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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 347 303
Rank change year-on-year -135 -44 -39
Contract jobs citing T-SQL 121 203 327
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 1.83% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 210
10th Percentile £348 £350 £384
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.59% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £549 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.00 £16.56
25th Percentile - £45.63 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year - +175.39% -32.56%
75th Percentile - - £32.31
90th Percentile - - £41.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +213.93% -40.84%

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 11,513 11,120 13,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.36% 32.48% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,608 7,150 9,660
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 264 419
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.48 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.77% -1.73% -

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 -116 104 £415 -20.95% 85
London -36 69 £415 -27.83% 31
UK excluding London -103 36 £430 -4.44% 91
Work from Home -39 35 £456 -1.35% 87
North of England -51 15 £426 +9.94% 13
North West -33 11 £450 +9.09% 10
Wales +1 5 £600 +272.49% 3
Midlands -49 5 £550 +22.22% 9
East Midlands -16 4 £550 +54.49% 2
Yorkshire -46 4 £375 +21.60% 2
Scotland +3 3 £700 +80.65% 26
South West -7 3 £469 +10.29% 9
South East -45 3 £375 -31.82% 25
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
West Midlands -39 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 - - 6

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 16 (13.22%) IIS
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Appian
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (14.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (2.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.65%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.15%) Azure
2 24 (19.83%) Power Platform
3 22 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 21 (17.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (8.26%) AWS
7 9 (7.44%) Serverless
8 8 (6.61%) GitHub
9 7 (5.79%) Azure Functions
9 7 (5.79%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.79%) SaaS
10 6 (4.96%) AtomSphere
10 6 (4.96%) Boomi
10 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.96%) Power Automate
11 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.13%) GCP
11 5 (4.13%) Nutanix
12 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (3.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.09%) Internet
2 3 (2.48%) DHCP
2 3 (2.48%) DNS
2 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) LAN
3 1 (0.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (68.60%) SQL Server
2 32 (26.45%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (17.36%) Power BI
4 19 (15.70%) Oracle Database
4 19 (15.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (11.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (10.74%) Data Lake
7 11 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (8.26%) Relational Database
9 9 (7.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (6.61%) Metadata
11 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (4.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (4.13%) Power Query
12 5 (4.13%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.48%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.48%) DataStage
13 3 (2.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Git
2 10 (8.26%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.65%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.83%) Appium
6 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) Moq
6 1 (0.83%) NUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Pylint
6 1 (0.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 38 (31.40%) Finance
2 29 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Banking
4 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Back Office
7 3 (2.48%) Front Office
8 2 (1.65%) Advertising
8 2 (1.65%) Law
8 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (66.12%) Developer
2 25 (20.66%) C# Developer
3 18 (14.88%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.40%) .NET Developer
5 11 (9.09%) SQL Developer
6 10 (8.26%) Integration Developer
7 7 (5.79%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.79%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (5.79%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (5.79%) ETL Developer
7 7 (5.79%) Senior
7 7 (5.79%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.79%) WPF Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) DBA
8 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.13%) Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.19%) .NET
2 26 (21.49%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.57%) WPF
3 14 (11.57%) XML
4 13 (10.74%) JSON
5 12 (9.92%) WinForms
6 10 (8.26%) PySpark
6 10 (8.26%) React
6 10 (8.26%) WCF
7 9 (7.44%) REST
7 9 (7.44%) SOAP
8 8 (6.61%) Kafka
8 8 (6.61%) Web Services
9 7 (5.79%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.96%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.96%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.13%) Middleware
11 5 (4.13%) RESTful
12 4 (3.31%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.31%) NHS
4 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.48%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) IoT
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (23.14%) Windows
2 13 (10.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.71%) CI/CD
2 38 (31.40%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (31.40%) ETL
3 37 (30.58%) Agile
3 37 (30.58%) DevOps
4 34 (28.10%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (22.31%) Migration
6 26 (21.49%) Analytics
6 26 (21.49%) Data Analysis
7 25 (20.66%) Data Modelling
8 20 (16.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (14.05%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (13.22%) Data Engineering
10 16 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (12.40%) Validation
12 13 (10.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (10.74%) OOP
12 13 (10.74%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (9.92%) OO
13 12 (9.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (92.56%) SQL
2 53 (43.80%) C#
3 32 (26.45%) PL/SQL
4 29 (23.97%) Python
5 15 (12.40%) JavaScript
5 15 (12.40%) VBA
6 9 (7.44%) VB
7 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (5.79%) Java
9 6 (4.96%) Bicep
9 6 (4.96%) Groovy
10 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.48%) X++
11 1 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (15.70%) Degree
2 12 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) HP APS
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.83%) QA
2 17 (14.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) MiFID
4 3 (2.48%) EMIR
5 2 (1.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.65%) WCAG
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) HL7
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.65%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (8.26%) Terraform
2 4 (3.31%) Control-M
2 4 (3.31%) vCenter Server
3 2 (1.65%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 49 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 34 (28.10%) Oracle
3 19 (15.70%) Citrix
4 15 (12.40%) Databricks
5 9 (7.44%) VMware
6 5 (4.13%) EMC
7 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.31%) SAP
8 3 (2.48%) Atlassian
8 3 (2.48%) CQG
8 3 (2.48%) Google
8 3 (2.48%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.65%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.83%) HP
10 1 (0.83%) iManage
10 1 (0.83%) Okta
10 1 (0.83%) OpenText
10 1 (0.83%) Sybase
10 1 (0.83%) Workday