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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 461 315
Rank change year-on-year +21 -146 -20
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 253 106 265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.32% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.77% 0.97% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 88 195
10th Percentile £350 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £616
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.83% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
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 - - +44.44%

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 14,321 10,880 12,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.10% 32.97% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 7,189 8,215
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £505 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -3.90% -4.45%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.23% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 295 344
10th Percentile £26.15 £29.00 £26.06
25th Percentile £46.80 £41.25 £45.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.75 £78.38
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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -11 211 £453 +0.56% 172
London -39 122 £453 -2.05% 70
UK excluding London -38 99 £417 -1.83% 115
Work from Home -16 74 £514 +19.48% 83
North of England -26 43 £400 -2.97% 28
North West -30 30 £405 -10.00% 20
South East -50 21 £410 +9.30% 29
Scotland -16 15 £475 -32.14% 10
Yorkshire -26 13 £350 -6.67% 8
Midlands -47 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -35 8 £413 -2.94% 16
South West -35 6 £588 +12.98% 6
Wales -16 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -33 1 £425 - 19
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 28 (11.07%) IIS
2 22 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.35%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Appian
4 5 (1.98%) Camunda
4 5 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) MTS
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.77%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.98%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.36%) Azure
2 79 (31.23%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 31 (12.25%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (9.09%) AWS
6 19 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (4.74%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (3.56%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.77%) Entra ID
12 6 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.98%) GCP
13 5 (1.98%) GitHub
13 5 (1.98%) Serverless
14 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 3 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
15 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.74%) SSL
2 11 (4.35%) Internet
3 5 (1.98%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DNS
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 2 (0.79%) PABX
4 2 (0.79%) VLAN
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (75.10%) SQL Server
2 71 (28.06%) Power BI
3 67 (26.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (13.04%) Oracle Database
6 29 (11.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (7.51%) MySQL
9 13 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.95%) MS Access
11 10 (3.95%) Star Schema
12 9 (3.56%) OLAP
12 9 (3.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (3.56%) Tableau
13 7 (2.77%) Data Lake
14 6 (2.37%) Spark SQL
15 4 (1.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.58%) Data Vault
15 4 (1.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (10.67%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.95%) JIRA
3 10 (3.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (3.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.16%) tSQLt
6 7 (2.77%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.19%) GitLab
7 3 (1.19%) Mocha
7 3 (1.19%) MSTest
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.40%) Moq
9 1 (0.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.40%) Toad
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (26.88%) Finance
2 67 (26.48%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.42%) Banking
5 13 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.77%) Front Office
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.58%) Law
8 4 (1.58%) Retail
9 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Billing
10 2 (0.79%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Local Government
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (0.79%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 103 (40.71%) Developer
2 35 (13.83%) Data Engineer
2 35 (13.83%) SQL Developer
3 32 (12.65%) DBA
4 30 (11.86%) Senior
5 29 (11.46%) Lead
5 29 (11.46%) SQL DBA
6 26 (10.28%) C# Developer
7 20 (7.91%) .NET Developer
8 17 (6.72%) Applications Support
9 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) Lead Developer
11 12 (4.74%) Analyst
12 11 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) SQL Server DBA
13 9 (3.56%) Consultant
13 9 (3.56%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.56%) SQL Server Developer
14 8 (3.16%) Lead .NET Developer
15 7 (2.77%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (35.18%) .NET
2 34 (13.44%) .NET Framework
3 22 (8.70%) WinForms
4 21 (8.30%) ASP.NET
5 18 (7.11%) XML
6 17 (6.72%) HTML
7 14 (5.53%) XSLT
8 12 (4.74%) JSON
8 12 (4.74%) PySpark
8 12 (4.74%) WPF
9 11 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (4.35%) REST
10 10 (3.95%) Web Services
11 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.56%) CSS
11 9 (3.56%) React
11 9 (3.56%) SOAP
11 9 (3.56%) WCF
12 7 (2.77%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.70%) Replication
2 15 (5.93%) Clustering
3 14 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.77%) NHS
7 3 (1.19%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.19%) Derivative
7 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.19%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.79%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.79%) Equities
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 74 (29.25%) Windows
2 38 (15.02%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.16%) Linux
4 6 (2.37%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) HPUX
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.41%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (32.02%) ETL
3 67 (26.48%) DevOps
4 63 (24.90%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (20.16%) CI/CD
5 51 (20.16%) Data Modelling
6 49 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (18.58%) Agile
7 47 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (17.39%) Data Analysis
9 36 (14.23%) AI
10 32 (12.65%) Migration
11 31 (12.25%) Analytics
11 31 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (9.88%) Lakehouse
13 25 (9.88%) Workflow
14 24 (9.49%) Data Integration
15 23 (9.09%) Change Management
15 23 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 249 (98.42%) SQL
2 91 (35.97%) C#
3 66 (26.09%) PL/SQL
4 48 (18.97%) Python
5 30 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 29 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.30%) VBA
8 15 (5.93%) VB.NET
9 12 (4.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.74%) VB
9 12 (4.74%) XPath
10 8 (3.16%) VBScript
11 7 (2.77%) Java
12 5 (1.98%) Bash
13 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.79%) Scala
15 1 (0.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.40%) R
15 1 (0.40%) Tcl
15 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.46%) Degree
4 14 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.74%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) CISA
8 1 (0.40%) CISSP
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.00%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.67%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.74%) SCOM
2 3 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.40%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 107 (42.29%) Microsoft
2 74 (29.25%) Oracle
3 27 (10.67%) Citrix
4 19 (7.51%) Databricks
5 16 (6.32%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.37%) Intapp
6 6 (2.37%) RedGate
6 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.37%) Sybase
7 5 (1.98%) OpenText
8 4 (1.58%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.19%) Google
9 3 (1.19%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.19%) Teradata
10 2 (0.79%) BMC
10 2 (0.79%) eFront
10 2 (0.79%) NetCracker
10 2 (0.79%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.40%) Tradeweb