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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 429 346
Rank change year-on-year +35 -83 -49
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 272 110 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.35% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 1.03% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 87 194
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £703 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £411 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.10% -8.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £6.57
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -82.56%
75th Percentile £27.50 £34.38 £9.14
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.96 £7.85
% change year-on-year -25.67% +319.87% -87.36%

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 13,981 10,688 13,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.85% 33.58% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,074 7,205 9,329
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 537 255 536
10th Percentile £34.01 £27.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £78.22 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 7 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 7 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 +32 246 £453 -9.40% 73
London -18 131 £490 -5.77% 30
UK excluding London -33 115 £411 +2.78% 55
Work from Home -18 71 £525 -11.95% 46
South East -15 51 £405 +15.71% 20
North of England -42 40 £405 +8.00% 19
North West -23 27 £403 +1.96% 12
Yorkshire -40 13 £450 +20.00% 6
South West -28 7 £425 -18.27% 5
Midlands -61 5 £400 -5.88% 5
Scotland -15 4 £475 +18.75% 3
West Midlands -59 4 £400 -5.88% 3
East of England - 4 £211 - 5
Wales -17 3 £313 +53.00%
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 26 (9.56%) IIS
2 15 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.94%) Confluence
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.84%) Appian
5 5 (1.84%) Camunda
6 3 (1.10%) Apache
6 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) Mule
8 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 49 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) OpenText MBPM
1 6 (2.21%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.84%) Elite 3E
3 4 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.10%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.37%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 91 (33.46%) Azure
2 80 (29.41%) Power Platform
3 36 (13.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (10.29%) AWS
5 26 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (4.41%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.68%) Serverless
8 9 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.57%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.21%) GitHub
11 4 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.04%) Internet
2 5 (1.84%) SSL
3 4 (1.47%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (67.65%) SQL Server
2 68 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 67 (24.63%) Power BI
4 51 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (15.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 33 (12.13%) Oracle Database
7 28 (10.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 20 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (5.88%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.78%) MySQL
10 13 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.94%) OLAP
12 7 (2.57%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
13 6 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 6 (2.21%) Tableau
14 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.84%) Metadata
14 5 (1.84%) MS Access
14 5 (1.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (6.99%) Git
2 11 (4.04%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 8 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (2.57%) JIRA
6 6 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.21%) Mocha
6 6 (2.21%) MSTest
6 6 (2.21%) tSQLt
7 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.37%) ERwin
8 1 (0.37%) GitLab
8 1 (0.37%) Moq
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
General
1 75 (27.57%) Finance
2 68 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.81%) Banking
4 39 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.84%) Legal
7 5 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Advertising
9 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Law
9 3 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (40.07%) Developer
2 40 (14.71%) SQL Developer
3 38 (13.97%) Data Engineer
4 35 (12.87%) C# Developer
4 35 (12.87%) Consultant
5 28 (10.29%) Implementation Consultant
6 27 (9.93%) DBA
7 24 (8.82%) Senior
7 24 (8.82%) SQL DBA
8 22 (8.09%) Microsoft Engineer
9 20 (7.35%) .NET Developer
10 16 (5.88%) Lead
11 13 (4.78%) Payroll Consultant
12 12 (4.41%) Analyst
13 10 (3.68%) SQL Server DBA
14 9 (3.31%) Database Developer
15 8 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
15 8 (2.94%) Workflow Consultant
16 7 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (2.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (30.51%) .NET
2 43 (15.81%) .NET Framework
2 43 (15.81%) XML
3 17 (6.25%) REST
4 16 (5.88%) CSS
4 16 (5.88%) HTML
4 16 (5.88%) WinForms
5 15 (5.51%) ASP.NET
6 13 (4.78%) JSON
6 13 (4.78%) PySpark
6 13 (4.78%) React
7 12 (4.41%) WPF
8 11 (4.04%) RESTful
9 9 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.31%) XSLT
10 8 (2.94%) SOAP
10 8 (2.94%) SPFx
11 7 (2.57%) Web Services
12 6 (2.21%) jQuery
12 6 (2.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.25%) Replication
2 16 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (5.15%) Clustering
4 11 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.31%) NHS
6 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.21%) Wiki
7 5 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.10%) Equities
9 3 (1.10%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.74%) Derivative
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.37%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.37%) Life Science
11 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.59%) Windows
2 28 (10.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.94%) Linux
4 4 (1.47%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) HPUX
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.82%) Business Intelligence
1 92 (33.82%) ETL
2 59 (21.69%) Agile
2 59 (21.69%) DevOps
3 57 (20.96%) Performance Tuning
4 51 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (18.01%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.01%) Data Modelling
6 48 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (15.81%) Analytics
7 43 (15.81%) Data Analysis
8 42 (15.44%) Migration
9 33 (12.13%) AI
9 33 (12.13%) Workflow
10 32 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (9.93%) Unit Testing
13 25 (9.19%) Change Management
13 25 (9.19%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.46%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 267 (98.16%) SQL
2 88 (32.35%) C#
3 70 (25.74%) PL/SQL
4 51 (18.75%) Python
5 31 (11.40%) PowerShell
6 29 (10.66%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (5.51%) VBA
9 12 (4.41%) VB
10 10 (3.68%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.57%) XPath
12 6 (2.21%) Bash
12 6 (2.21%) Bicep
12 6 (2.21%) Java
13 4 (1.47%) VBScript
14 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) R
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (9.93%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.46%) Degree
2 23 (8.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.84%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.81%) QA
2 40 (14.71%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.21%) GDPR
4 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.21%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) SCOM
3 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.10%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Control-M
5 1 (0.37%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 110 (40.44%) Microsoft
2 64 (23.53%) Oracle
3 34 (12.50%) Citrix
4 18 (6.62%) Databricks
5 10 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.84%) Intapp
6 5 (1.84%) OpenText
6 5 (1.84%) Sybase
6 5 (1.84%) VMware
7 4 (1.47%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.47%) Remedy
8 3 (1.10%) BMC
8 3 (1.10%) Google
8 3 (1.10%) RedGate
8 3 (1.10%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.10%) SYSPRO
9 2 (0.74%) NetCracker
10 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.37%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk