XML
3 40 (14.44%) .NET Framework
4 22 (7.94%) HTML
4 22 (7.94%) WinForms
5 21 (7.58%) ASP.NET
6 18 (6.50%) JSON
7 16 (5.78%) REST
8 15 (5.42%) CSS
9 14 (5.05%) XSLT
10 12 (4.33%) PySpark
10 12 (4.33%) React
10 12 (4.33%) WPF
11 10 (3.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (3.61%) RESTful
12 9 (3.25%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.25%) WCF
13 8 (2.89%) SOAP
13 8 (2.89%) SPFx
14 7 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.66%) Replication
2 16 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.05%) Clustering
4 10 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.25%) NHS
6 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.17%) Wiki
7 4 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.44%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.08%) Equities
8 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.72%) Derivative
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (21.66%) Windows
2 26 (9.39%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.25%) Linux
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) HPUX
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.85%) Business Intelligence
1 91 (32.85%) ETL
2 66 (23.83%) DevOps
3 61 (22.02%) Performance Tuning
4 56 (20.22%) Agile
5 51 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.69%) Data Modelling
7 47 (16.97%) Disaster Recovery
8 45 (16.25%) CI/CD
9 42 (15.16%) Migration
10 41 (14.80%) Data Analysis
11 37 (13.36%) Analytics
12 33 (11.91%) Workflow
13 32 (11.55%) AI
14 31 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
15 30 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (9.03%) Data Engineering
17 23 (8.30%) Change Management
17 23 (8.30%) Data Integration
17 23 (8.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 272 (98.19%) SQL
2 91 (32.85%) C#
3 73 (26.35%) PL/SQL
4 49 (17.69%) Python
5 31 (11.19%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.83%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.58%) VBA
8 17 (6.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (5.78%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.33%) VB
10 12 (4.33%) XPath
11 8 (2.89%) VBScript
12 7 (2.53%) Java
13 6 (2.17%) Bash
13 6 (2.17%) Bicep
14 2 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.36%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (11.55%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.94%) Degree
4 9 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.80%) Data Quality
2 40 (14.44%) QA
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) SCOM
1 5 (1.81%) Terraform
2 3 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Control-M
4 1 (0.36%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 70 (25.27%) Oracle
3 32 (11.55%) Citrix
4 17 (6.14%) Databricks
5 10 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.81%) Intapp
6 5 (1.81%) OpenText
6 5 (1.81%) RedGate
6 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.81%) Sybase
6 5 (1.81%) VMware
7 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.44%) Remedy
8 3 (1.08%) BMC
8 3 (1.08%) Google
8 3 (1.08%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.72%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.36%) Telerik
10 1 (0.36%) Teradata