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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 450 302
Rank change year-on-year +7 -148 -18
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 249 107 278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.32% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 0.99% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 88 208
10th Percentile £354 £313 £363
25th Percentile £404 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
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 14,147 10,836 12,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.00% 32.89% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,184 7,163 8,335
10th Percentile £363 £344 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 294 347
10th Percentile £26.51 £29.00 £27.00
25th Percentile £46.75 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £79.63 £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 18 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 18 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 +5 208 £453 +0.61% 169
London -17 120 £453 -2.05% 81
UK excluding London -47 99 £425 - 111
Work from Home -25 70 £515 +25.61% 72
North of England -31 44 £401 -11.00% 31
North West -27 31 £440 -2.22% 23
South East -42 21 £410 +9.30% 29
Scotland -12 14 £475 -32.14% 10
Yorkshire -26 13 £350 -6.67% 8
Midlands -48 9 £413 -2.94% 20
West Midlands -40 8 £413 -2.94% 18
South West -33 6 £588 +12.98% 6
Wales -16 3 £313 -38.12% 2
East of England -29 1 £425 - 11
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 29 (11.65%) IIS
2 24 (9.64%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.02%) Confluence
4 5 (2.01%) Appian
4 5 (2.01%) Camunda
4 5 (2.01%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) 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 33 (13.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.81%) OpenText MBPM
1 7 (2.81%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (2.01%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.40%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 90 (36.14%) Azure
2 80 (32.13%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.84%) AWS
6 19 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (5.22%) Power Automate
8 12 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.81%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (2.01%) Serverless
13 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.61%) GCP
13 4 (1.61%) GitHub
14 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.82%) Internet
1 12 (4.82%) SSL
2 5 (2.01%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.80%) DHCP
3 2 (0.80%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
3 2 (0.80%) LAN
3 2 (0.80%) PABX
3 2 (0.80%) VLAN
3 2 (0.80%) VoIP
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (75.10%) SQL Server
2 70 (28.11%) Power BI
3 69 (27.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (18.47%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (13.65%) Oracle Database
6 28 (11.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (7.23%) MySQL
9 12 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (4.02%) MS Access
10 10 (4.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (4.02%) Star Schema
11 9 (3.61%) OLAP
11 9 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.61%) Tableau
12 7 (2.81%) Data Lake
13 6 (2.41%) Metadata
13 6 (2.41%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.61%) Data Vault
14 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (9.64%) Git
2 11 (4.42%) Visual Studio
3 10 (4.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 9 (3.61%) JIRA
5 8 (3.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (2.81%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.81%) tSQLt
7 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) Mocha
7 3 (1.20%) MSTest
8 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.80%) GitLab
9 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.40%) Moq
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) Toad
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.31%) Finance
3 42 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.66%) Banking
5 13 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.41%) Front Office
7 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.61%) Law
8 4 (1.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Billing
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (40.56%) Developer
2 35 (14.06%) Data Engineer
3 33 (13.25%) DBA
4 32 (12.85%) SQL Developer
5 30 (12.05%) Senior
5 30 (12.05%) SQL DBA
6 28 (11.24%) Lead
7 27 (10.84%) C# Developer
8 20 (8.03%) .NET Developer
9 15 (6.02%) Microsoft Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Applications Support
11 13 (5.22%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.82%) SQL Server DBA
13 11 (4.42%) Analyst
13 11 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) Consultant
14 9 (3.61%) Software Developer
15 8 (3.21%) Lead .NET Developer
15 8 (3.21%) SQL Server Developer
16 7 (2.81%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (34.94%) .NET
2 35 (14.06%) .NET Framework
3 23 (9.24%) WinForms
4 22 (8.84%) ASP.NET
5 18 (7.23%) HTML
6 17 (6.83%) XML
7 14 (5.62%) XSLT
8 13 (5.22%) WPF
9 12 (4.82%) JSON
9 12 (4.82%) PySpark
9 12 (4.82%) REST
10 11 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (4.02%) CSS
11 10 (4.02%) React
12 9 (3.61%) WCF
12 9 (3.61%) Web Services
13 8 (3.21%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.21%) SOAP
14 7 (2.81%) SPFx
15 6 (2.41%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.24%) Replication
2 16 (6.43%) Clustering
3 15 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.81%) NHS
7 5 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.80%) Data Fabric
10 2 (0.80%) Derivative
10 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.80%) Equities
10 2 (0.80%) Handset
10 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.80%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 73 (29.32%) Windows
2 36 (14.46%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.81%) Linux
4 6 (2.41%) Unix
5 2 (0.80%) 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 (32.93%) ETL
2 80 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (26.91%) DevOps
4 63 (25.30%) Performance Tuning
5 50 (20.08%) Data Modelling
6 49 (19.68%) CI/CD
6 49 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (19.28%) Agile
7 48 (19.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (17.67%) Data Analysis
9 36 (14.46%) AI
10 31 (12.45%) Analytics
11 30 (12.05%) Migration
12 28 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (10.44%) Data Integration
14 25 (10.04%) Change Management
14 25 (10.04%) Lakehouse
14 25 (10.04%) Workflow
15 24 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 245 (98.39%) SQL
2 89 (35.74%) C#
3 69 (27.71%) PL/SQL
4 47 (18.88%) Python
5 30 (12.05%) JavaScript
5 30 (12.05%) PowerShell
6 22 (8.84%) VBA
7 15 (6.02%) VB.NET
8 13 (5.22%) VB
9 12 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (4.82%) XPath
10 8 (3.21%) VBScript
11 6 (2.41%) Java
12 3 (1.20%) Bash
12 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (11.65%) Degree
4 14 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.82%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.80%) 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 42 (16.87%) Data Quality
2 28 (11.24%) QA
3 7 (2.81%) 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 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.82%) SCOM
2 3 (1.20%) 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
1 106 (42.57%) Microsoft
2 76 (30.52%) Oracle
3 28 (11.24%) Citrix
4 18 (7.23%) Databricks
5 16 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.41%) Intapp
6 6 (2.41%) RedGate
6 6 (2.41%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.41%) Sybase
7 5 (2.01%) OpenText
8 4 (1.61%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.20%) BMC
9 3 (1.20%) Remedy
9 3 (1.20%) SYSPRO
9 3 (1.20%) Teradata
10 2 (0.80%) Google
10 2 (0.80%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.40%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.40%) QAD
11 1 (0.40%) Tradeweb