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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 376 351
Rank change year-on-year -60 -25 -78
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 180 143 265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.41% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 100 170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £404 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £584 £606 £576
90th Percentile £638 £689 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.82 £7.85
25th Percentile £26.50 £30.17 £9.78
Median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
Median % change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -74.99%
75th Percentile £27.50 £65.00 £18.76
90th Percentile - - £20.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £48.91 £14.28
% change year-on-year -44.79% +242.53% -74.99%

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 12,479 10,127 13,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 34.25% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,312 6,671 9,165
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.75%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £719 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.15% - -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 244 512
10th Percentile £41.94 £21.25 £30.69
25th Percentile £54.14 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +2.81% -4.62%

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 10 March 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 16 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 10 March 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 -54 165 £425 -12.82% 103
London -25 88 £415 -20.95% 24
UK excluding London -65 74 £425 +6.25% 100
Work from Home -29 52 £550 +15.79% 44
South East -29 33 £481 -8.33% 20
North of England -56 20 £450 +26.40% 16
North West -24 16 £426 +26.04% 10
South West -21 6 £525 - 26
Midlands -70 5 £400 +5.82% 19
Yorkshire -58 4 £600 +60.00% 4
Wales -3 3 £410 +150.71% 3
East Midlands -30 3 £550 +55.81% 8
East of England - 3 £211 - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
West Midlands -62 2 £398 -16.32% 11
Scotland +5 1 - - 11

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 21 (11.67%) IIS
2 3 (1.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Mule
4 1 (0.56%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 39 (21.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) InDesign
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.11%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.56%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.22%) Azure
2 41 (22.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 40 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 36 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 30 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (6.67%) AWS
7 10 (5.56%) Serverless
8 9 (5.00%) GitHub
9 8 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (3.89%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.89%) SaaS
11 6 (3.33%) AtomSphere
11 6 (3.33%) Boomi
12 5 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) Internet
2 2 (1.11%) DHCP
2 2 (1.11%) DNS
2 2 (1.11%) HTTP
2 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.56%) LAN
3 1 (0.56%) SMTP
3 1 (0.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 43 (23.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 40 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (18.89%) Power BI
5 26 (14.44%) Oracle Database
6 20 (11.11%) Data Lake
7 19 (10.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 18 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.89%) Power Query
11 6 (3.33%) Metadata
11 6 (3.33%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.33%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.78%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.78%) Spark SQL
13 4 (2.22%) DataStage
14 3 (1.67%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.33%) Git
1 15 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 7 (3.89%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.67%) JIRA
4 3 (1.67%) Mocha
4 3 (1.67%) MSTest
4 3 (1.67%) Postman
4 3 (1.67%) tSQLt
5 2 (1.11%) GitLab
5 2 (1.11%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.56%) Appium
6 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 47 (26.11%) Finance
2 36 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.22%) Banking
4 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.67%) Law
8 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Local Government
9 1 (0.56%) Military
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (46.11%) Developer
2 36 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 33 (18.33%) Data Engineer
4 26 (14.44%) Consultant
5 25 (13.89%) Implementation Consultant
6 17 (9.44%) SQL Developer
7 13 (7.22%) Senior
8 12 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 10 (5.56%) Architect
9 10 (5.56%) DBA
9 10 (5.56%) Payroll Consultant
10 9 (5.00%) Integration Developer
10 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) Azure Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.89%) Analyst
12 7 (3.89%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.89%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.89%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (28.89%) .NET
2 38 (21.11%) .NET Framework
3 35 (19.44%) XML
4 15 (8.33%) PySpark
4 15 (8.33%) WPF
5 14 (7.78%) JSON
5 14 (7.78%) WinForms
6 13 (7.22%) REST
7 10 (5.56%) SOAP
8 7 (3.89%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.89%) CSS
8 7 (3.89%) React
8 7 (3.89%) YAML
9 6 (3.33%) WCF
10 5 (2.78%) HTML
10 5 (2.78%) RESTful
11 4 (2.22%) .NET Core
11 4 (2.22%) ADO
11 4 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.56%) Replication
2 8 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.33%) Wiki
4 5 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.78%) NHS
5 4 (2.22%) Clustering
5 4 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.67%) Data Fabric
6 3 (1.67%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Equities
8 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.22%) Windows
2 21 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (39.44%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (31.11%) ETL
3 51 (28.33%) CI/CD
4 50 (27.78%) DevOps
5 47 (26.11%) Agile
6 45 (25.00%) Analytics
7 39 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 33 (18.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (17.78%) Migration
11 30 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 30 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (13.89%) Unit Testing
14 21 (11.67%) Data Engineering
15 19 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
17 17 (9.44%) Change Management
17 17 (9.44%) Data Governance
18 16 (8.89%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 169 (93.89%) SQL
2 60 (33.33%) C#
3 52 (28.89%) PL/SQL
4 41 (22.78%) Python
5 17 (9.44%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.67%) VBA
8 11 (6.11%) VB
9 10 (5.56%) Java
10 7 (3.89%) Bicep
10 7 (3.89%) Groovy
11 5 (2.78%) Bash
11 5 (2.78%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.67%) X++
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.33%) Degree
3 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (23.89%) QA
2 25 (13.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.56%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) MiFID
3 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Terraform
2 3 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.56%) Control-M
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 70 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 48 (26.67%) Oracle
3 30 (16.67%) Citrix
4 25 (13.89%) Databricks
5 8 (4.44%) VMware
6 3 (1.67%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.67%) Google
6 3 (1.67%) SAP
6 3 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.67%) Sybase
7 2 (1.11%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.11%) Informatica
8 1 (0.56%) Adobe
8 1 (0.56%) HP
8 1 (0.56%) Remedy
8 1 (0.56%) Sage
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) Teradata